Andrzej P. Kwater, M.D.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Kwater, AP, Grant, MC, Gan, TJ. Magnesium and Its Emerging Role in Perioperative Pain Management. Anesthesia and analgesia 140(1):51-53, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39680990.
2. Boyev A, Popat K, Gottumukkala VNR, Kwater AP, Chiang YJ, Prakash LR, Newhook TE, Arvide EM, Dewhurst WL, Bruno ML, Van Meter A, Hancher-Hodges S, Ghebremichael S, Williams U, Donahue H, Soliz J, Tzeng CD. Postoperative pain scores and opioid use after standard bupivacaine vs. liposomal bupivacaine regional blocks for abdominal cancer surgery: A propensity score matched study. Am J Surg 237, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38789322.
3. Lumsden, S, Kharasch, ED, Speer, BB, Kwater, AP, Gan, TJ, Cata, JP. Intraoperative Methadone Administration Is Not Associated with an Increase in Perioperative Use of Naloxone. Anesthesia and analgesia 138(5):1145-1147, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38195080.
4. Kwater, AP, Sen, S, De Haan, JB, Ge, M, Kim, AM, Hernandez, N. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous cryoneurolysis for management of acute sternal fracture pain. Trauma Case Reports 43, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36636466.
5. Sen, S, Haan D, JB, Guvernator, G, Kwater, AP, Langridge, XT, Freet, DJ, Ge, M, Hernandez, N. Lumbosacral paraspinal interfascial plane blocks for pain control after feminizing genital gender affirmation surgery. Pain Management 11(3):277-286, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33533275.
6. Kwater, AP, Hernandez, N, Artime, C, De Haan, JB. Interscalene block for analgesia in orthopedic treatment of shoulder trauma. Local and Regional Anesthesia 14:167-178, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34908874.
7. Kwater, AP, Hernandez, N, Artime, C, Haan D, JB. Interscalene Block for Analgesia in Orthopedic Treatment of Shoulder Trauma: Single-Dose Liposomal Bupivacaine versus Perineural Catheter. Local and Regional Anesthesia 14:167-178, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
8. Bradley, SL, Kwater, AP, Cooke, JM, Pivalizza, CM, Zhang, X, Sridhar, S, Gumbert, SD, Pivalizza, EG. Comparison of temporal artery temperature and bladder temperature in the post anesthesia care unit. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 32(4):502-504, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31656405.
9. Schumann, R, Kwater, AP, Pivalizza, EG, Gumbert, SD, Bonney, I, Gupta, A, Ladd, D, Kim, J. Respiratory volume monitoring in an obese surgical population and the prediction of postoperative respiratory depression by the STOP-bang OSA risk score. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 34:295-301, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27687395.

Abstracts

1. Liao, J, Kwater, A, Avila, N, Khan, S. Postoperative Genicular Nerve Blocks for Rescue Analgesia of Intractable Periarticular Knee Pain in Trauma Setting. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
2. Kolcun, G, Sen, S, Kwater, AP, Cooke, J, Haan D, JB, Hernandez, N. Erector Spinae Plane Catheters for Postoperative Analgesia Following Fragility Hip Fracture Surgery: A Pilot Study. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
3. Aranke, M, Sen, S, Ge, M, Haan D, JB, Kwater, AP, Hernandez, N, Langridge, XT. A Novel Technique for Opioid De-escalation: Brachial Plexus Cryoneurolysis to Treat Acute on Chronic Upper Extremity Pain. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
4. Wrobleski, I, Hernandez, N, Kwater, A, Haan D, JB, Sen, S, Cooke, J, Khan, S. Pain Management following Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Regional Interventions for Prolonged Analgesia. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
5. Swift, M, Sen, S, Haan D, JB, Ge, M, Kwater, AP, Hernandez, N. Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Intercostal Cryoneurolysis for Acute on Chronic Pain in CLOVES Disease. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
6. Cooke, J, Kwater, A, Haan D, JB, Hernandez, N. Management of Entrapped Indwelling Perineural Femoral Catheter after Above Knee Amputation. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
7. Kwater, A, Hernandez, N, Haan D, JB, Ge, M, Sen, S, Cooke, J, Khan, S, Chaudry, R. Cryoneurolysis: The Future of Acute Pain Management for Sternal Fractures. American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
8. Kwater, A, Hernandez, N, Haan D, JB, Reskallah, A, Shoham, D. Thoracic Erector Spinae Plane Block for Liver Transplant in Setting of Acute Coagulopathy. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
9. Kwater, A, Zavala, A, Dangler, LA, Brown, JK, Owusu-Agyemang, P, Caplan, LA, Chau, TP, Chapman, CK. Difficult Airway Management Following Glossectomy with Protruding Necrotic Neck Mass. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
10. Kwater, A, Haan D, JB, Artime, C, Hernandez, N. Continuous Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Surgery: Catheter versus Liposomal Bupivacaine. American Society of Regional Anesthesia, (ASRA) Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
11. Pivalizza, E, Haan D, JB, Kwater, A, Cooke, J, Poi, T, Ruggles, P, Michael. Evaluation of Initial Aprepitant Use as a Rescue Anti-Emetic in PACU. International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Annual Meeting, Session 752, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
12. Bradley, SL, Kwater, AP, Cooke, JM, Tovar, A, DeBeaux, AC, Wu, H, Sridhar, S, Gumbert, SD, Chappell, A, Pivalizza, EG. Is Skin Temperature Measurement in PACU as Accurate Reflection of Core Temperature. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
13. Schumann, R, MacNabb, CM, AL Hassan AL, Q, Bonney, I, Kwater, AP, Shoham, D, Pivalizza, EG. Accuracy and Clinical Relevance of Non-Invasive Respiratory Volume Measurements in Obese Surgical Patients. Anesth Analg 118:S-315, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
14. Schumann, R, Brayanov, J, Gupta, A, Kwater AP, Bonney, I, Howell, CB, Pivalizaza, EG. Association of Stop-Bang Scores or OSA Diagnosis with Postoperative Apnea and Minute Ventilation in an Obese Surgical Population Using Respiratory Volume Monitoring in the PACU. Anesth Analg 118:S-242, 2014. e-Pub 2014.