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Franklin Dexter, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor


Contact Information
Job Description: Director, Operations Research
Division: Anesthesia Research
Office Address: 6505-3 JCP
Phone Number: (319) 621-6360

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Education
Undergraduate
  • Sc.B. Applied Mathematics-Biology with Honors, Brown University, 1985
Graduate
  • M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1988
  • Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1989
Medical School
  • Case Western Reserve University, 1990
Residency
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Awards
  • Academic Achievement Award in Biology and Medicine, 1985
  • Rohn Truell Memorial Premium in Applied Mathematics, 1985
  • Sigma Chi (Scientific Honor Society), 1985
  • Alpha Omega Alpha (Medical Honor Society), 1990
Appointments
  • University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1994 to present
Additional
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Publications
  1. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Numerous studies have considered opportunity costs of operating time. Surgery 2009 Oct 26


  2. Dexter F, Bayman EO, Epstein RH: Statistical Modeling of Average and Variability of Time to Extubation for Meta-Analysis Comparing Desflurane to Sevoflurane. Anesth Analg 2009 Oct 9


  3. O'Neill L, Dexter F, Wachtel RE: Should anesthesia groups advocate funding of clinics and scheduling systems to increase operating room workload? Anesthesiology 2009 Oct 8


  4. Dexter F, Wachtel RE: Analysing day-of-surgery cancellation rates. Anaesth Intensive Care 2009 Sep 25


  5. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Elgart RL, Ledolter J: Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists. Anesth Analg 2009 Sep 19


  6. Dexter F, Marcon E, Aker J, Epstein RH: Numbers of simultaneous turnovers calculated from anesthesia or operating room information management system data. Anesth Analg 2009 Aug 20


  7. Dexter F, Marcon E, Xie X: Operational research applied to health services 2007 special issue. Health Care Manag Sci 2009 May 28


  8. Pandit JJ, Dexter F: Lack of sensitivity of staffing for 8-hour sessions to standard deviation in daily actual hours of operating room time used for surgeons with long queues. Anesth Analg 2009 May 19


  9. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Reducing tardiness from scheduled start times by making adjustments to the operating room schedule. Anesth Analg 2009 May 19


  10. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Influence of the operating room schedule on tardiness from scheduled start times. Anesth Analg 2009 May 19


  11. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Reducing surgical patient fasting times. AORN J 2009 May 9


  12. Masursky D, Dexter F, Garver MP, Nussmeier NA: Incentive payments to academic anesthesiologists for late afternoon work did not influence turnover times. Anesth Analg 2009 Apr 18


  13. Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Dow AJ: Growth rates in pediatric diagnostic imaging and sedation. Anesth Analg 2009 Apr 18


  14. Rosen AC, Dexter F: Lessons from evidence-based operating room management in balancing the needs for efficient, effective and ethical healthcare. Am J Bioeth 2009 Mar 28


  15. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Typical savings from each minute reduction in tardy first case of the day starts. Anesth Analg 2009 Mar 21


  16. Dexter EU, Dexter F, Masursky D, Garver MP, Nussmeier NA: Both bias and lack of knowledge influence organizational focus on first case of the day starts. Anesth Analg 2009 Mar 21


  17. Epstein RH, Dexter F, Ehrenfeld JM, Sandberg WS: Implications of event entry latency on anesthesia information management decision support systems. Anesth Analg 2009 Feb 20


  18. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Lee JD, Ledolter J: Automatic updating of times remaining in surgical cases using bayesian analysis of historical case duration data and "instant messaging" updates from anesthesia providers. Anesth Analg 2009 Feb 20


  19. Dexter F, Birchansky L, Bernstein JM, Wachtel RE: Case scheduling preferences of one Surgeon's cataract surgery patients. Anesth Analg 2009 Jan 20


  20. Masursky D, Dexter F, Nussmeier NA: Operating room nursing directors' influence on anesthesia group operating room productivity. Anesth Analg 2008 Nov 21


  21. Dexter F, O'Neill L, Xin L, Ledolter J: Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty. Health Care Manag Sci 2008 Nov 13


  22. Macario A, Dexter F, Sypal J, Cosgriff N, Heniford BT: Operative time and other outcomes of the electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system (LigaSure) versus other methods for surgical hemostasis: a meta-analysis. Surg Innov 2008 Oct 24


  23. Epstein RH, Dexter F, Piotrowski E: Automated correction of room location errors in anesthesia information management systems. Anesth Analg 2008 Aug 21


  24. Dexter F: Quotation from article about anesthesia providers' activities during ophthalmology cases. Anesthesiology 2008 Mar 26


  25. Dexter F, Dexter EU, Masursky D, Nussmeier NA: Systematic review of general thoracic surgery articles to identify predictors of operating room case durations. Anesth Analg 2008 Mar 20


  26. Masursky D, Dexter F, O'Leary CE, Applegeet C, Nussmeier NA: Long-term forecasting of anesthesia workload in operating rooms from changes in a hospital's local population can be inaccurate. Anesth Analg 2008 Mar 20


  27. Masursky D, Dexter F, McCartney CJ, Isaacson SA, Nussmeier NA: Predicting orthopedic surgeons' preferences for peripheral nerve blocks for their patients. Anesth Analg 2008 Jan 30


  28. Xiao Y, Dexter F, Hu P, Dutton RP: The use of distributed displays of operating room video when real-time occupancy status was available. Anesth Analg 2008 Jan 30


  29. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Calculating institutional support that benefits both the anesthesia group and hospital. Anesth Analg 2008 Jan 30


  30. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Tactical increases in operating room block time for capacity planning should not be based on utilization. Anesth Analg 2008 Jan 1


  31. LeGrand SA, Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Weeks JB, Todd MM: Craniocervical motion during direct laryngoscopy and orotracheal intubation with the Macintosh and Miller blades: an in vivo cinefluoroscopic study. Anesthesiology 2007 Nov 29


  32. Dexter F, Xiao Y, Dow AJ, Strader MM, Ho D, Wachtel RE: Coordination of appointments for anesthesia care outside of operating rooms using an enterprise-wide scheduling system. Anesth Analg 2007 Nov 29


  33. Dexter F, Wachtel RE: Patient waiting time matters when filling a pod of operating rooms. Arch Surg 2007 Nov 21


  34. Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Epstein RH, McIntosh C, O'Neill L: Allocative efficiency vs technical efficiency in operating room management. Anaesthesia 2007 Nov 10


  35. Dexter F: Why calculating PACU staffing is so hard and why/how operations research specialists can help. J Perianesth Nurs 2007 Nov 7


  36. Dexter F: Detecting diversion of anesthetic drugs by providers. Anesth Analg 2007 Sep 28


  37. LeGrand SA, Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Moss LG, Todd MM: Reliability of a telephone-based Glasgow Outcome Scale assessment using a structured interview in a heterogenous population of patients and examiners. J Neurotrauma 2007 Sep 26


  38. Dexter F: Measuring the frequency of delays in admission into the PACU. J Perianesth Nurs 2007 Aug 2


  39. Dexter F, Willemsen-Dunlap A, Lee JD: Operating room managerial decision-making on the day of surgery with and without computer recommendations and status displays. Anesth Analg 2007 Jul 25


  40. Dexter F, Lee JD, Dow AJ, Lubarsky DA: A psychological basis for anesthesiologists' operating room managerial decision-making on the day of surgery. Anesth Analg 2007 Jul 25


  41. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: A simple method for deciding when patients should be ready on the day of surgery without procedure-specific data. Anesth Analg 2007 Jun 21


  42. Marcon E, Dexter F: An observational study of surgeons' sequencing of cases and its impact on postanesthesia care unit and holding area staffing requirements at hospitals. Anesth Analg 2007 Jun 21


  43. Dexter F: Bed management displays to optimize patient flow from the OR to the PACU. J Perianesth Nurs 2007 Jun 5


  44. Dexter F, Macario A, Ledolter J: Identification of systematic underestimation (bias) of case durations during case scheduling would not markedly reduce overutilized operating room time. J Clin Anesth 2007 May 29


  45. Wachtel RE, Dexter EU, Dexter F: Application of a similarity index to state discharge abstract data to identify opportunities for growth of surgical and anesthesia practices. Anesth Analg 2007 Apr 26


  46. Dexter F: Reductions in non-operative times, not increases in operating room efficiency. Surgery 2007 Mar 27


  47. O'Sullivan CT, Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Vigoda MM: Evidence-based management assessment of return on investment from anesthesia information management systems. AANA J 2007 Feb 20


  48. Dexter F: Impact on operating room efficiency of reducing turnover times and anesthesia-controlled times. Ann Surg 2007 Jan 25


  49. Dexter F: Prior work using meta-analyses of operative times between regional and general anesthesia. Anesth Analg 2007 Jan 24


  50. O'Neill L, Dexter F: Tactical increases in operating room block time based on financial data and market growth estimates from data envelopment analysis. Anesth Analg 2007 Jan 24


  51. Dexter F, Weih LS, Gustafson RK, Stegura LF, Oldenkamp MJ, Wachtel RE: Observational study of operating room times for knee and hip replacement surgery at nine U.S. community hospitals. Health Care Manag Sci 2006 Dec 26


  52. McIntosh C, Dexter F, Epstein RH: The impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: a tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesth Analg 2006 Nov 24


  53. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Holiday and weekend operating room on-call staffing requirements. Anesth Analg 2006 Nov 24


  54. Dexter F, Davis M, Egger Halbeis CB, Halbeis CE, Marjamaa R, Marty J, McIntosh C, Nakata Y, Thenuwara KN, Sawa T, Vigoda M: Mean operating room times differ by 50% among hospitals in different countries for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and lung lobectomy. J Anesth 2006 Oct 31


  55. Dexter F: Prior research in measuring financial differences among surgical specialties and using such differences in decision making. Ann Surg 2006 Oct 25


  56. Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Epstein RH: Impact of average patient acuity on staffing of the phase I PACU. J Perianesth Nurs 2006 Oct 10


  57. Dexter F: Operating room utilization: information management systems. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2006 Oct 6


  58. Dexter F, Wachtel RE: Economic, educational, and policy perspectives on the preincision operating room period. Anesth Analg 2006 Sep 27


  59. Dexter F, Wachtel RE: Should evaluation of surgeons based on total hospital costs have considered operating room times? J Am Coll Surg 2006 Aug 26


  60. Dexter F, Macario A, Cowen DS: Staffing and case scheduling for anesthesia in geographically dispersed locations outside of operating rooms. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2006 Jul 11


  61. O'Sullivan CT, Dexter F: Assigning surgical cases with regional anesthetic blocks to anesthetists and operating rooms based on operating room efficiency. AANA J 2006 Jun 22


  62. Dexter F: A researcher responds to block FAQs. OR Manager 2006 May 26


  63. Dexter F, Yue JC, Dow AJ: Predicting anesthesia times for diagnostic and interventional radiological procedures. Anesth Analg 2006 Apr 25


  64. Marcon E, Dexter F: Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing. Health Care Manag Sci 2006 Apr 15


  65. Macario A, Chow JL, Dexter F: A Markov computer simulation model of the economics of neuromuscular blockade in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2006 Mar 17


  66. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Operating room efficiency and scheduling. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2006 Mar 15


  67. O'Neill L, Dexter F: Methods for understanding super-efficient data envelopment analysis results with an application to hospital inpatient surgery. Health Care Manag Sci 2005 Dec 29


  68. Dexter F, Ledolter J: Bayesian prediction bounds and comparisons of operating room times even for procedures with few or no historic data. Anesthesiology 2005 Nov 25


  69. Dexter F, Macario A, Epstein RH, Ledolter J: Validity and usefulness of a method to monitor surgical services' average bias in scheduled case durations. Can J Anaesth 2005 Oct 28


  70. Xiao Y, Hu P, Hu H, Ho D, Dexter F, Mackenzie CF, Seagull FJ, Dutton RP: An algorithm for processing vital sign monitoring data to remotely identify operating room occupancy in real-time. Anesth Analg 2005 Aug 24


  71. Dexter F: Deciding whether your hospital can apply clinical trial results of strategies to increase productivity by reducing anesthesia and turnover times. Anesthesiology 2005 Jul 30


  72. Dexter F, Marcon E, Epstein RH, Ledolter J: Validation of statistical methods to compare cancellation rates on the day of surgery. Anesth Analg 2005 Jul 23


  73. Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Lubarsky DA: Financial implications of a hospital's specialization in rare physiologically complex surgical procedures. Anesthesiology 2005 Jun 29


  74. Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Sohn MW, Ledolter J, Dexter EU, Macario A: Quantifying effect of a hospital's caseload for a surgical specialty on that of another hospital using multi-attribute market segments. Health Care Manag Sci 2005 Jun 15


  75. Dexter F: Scheduling a delay between 2 surgeons. OR Manager 2005 Jun 11


  76. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marcon E, Ledolter J: Estimating the incidence of prolonged turnover times and delays by time of day. Anesthesiology 2005 May 26


  77. Dexter F: How do we sequence urgent cases? OR Manager 2005 Apr 29


  78. Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wachtel RE: Tactical decision making for selective expansion of operating room resources incorporating financial criteria and uncertainty in subspecialties' future workloads. Anesth Analg 2005 Apr 23


  79. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marcon E, de Matta R: Strategies to reduce delays in admission into a postanesthesia care unit from operating rooms. J Perianesth Nurs 2005 Apr 5


  80. O'Neill L, Dexter F: Market capture of inpatient perioperative services using DEA. Health Care Manag Sci 2005 Feb 19


  81. Freytag S, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Kugler C, Schnettler R: [Allocating and scheduling operating room time] Chirurg 2005 Jan 20


  82. Kanter RK, Dexter F: Criteria for identification of comprehensive pediatric hospitals and referral regions. J Pediatr 2005 Jan 13


  83. Macario A, Dexter F, Lubarsky D: Meta-analysis of trials comparing postoperative recovery after anesthesia with sevoflurane or desflurane. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2005 Jan 1


  84. Dexter F, Lubarsky DA: Using length of stay data from a hospital to evaluate whether limiting elective surgery at the hospital is an inappropriate decision. J Clin Anesth 2004 Nov 30


  85. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y: Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 2004 Nov 27


  86. Dexter F, O'Neill L: Data envelopment analysis to determine by how much hospitals can increase elective inpatient surgical workload for each specialty. Anesth Analg 2004 Oct 27


  87. Wachtel RE, Dexter F: Differentiating among hospitals performing physiologically complex operative procedures in the elderly. Anesthesiology 2004 May 29


  88. Dexter F, Brown DL: Financial disclosure. Anesth Analg 2004 May 25


  89. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Abouleish AE, Whitten CW, Lubarsky DA: Impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs. Anesth Analg 2004 Feb 26


  90. Dexter F, Macario A: When to release allocated operating room time to increase operating room efficiency. Anesth Analg 2004 Feb 26


  91. Abouleish AE, Dexter F, Whitten CW, Zavaleta JR, Prough DS: Quantifying net staffing costs due to longer-than-average surgical case durations. Anesthesiology 2004 Jan 24


  92. Dexter F, Abouleish AE, Epstein RH, Whitten CW, Lubarsky DA: Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs. Anesth Analg 2003 Sep 23


  93. Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Yue JC: Use of discharge abstract databases to differentiate among pediatric hospitals based on operative procedures: surgery in infants and young children in the state of Iowa. Anesthesiology 2003 Jul 29


  94. Dexter F, Ledolter J: Managing risk and expected financial return from selective expansion of operating room capacity: mean-variance analysis of a hospital's portfolio of surgeons. Anesth Analg 2003 Jun 24


  95. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Scheduling of cases in an ambulatory center. Anesthesiol Clin North America 2003 Jun 19


  96. Dexter F, Smith TC, Tatman DJ, Macario A: Physicians' perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet-based survey of the membership of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (AACD). J Clin Anesth 2003 May 29


  97. Dexter F, Murphy M, Cline R, Anderson K, Ramsey R, Pankratz B: How is block time reviewed and revised? Part 3. OR Manager 2003 May 2


  98. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD, Lubarsky DA: Operating room utilization alone is not an accurate metric for the allocation of operating room block time to individual surgeons with low caseloads. Anesthesiology 2003 Apr 30


  99. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Optimizing second shift OR staffing. AORN J 2003 Apr 23


  100. Abouleish AE, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Lubarsky DA, Whitten CW, Prough DS: Labor costs incurred by anesthesiology groups because of operating rooms not being allocated and cases not being scheduled to maximize operating room efficiency. Anesth Analg 2003 Mar 26


  101. Dexter F, Traub RD, Qian F: Comparison of statistical methods to predict the time to complete a series of surgical cases. J Clin Monit Comput 2003 Feb 13


  102. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD: Optimal sequencing of urgent surgical cases. Scheduling cases using operating room information systems. J Clin Monit Comput 2003 Feb 6


  103. Dexter F, Traub RD, Macario A: How to release allocated operating room time to increase efficiency: predicting which surgical service will have the most underutilized operating room time. Anesth Analg 2003 Jan 23


  104. Epstein RH, Dexter F: Uncertainty in knowing the operating rooms in which cases were performed has little effect on operating room allocations or efficiency. Anesth Analg 2002 Nov 29


  105. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marsh HM: Costs and risks of weekend anesthesia staffing at 6 independently managed surgical suites. AANA J 2002 Nov 12


  106. Bell EA, Jones BP, Olufolabi AJ, Dexter F, Phillips-Bute B, Greengrass RA, Penning DH, Reynolds JD: Iliohypogastric-ilioinguinal peripheral nerve block for post-Cesarean delivery analgesia decreases morphine use but not opioid-related side effects. Can J Anaesth 2002 Aug 24


  107. Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Blake JT: Sampling error can significantly affect measured hospital financial performance of surgeons and resulting operating room time allocations. Anesth Analg 2002 Jun 29


  108. Dexter F, Macario A, Penning DH, Chung P: Development of an appropriate list of surgical procedures of a specified maximum anesthetic complexity to be performed at a new ambulatory surgery facility. Anesth Analg 2002 Jun 29


  109. Dexter F, Traub RD, Fleisher LA, Rock P: What sample sizes are required for pooling surgical case durations among facilities to decrease the incidence of procedures with little historical data? Anesthesiology 2002 May 1


  110. Dexter F, Macario A: Changing allocations of operating room time from a system based on historical utilization to one where the aim is to schedule as many surgical cases as possible. Anesth Analg 2002 Apr 26


  111. Epstein RH, Dexter F, Traub RD: Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify PACU staffing to minimize delays in admission from ORs. J Perianesth Nurs 2002 Apr 2


  112. Dexter F, Traub RD: How to schedule elective surgical cases into specific operating rooms to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time. Anesth Analg 2002 Mar 28


  113. Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Sloan B, Chung P, Lubarsky DA: Use of linear programming to estimate impact of changes in a hospital's operating room time allocation on perioperative variable costs. Anesthesiology 2002 Mar 2


  114. Epstein RH, Dexter F: Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify operating room staffing solutions to reduce labor costs and increase productivity. Anesth Analg 2002 Feb 28


  115. Macario A, Dexter F: What are the most important risk factors for a patient's developing intraoperative hypothermia? Anesth Analg 2002 Jan 5


  116. Blake JT, Dexter F, Donald J: Operating room managers' use of integer programming for assigning block time to surgical groups: a case study. Anesth Analg 2002 Jan 5


  117. Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA: Calculating a potential increase in hospital margin for elective surgery by changing operating room time allocations or increasing nursing staffing to permit completion of more cases: a case study. Anesth Analg 2002 Jan 5


  118. Dexter F, Thompson E: Relative value guide basic units in operating room scheduling to ensure compliance with anesthesia group policies for surgical procedures performed at each anesthetizing location. AANA J 2002 Jan 5


  119. Hindman BJ, Moore SA, Cutkomp J, Smith T, Ross-Barta SE, Dexter F, Brian JE: Brain expression of inducible cyclooxygenase 2 messenger RNA in rats undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. Anesthesiology 2001 Dec 19


  120. Dexter F, O'Neill L: Weekend operating room on call staffing requirements. AORN J 2001 Dec 1


  121. Dexter F, Epstein RH: Reducing family members' anxiety while waiting on the day of surgery: systematic review of studies and implications of HIPAA health information privacy rules. J Clin Anesth 2001 Nov 13


  122. Macario A, Dexter F, Traub RD: Hospital profitability per hour of operating room time can vary among surgeons. Anesth Analg 2001 Aug 29


  123. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marsh HM: A statistical analysis of weekday operating room anesthesia group staffing costs at nine independently managed surgical suites. Anesth Analg 2001 May 29


  124. Dexter F, Penning DH, Traub RD: Statistical analysis by Monte-Carlo simulation of the impact of administrative and medical delays in discharge from the postanesthesia care unit on total patient care hours. Anesth Analg 2001 Apr 27


  125. Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA: The impact on revenue of increasing patient volume at surgical suites with relatively high operating room utilization. Anesth Analg 2001 Apr 27


  126. Dexter F, Macario A: Optimal number of beds and occupancy to minimize staffing costs in an obstetrical unit? Can J Anaesth 2001 Apr 18


  127. Dexter F, Epstein RH, Penning DH: Statistical analysis of postanesthesia care unit staffing at a surgical suite with frequent delays in admission from the operating room--a case study. Anesth Analg 2001 Mar 29


  128. Dexter F, Traub RD, Lebowitz P: Scheduling a delay between different surgeons' cases in the same operating room on the same day using upper prediction bounds for case durations. Anesth Analg 2001 Mar 29


  129. Dexter F: Managing cases in the afternoon. OR Manager 2001 Mar 27


  130. Dexter F, Gan TJ, Naguib M, Lubarsky DA: Cost identification analysis for succinylcholine. Anesth Analg 2001 Feb 28


  131. Dexter F: Science of OR management. 'Ideal' utilization is the wrong quest. OR Manager 2001 Jan 6


  132. Dexter F: Science of OR management. Sequencing of elective surgical cases. OR Manager 2001 Jan 6


  133. Dexter F, Traub RD: The lack of systematic month-to-month variation over one-year periods in ambulatory surgery caseload -application to anesthesia staffing. Anesth Analg 2000 Nov 30


  134. Dexter F: Efficient method to schedule surgery. OR Manager 2000 Nov 7


  135. Dexter F: Efficient scheduling of OR cases. OR Manager 2000 Nov 7


  136. Dexter F, Traub RD: Statistical method for predicting when patients should be ready on the day of surgery. Anesthesiology 2000 Oct 6


  137. Dexter F: A strategy to decide whether to move the last case of the day in an operating room to another empty operating room to decrease overtime labor costs. Anesth Analg 2000 Sep 27


  138. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD: Enterprise-wide patient scheduling information systems to coordinate surgical clinic and operating room scheduling can impair operating room efficiency. Anesth Analg 2000 Aug 29


  139. Epstein RH, Dexter F: Economic analysis of linking operating room scheduling and hospital material management information systems for just-in-time inventory control. Anesth Analg 2000 Jul 27


  140. Dexter F, Traub RD: Determining staffing requirements for a second shift of anesthetists by graphical analysis of data from operating room information systems. AANA J 2000 Jul 6


  141. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD: Statistical method using operating room information system data to determine anesthetist weekend call requirements. AANA J 2000 Jul 6


  142. Dexter F, Macario A: What is the relative frequency of uncommon ambulatory surgery procedures performed in the United States with an anesthesia provider? Anesth Analg 2000 May 29


  143. Macario A, Glenn D, Dexter F: What can the postanesthesia care unit manager do to decrease costs in the postanesthesia care unit? J Perianesth Nurs 2000 May 29


  144. Macario A, Dexter F: Effect of compensation and patient scheduling on OR labor costs. AORN J 2000 May 12


  145. Dexter F: Why try to reduce turnover time? OR Manager 2000 May 2


  146. Reynolds JD, Grubbs EG, Dexter F, Punnahitananda S, Dense TA, Penning DH: Acute cord occlusion increases blood ionized magnesium concentration in preterm fetal sheep during maternal magnesium sulfate exposure. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2000 Apr 20


  147. Dexter F, Macario A, O'Neill L: Scheduling surgical cases into overflow block time- computer simulation of the effects of scheduling strategies on operating room labor costs. Anesth Analg 2000 Mar 29


  148. Dexter F, Traub RD: Sequencing cases in the operating room: predicting whether one surgical case will last longer than another. Anesth Analg 2000 Mar 29


  149. Mackensen GB, Nellgård B, Sarraf-Yazdi S, Dexter F, Steffen RP, Grocott HP, Warner DS: Post-ischemic RSR13 amplifies the effect of dizocilpine on outcome from transient focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. Brain Res 2000 Jan 17


  150. Zhou J, Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA: Relying solely on historical surgical times to estimate accurately future surgical times is unlikely to reduce the average length of time cases finish late. J Clin Anesth 2000 Jan 7


  151. Macario A, Dexter F: Estimating the duration of a case when the surgeon has not recently scheduled the procedure at the surgical suite. Anesth Analg 1999 Nov 30


  152. Macario A, Dexter F: Estimating the duration of a case when the surgeon has not recently scheduled the procedure at the surgical suite. Anesth Analg 1999 Nov 30


  153. Dexter F, Macario A, Qian F, Traub RD: Forecasting surgical groups' total hours of elective cases for allocation of block time: application of time series analysis to operating room management. Anesthesiology 1999 Nov 7


  154. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD: Which algorithm for scheduling add-on elective cases maximizes operating room utilization? Use of bin packing algorithms and fuzzy constraints in operating room management. Anesthesiology 1999 Nov 7


  155. Dexter F, Macario A, O'Neill L: A strategy for deciding operating room assignments for second-shift anesthetists. Anesth Analg 1999 Oct 8


  156. Dexter F: Design of appointment systems for preanesthesia evaluation clinics to minimize patient waiting times: a review of computer simulation and patient survey studies. Anesth Analg 1999 Oct 8


  157. Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA, Burns DD: Statistical method to evaluate management strategies to decrease variability in operating room utilization: application of linear statistical modeling and Monte Carlo simulation to operating room management. Anesthesiology 1999 Jul 28


  158. Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD, Hopwood M, Lubarsky DA: An operating room scheduling strategy to maximize the use of operating room block time: computer simulation of patient scheduling and survey of patients' preferences for surgical waiting time. Anesth Analg 1999 Jul 2


  159. Dexter F, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA, DeLong E, Sanderson I, Gilbert BC, Bell E, Reves JG: Use of an automated anesthesia information system to determine reference limits for vital signs during cesarean section. J Clin Monit Comput 1999 Jul 1


  160. Dexter F, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA, DeLong E, Sanderson I, Gilbert BC, Bell E, Reves JG: Use of an automated anesthesia information system to determine reference limits for vital signs during cesarean section. J Clin Monit Comput 1999 Jul 1


  161. Dexter F, Macario A, Manberg PJ, Lubarsky DA: Computer simulation to determine how rapid anesthetic recovery protocols to decrease the time for emergence or increase the phase I postanesthesia care unit bypass rate affect staffing of an ambulatory surgery center. Anesth Analg 1999 May 13


  162. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Subieta A, Smith T, Cutkomp J: Brain injury after cerebral arterial air embolism in the rabbit as determined by triphenyltetrazolium staining. Anesthesiology 1999 May 13


  163. Miura Y, Mackensen GB, Nellgård B, Pearlstein RD, Bart RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: Effects of isoflurane, ketamine, and fentanyl/N2O on concentrations of brain and plasma catecholamines during near-complete cerebral ischemia in the rat. Anesth Analg 1999 Apr 9


  164. Penning DH, Dexter F, Henderson JL, Chestnut DH, Reynolds JD: Bolus maternal cocaine administration does not produce a large increase in fetal sheep cerebral cortical glutamate concentration. Neurotoxicol Teratol 1999 Apr 7


  165. Penning DH, Dexter F, Henderson JL, Chestnut DH, Reynolds JD: Bolus maternal cocaine administration does not produce a large increase in fetal sheep cerebral cortical glutamate concentration. Neurotoxicol Teratol 1999 Apr 7


  166. Mackensen GB, Nellgård B, Miura Y, Chu CT, Dexter F, Pearlstein RD, Warner DS: Sympathetic ganglionic blockade masks beneficial effect of isoflurane on histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1999 Mar 17


  167. Mackensen GB, Nellgård B, Miura Y, Chu CT, Dexter F, Pearlstein RD, Warner DS: Sympathetic ganglionic blockade masks beneficial effect of isoflurane on histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1999 Mar 17


  168. Dexter F, Macario A: Decrease in case duration required to complete an additional case during regularly scheduled hours in an operating room suite: a computer simulation study. Anesth Analg 1999 Jan 23


  169. Dexter F: What can the postanesthesia care unit manager do to decrease costs in the PACU?


  170. Dexter F: Comparison of statistical methods to predict the time to complete a series of surgical cases


  171. Dexter F: Optimal sequencing of urgent surgical cases - scheduling cases using operating room information systems


  172. Zhou J, Dexter F: Method to assist in the scheduling of add-on surgical cases--upper prediction bounds for surgical case durations based on the log-normal distribution. Anesthesiology 1998 Nov 20


  173. Dexter F, Macario A, Dexter EU: Computer simulation of changes in nursing productivity from early tracheal extubation of coronary artery bypass graft patients. J Clin Anesth 1998 Nov 7


  174. Dexter F, Macario A, Cerone SM: Hospital profitability for a surgeon's common procedures predicts the surgeon's overall profitability for the hospital. J Clin Anesth 1998 Oct 30


  175. Dexter F: Regional anesthesia does not significantly change surgical time versus general anesthesia--a meta-analysis of randomized studies. Reg Anesth Pain Med 1998 Oct 17


  176. Ludington E, Dexter F: Statistical analysis of total labor pain using the visual analog scale and application to studies of analgesic effectiveness during childbirth. Anesth Analg 1998 Sep 5


  177. Ludington E, Dexter F: Statistical analysis of total labor pain using the visual analog scale and application to studies of analgesic effectiveness during childbirth. Anesth Analg 1998 Sep 5


  178. Miura Y, Grocott HP, Bart RD, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: Differential effects of anesthetic agents on outcome from near-complete but not incomplete global ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1998 Aug 26


  179. Miura Y, Grocott HP, Bart RD, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: Differential effects of anesthetic agents on outcome from near-complete but not incomplete global ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1998 Aug 26


  180. Sarraf-Yazdi S, Sheng H, Miura Y, McFarlane C, Dexter F, Pearlstein R, Warner DS: Relative neuroprotective effects of dizocilpine and isoflurane during focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. Anesth Analg 1998 Jul 14


  181. Sarraf-Yazdi S, Sheng H, Miura Y, McFarlane C, Dexter F, Pearlstein R, Warner DS: Relative neuroprotective effects of dizocilpine and isoflurane during focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. Anesth Analg 1998 Jul 14


  182. Hindman BJ, Enomoto S, Dexter F, Bates JN, Aldape G, Cutkomp J, Smith T: Cerebrovascular relaxation responses to endothelium-dependent and -independent vasodilators after normothermic and hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in the rabbit. Anesthesiology 1998 Jun 24


  183. Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Gilbert BC, Thompson C: A method to compare costs of drugs and supplies among anesthesia providers: a simple statistical method to reduce variations in cost due to variations in casemix. Anesthesiology 1998 May 30


  184. Bart RD, Takaoka S, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: Interactions between hypothermia and the latency to ischemic depolarization: implications for neuroprotection. Anesthesiology 1998 May 30


  185. Bart RD, Takaoka S, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: Interactions between hypothermia and the latency to ischemic depolarization: implications for neuroprotection. Anesthesiology 1998 May 30


  186. Macario A, Horne M, Goodman S, Vitez T, Dexter F, Heinen R, Brown B: The effect of a perioperative clinical pathway for knee replacement surgery on hospital costs. Anesth Analg 1998 May 19


  187. Macario A, Horne M, Goodman S, Vitez T, Dexter F, Heinen R, Brown B: The effect of a perioperative clinical pathway for knee replacement surgery on hospital costs. Anesth Analg 1998 May 19


  188. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Computer simulation of microscopic cerebral air emboli absorption during cardiac surgery. Undersea Hyperb Med 1998 May 5


  189. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Enomoto S, Subieta A, Smith T, Cutkomp J: Recovery of evoked potential amplitude after cerebral arterial air embolism in the rabbit: a comparison of the effect of cardiopulmonary bypass with normal circulation. Anesthesiology 1998 Apr 2


  190. Henderson JL, Reynolds JD, Dexter F, Atkins B, Hrdy J, Poduska D, Penning DH: Chronic hypoxemia causes extracellular glutamate concentration to increase in the cerebral cortex of the near-term fetal sheep. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1998 Feb 10


  191. Henderson JL, Reynolds JD, Dexter F, Atkins B, Hrdy J, Poduska D, Penning DH: Chronic hypoxemia causes extracellular glutamate concentration to increase in the cerebral cortex of the near-term fetal sheep. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1998 Feb 10


  192. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Effect of haemoglobin concentration on brain oxygenation in focal stroke: a mathematical modelling study. Br J Anaesth 1997 Dec 9


  193. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Effect of haemoglobin concentration on brain oxygenation in focal stroke: a mathematical modelling study. Br J Anaesth 1997 Dec 9


  194. Pittman JE, Sheng H, Pearlstein R, Brinkhous A, Dexter F, Warner DS: Comparison of the effects of propofol and pentobarbital on neurologic outcome and cerebral infarct size after temporary focal ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1997 Nov 20


  195. Dexter F: Application of practice guidelines to anesthesiology. Anesthesiology 1997 Nov 20


  196. Pittman JE, Sheng H, Pearlstein R, Brinkhous A, Dexter F, Warner DS: Comparison of the effects of propofol and pentobarbital on neurologic outcome and cerebral infarct size after temporary focal ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1997 Nov 20


  197. Dexter F: Application of practice guidelines to anesthesiology. Anesthesiology 1997 Nov 20


  198. Lovick DS, Ryken TC, Traynelis VC, Dexter F: Assessment of primary and salvage lateral mass screw insertion torque in a cadaveric model. J Spinal Disord 1997 Nov 14


  199. Lovick DS, Ryken TC, Traynelis VC, Dexter F: Assessment of primary and salvage lateral mass screw insertion torque in a cadaveric model. J Spinal Disord 1997 Nov 14


  200. Dexter F, Aker J, Wright WA: Development of a measure of patient satisfaction with monitored anesthesia care: the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale. Anesthesiology 1997 Nov 14


  201. Morimoto Y, Morimoto Y, Bart RD, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: High-dose fentanyl does not adversely affect outcome from forebrain ischemia in the rat. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 1997 Oct 27


  202. Morimoto Y, Morimoto Y, Bart RD, Pearlstein RD, Dexter F, Warner DS: High-dose fentanyl does not adversely affect outcome from forebrain ischemia in the rat. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 1997 Oct 27


  203. Reasoner DK, Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Subieta A, Cutkomp J, Smith T: Doxycycline reduces early neurologic impairment after cerebral arterial air embolism in the rabbit. Anesthesiology 1997 Oct 8


  204. Reynolds JD, Penning DH, Kimura KA, Dexter F, Henderson JL, Atkins B, Poduska D, Brien JF: Ethanol-induced changes in prostaglandin E concentration in the intact cerebral cortex of preterm and near-term fetal sheep. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1997 Oct 6


  205. Pecka SL, Dexter F: Anesthesia providers' interventions during cataract extraction under monitored anesthesia care. AANA J 1997 Aug 1


  206. Dexter F: Research synthesis of controlled studies evaluating the effect of hypocapnia and airway protection on cerebral outcome. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 1997 Jul 1


  207. Dexter F, Macario A: Does early extubation ("fast-tracking") of coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients truly decrease perioperative costs?: Appropriate analysis of direct variable costs. Anesthesiology 1997 Jul 1


  208. Dexter F, Macario A: Does early extubation ("fast-tracking") of coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients truly decrease perioperative costs?: Appropriate analysis of direct variable costs. Anesthesiology 1997 Jul 1


  209. Dexter F: Heart rate variability, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and mathematical modeling of acetylcholine pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in sinus node neuroeffector junctions. Anesth Analg 1997 Jun 1


  210. Dexter F: Heart rate variability, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and mathematical modeling of acetylcholine pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in sinus node neuroeffector junctions. Anesth Analg 1997 Jun 1


  211. Dexter F, Kern FH, Hindman BJ, Greeley WJ: The brain uses mostly dissolved oxygen during profoundly hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. Ann Thorac Surg 1997 Jun 1


  212. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Recommendations for hyperbaric oxygen therapy of cerebral air embolism based on a mathematical model of bubble absorption. Anesth Analg 1997 Jun 1


  213. Dexter F, Coffin S, Woodward J: Performance of anesthesia machines' devices that are not part of the Food and Drug Administration's daily checkout. J Clin Monit 1997 May 1


  214. Dexter F, Rittenmeyer H: A statistical method for predicting postanesthesia care unit staffing needs. AORN J 1997 May 1


  215. Dexter F, Rittenmeyer H: Quantification of phase I postanesthesia nursing activities in the phase II postanesthesia care unit. Nurs Outlook 1997 Mar 1


  216. Dexter F, Rittenmeyer H: Measuring productivity of the phase I postanesthesia care unit. J Perianesth Nurs 1997 Feb 1


  217. McArdle P, Penning DH, Dexter F, Reynolds JD: Flumazenil does not affect the increase in rat hippocampal extracellular glutamate concentration produced during thioacetamide-induced hepatic encephalopathy. Metab Brain Dis 1996 Dec 1


  218. Dexter F, Macario A: Applications of information systems to operating room scheduling. Anesthesiology 1996 Dec 1


  219. McArdle P, Penning DH, Dexter F, Reynolds JD: Flumazenil does not affect the increase in rat hippocampal extracellular glutamate concentration produced during thioacetamide-induced hepatic encephalopathy. Metab Brain Dis 1996 Dec 1


  220. Dexter F, Macario A: Applications of information systems to operating room scheduling. Anesthesiology 1996 Dec 1


  221. Kim YJ, McFarlane C, Warner DS, Baker MT, Choi WW, Dexter F: The effects of plasma and brain magnesium concentrations on lidocaine-induced seizures in the rat. Anesth Analg 1996 Dec 1


  222. Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Marshall JS: Estimate of the maximum absorption rate of microscopic arterial air emboli after entry into the arterial circulation during cardiac surgery. Perfusion 1996 Nov 1


  223. Dexter F, Pearson K, Griffiths DL, Jebson P: Surgical ICU underutilization does not significantly discourage discharge. Health Serv Manage Res 1996 Oct 4


  224. Reasoner DK, Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Subieta A, Todd MM: Somatosensory evoked potentials correlate with neurological outcome in rabbits undergoing cerebral air embolism. Stroke 1996 Oct 1


  225. Reynolds JD, Chestnut DH, Dexter F, McGrath J, Penning DH: Magnesium sulfate adversely affects fetal lamb survival and blocks fetal cerebral blood flow response during maternal hemorrhage. Anesth Analg 1996 Sep 1


  226. Dexter F: Application of cost-utility and quality-adjusted life years analyses to monitored anesthesia care for sedation only. J Clin Anesth 1996 Jun 1


  227. Enomoto S, Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Smith T, Cutkomp J: Rapid rewarming causes an increase in the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen that is temporarily unmatched by cerebral blood flow. A study during cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1996 Jun 1


  228. Clausen JD, Ryken TC, Traynelis VC, Sawin PD, Dexter F, Goel VK: Biomechanical evaluation of Caspar and Cervical Spine Locking Plate systems in a cadaveric model. J Neurosurg 1996 Jun 1


  229. Warner DS, Takaoka S, Wu B, Ludwig PS, Pearlstein RD, Brinkhous AD, Dexter F: Electroencephalographic burst suppression is not required to elicit maximal neuroprotection from pentobarbital in a rat model of focal cerebral ischemia. Anesthesiology 1996 Jun 1


  230. Clausen JD, Ryken TC, Traynelis VC, Sawin PD, Dexter F, Goel VK: Biomechanical evaluation of Caspar and Cervical Spine Locking Plate systems in a cadaveric model. J Neurosurg 1996 Jun 1


  231. Warner DS, Takaoka S, Wu B, Ludwig PS, Pearlstein RD, Brinkhous AD, Dexter F: Electroencephalographic burst suppression is not required to elicit maximal neuroprotection from pentobarbital in a rat model of focal cerebral ischemia. Anesthesiology 1996 Jun 1


  232. Reynolds JD, Penning DH, Dexter F, Atkins B, Hrdy J, Poduska D, Brien JF: Ethanol increases uterine blood flow and fetal arterial blood oxygen tension in the near-term pregnant ewe. Alcohol 1996 May 1


  233. Dexter F: Application of prediction levels to OR scheduling. AORN J 1996 Mar 1


  234. Dexter F, Reasoner DK: Theoretical assessment of normobaric oxygen therapy to treat pneumocephalus. Anesthesiology 1996 Feb 1


  235. Ryu KH, Hindman BJ, Reasoner DK, Dexter F: Heparin reduces neurological impairment after cerebral arterial air embolism in the rabbit. Stroke 1996 Feb 1


  236. Ryu KH, Hindman BJ, Reasoner DK, Dexter F: Heparin reduces neurological impairment after cerebral arterial air embolism in the rabbit. Stroke 1996 Feb 1


  237. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Cutkomp J, Smith T: Diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin does not increase brain oxygen consumption during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1995 Dec 1


  238. Reynolds JD, Penning DH, Dexter F, Atkins B, Hrdy J, Poduska D, Chestnut DH, Brien JF: Dose-dependent effects of acute in vivo ethanol exposure on extracellular glutamate concentration in the cerebral cortex of the near-term fetal sheep. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1995 Dec 1


  239. Dexter F, Coffin S, Tinker JH: Decreases in anesthesia-controlled time cannot permit one additional surgical operation to be reliably scheduled during the workday. Anesth Analg 1995 Dec 1


  240. Dexter F, Tinker JH: The cost efficacy of hypothetically eliminating adverse anesthetic outcomes from high-risk, but neither low- nor moderate-risk, surgical operations. Anesth Analg 1995 Nov 1


  241. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Theoretical analysis of cerebral venous blood hemoglobin oxygen saturation as an index of cerebral oxygenation during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. A counterproposal to the "luxury perfusion" hypothesis. Anesthesiology 1995 Aug 1


  242. Dexter F, Tinker JH: Comparisons between desflurane and isoflurane or propofol on time to following commands and time to discharge. A metaanalysis. Anesthesiology 1995 Jul 1


  243. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F: Interactions between NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptor antagonists during halothane anesthesia in the rat. Neuropharmacology 1995 Jun 1


  244. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F: Interactions between NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptor antagonists during halothane anesthesia in the rat. Neuropharmacology 1995 Jun 1


  245. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Nader A, Dexter F: Glycine receptor antagonism. Effects of ACEA-1021 on the minimum alveolar concentration for halothane in the rat. Anesthesiology 1995 Apr 1


  246. Warner DS, Todd MM, Dexter F, Ludwig P, McAllister AM: Temporal thresholds for hyperglycemia-augmented ischemic brain damage in rats. Stroke 1995 Apr 1


  247. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Nader A, Dexter F: Glycine receptor antagonism. Effects of ACEA-1021 on the minimum alveolar concentration for halothane in the rat. Anesthesiology 1995 Apr 1


  248. Warner DS, Todd MM, Dexter F, Ludwig P, McAllister AM: Temporal thresholds for hyperglycemia-augmented ischemic brain damage in rats. Stroke 1995 Apr 1


  249. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Cutkomp J, Smith T: pH-stat management reduces the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen during profound hypothermia (17 degrees C). A study during cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1995 Apr 1


  250. Dexter F, Chestnut DH: Analysis of statistical tests to compare visual analog scale measurements among groups. Anesthesiology 1995 Apr 1


  251. Dexter F: Statistical analysis of drug interactions in anesthesia. J Theor Biol 1995 Feb 21


  252. Penning DH, Chestnut DH, Dexter F, Hrdy J, Poduska D, Atkins B: Glutamate release from the ovine fetal brain during maternal hemorrhage. A study using chronic in utero cerebral microdialysis. Anesthesiology 1995 Feb 1


  253. Hindman BJ, Dexter F: Estimating brain temperature during hypothermia. Anesthesiology 1995 Feb 1


  254. Hindman BJ, Dexter F: Estimating brain temperature during hypothermia. Anesthesiology 1995 Feb 1


  255. Dexter F, Tinker JH: Analysis of strategies to decrease postanesthesia care unit costs. Anesthesiology 1995 Jan 1


  256. Dexter F: Mathematical analysis of haemodilution's direct effect on rate of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass. Med Biol Eng Comput 1995 Jan 1


  257. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Smith T, Cutkomp J: Pulsatile versus nonpulsatile flow. No difference in cerebral blood flow or metabolism during normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1995 Jan 1


  258. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F, Ludwig PA: Minimum alveolar concentration for halothane in the rat is resistant to effects of forebrain ischemia and reperfusion. Anesthesiology 1994 Nov 1


  259. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F, Ludwig PA: Minimum alveolar concentration for halothane in the rat is resistant to effects of forebrain ischemia and reperfusion. Anesthesiology 1994 Nov 1


  260. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F, Todd MM: Glutamatergic antagonism: effects on lidocaine-induced seizures in the rat. Anesth Analg 1994 Oct 1


  261. McFarlane C, Warner DS, Dexter F, Todd MM: Glutamatergic antagonism: effects on lidocaine-induced seizures in the rat. Anesth Analg 1994 Oct 1


  262. Dexter F: Analysis of statistical tests to compare doses of analgesics among groups. Anesthesiology 1994 Sep 1


  263. Dexter F, Ben-Haim S: Theoretical analysis predicts that respiratory sinus arrhythmia does not accurately measure efferent vagal activity during anesthesia. J Theor Biol 1994 Jul 21


  264. Dexter F, Hindman BJ: Computer simulation of brain cooling during cardiopulmonary bypass. Ann Thorac Surg 1994 May 1


  265. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Ryu KH, Smith T, Cutkomp J: Pulsatile versus nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass. No difference in brain blood flow or metabolism at 27 degrees C. Anesthesiology 1994 May 1


  266. Dexter F, Rudy Y, Saidel GM: Mathematical model of acetylcholine kinetics in neuroeffector junctions. Am J Physiol 1994 Jan 1


  267. Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Cutkomp J, Smith T: Blood warms as it flows retrograde from a femoral cannulation site to the carotid artery during cardiopulmonary bypass. Perfusion 1994 Jan 1


  268. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Cutkomp J, Smith T, Tinker JH: Hypothermic acid-base management does not affect cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen at 27 degrees C. A study during cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1993 Sep 1


  269. Dexter F, Yang T, Levy MN: Analysis of vagally induced sinus arrhythmias. J Theor Biol 1992 Dec 21


  270. Spiegel DA, Dexter F, Warner DS, Baker MT, Todd MM: Central nervous system toxicity of local anesthetic mixtures in the rat. Anesth Analg 1992 Dec 1


  271. Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Cutkomp J, Smith T, Todd MM, Tinker JH: Brain blood flow and metabolism do not decrease at stable brain temperature during cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1992 Aug 1


  272. Hindman BJ, Funatsu N, Harrington J, Cutkomp J, Dexter F, Todd MM, Tinker JH: Cerebral blood flow response to PaCO2 during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in rabbits. Anesthesiology 1991 Oct 1


  273. Dexter F, Rudy Y, Levy MN, Bruce EN: Mathematical model of cellular basis for the respiratory sinus arrhythmia. J Theor Biol 1991 May 21


  274. Dexter F, Saidel GM, Rudy Y: Simulation of the diffusion of acetylcholine in the neuroeffector junctions of the sinus node. J Theor Biol 1989 Dec 19


  275. Dexter F, Saidel GM, Rudy Y: Simulation of the diffusion of acetylcholine in the neuroeffector junctions of the sinus node. J Theor Biol 1989 Dec 19


  276. Dexter F, Levy MN, Rudy Y: Mathematical model of the changes in heart rate elicited by vagal stimulation. Circ Res 1989 Nov 1


  277. Dexter F, Levy MN, Rudy Y: Mathematical model of the changes in heart rate elicited by vagal stimulation. Circ Res 1989 Nov 1


  278. Dexter F, Rudy Y, Levy MN: Muscarinic autoreceptors do not modulate kinetics of acetylcholine release in hearts. Am J Physiol 1989 Apr 1


  279. Dexter F, Rudy Y, Levy MN: Muscarinic autoreceptors do not modulate kinetics of acetylcholine release in hearts. Am J Physiol 1989 Apr 1


  280. Dexter F, Saidel GM, Levy MN, Rudy Y: Mathematical model of dependence of heart rate on tissue concentration of acetylcholine. Am J Physiol 1989 Feb 1


  281. Dexter F, Saidel GM, Levy MN, Rudy Y: Mathematical model of dependence of heart rate on tissue concentration of acetylcholine. Am J Physiol 1989 Feb 1


  282. Dexter F: Modeling holocene changes in the location and abundance of beech populations in eastern North America


  283. Dexter F: A statistical measure of internal consistency


  284. Dexter F: Modification of the standard most-probable-number procedure for fecal coliform bacteria in seawater and shellfish. Appl Environ Microbiol 1981 Jul 1


  285. Dexter F: Modification of the standard most-probable-number procedure for fecal coliform bacteria in seawater and shellfish. Appl Environ Microbiol 1981 Jul 1


  286. Dexter F, Medici D: [A tissue bank: aspects concerning its promotion and organization (author's transl)] Ateneo Parmense Acta Biomed 1978 Jan 1


  287. Dexter F: Tissue banking in England. Transplant Proc 1976 Jun 1


  288. Aparicio SR, Donnelly RJ, Dexter F, Watson DA: Light and electron microscopy studies on homograft and heterograft heart valves. J Pathol 1975 Mar 1


  289. Donnelly RJ, Aparicio SR, Dexter F, Deverall PB, Watson DA: Gamma-radiation of heart valves at 4 degrees C; a comparative study using techniques of histochemistry and electron and light microscopy. Thorax 1973 Jan 1


  290. Dexter F, Donnelly RJ, Deverall PB, Watson DA: Post-mortem shrinkage of homograft aortic valves. Thorax 1972 May 1


  291. Dexter F: Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a regional burns centre. J Hyg (Lond) 1971 Jun 1


  292. Donnelly RJ, Dexter F, Deverall PB, Watson DA: A new technique for mounting and testing frame-supported homograft aortic valves. Thorax 1971 Mar 1


  293. Watson DA, Pearson KW, Cawley JC, Rhea WG, Donnelly RJ, Dexter F: Aortic valve replacement with dacron-supported grafts. Thorax 1968 Nov 1


  294. Barclay TL, Dexter F: Infection and cross-infection in a new Burns Centre. Br J Surg 1968 Mar 1
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