Guy De L. Dear, MB

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Services

• Anesthesiology
• Hyperbaric, Diving, and Altitude Medicine

• Anesthesiology / Anesthesiology
• Pediatrics / Anesthesiology

Address:
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 681-3460

Office Telephone:
(919) 681-3460

Fax Telephone:
(919) 681-4698

• Anesthesia, St. George's Hospital, 1982-1984

• Pediatric Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, 1984-1985
• Anesthesia, St. George's Hospital, 1985-1986
• Visiting Associate, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1986-1987
• Anesthesia, Westminster Hospital, 1987-1991

Clinical Interests:
Pediatric anesthesiology, general anesthesiology, hyperbaric medicine

Research Interests:
Fitness to dive issues relating to divers with insulin requiring diabetes and other illnesses. I have just completed a major international workshop sponsored by the UHMS and DAN on diabetes and diving in 2005.

Epidemiology of Diving Incidents.  I am involved with the Divers Alert Network in basic research of the incidence, signs and symptoms of Decompression Illness.  We are developing statistical methods to examine both prospectively and retrospectively aspects of exposure that are related to Diving incidents.

Use of differing anesthesia techniques to deal with children with various inborn errors of metabolism.

Representative Publications:
Moon RE, Dear GD, Stolp BW. Treatment of decompression illness and iatrogenic gas embolism. Resp Care Clin N Am 1999; 5:93-135. (1999)

Dear G de L, Panten RR, Lubarsky DA. Operating room information systems, Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain. Edited by Katz RL and Ward DS. Vol. 18, No. 4 (December), 1999; p. 322-333. (1999)

Dear GD, Kraft K, Stolp BW, Cronje FJ, Moon RE. Descriptive analysis of a comprehensive clinical hyperbaric database. Undersea Hyperbaric Med 2003; 30S:127 (2003)

Dear GD, Pollock NW, Uguccioni DM, Dovenbarger J, Feinglos MN, Moon RE. Plasma Glucose Responses in Recreational Divers with Insulin-Requiring Diabetes. Undersea & Hyperbaric Med 2004; 31(3):291-301
(2004)

Gan TJ, Ing R, Dear GD, Wright D, El-Moalem HE, Lubarsky D. How much are patients willing to pay to avoid intraoperative awareness? J Clin Anesth; 15:108-112 (2003)

Dear GD, Ames WA, Eck JB, Ross AK, B. Weldon BC. Use of the Laryngeal Mask Airway for Pediatric Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: a Report of 1027 Cases. Anesthesiology 2007;A-1630 (2007)