Richard Moon, MD

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• Anesthesiology
• Hyperbaric, Diving, and Altitude Medicine

Medical Director, Hyperbaric Center

Department / Division:
Anesthesiology / Anesthesiology

Address:
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-681-1685

Office Telephone:
919-681-5805

Fax Telephone:
919-681-4698

• MD, McGill University Faculty of Medicine (Canada), 1973

• Medicine, Toronto General Hospital (Canada), 1974-1975
• Medicine, Sunnybrook Medical Center (Canada), 1977-1978
• Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1981-1983

• Medical Research Council Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto (Canada), 1975-1979
• Pulmonary Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1979-1981

Clinical Interests:
General anesthesiology, undersea and hyperbaric medicine

Research Interests:
Research interests include the study of cardiorespiratory function in humans exposed to environmental conditions ranging from 200 feet of seawater depth to high altitude, gas exchange during diving, the pathophysiology of high altitude pulmonary edema and the effect of anesthesia and postoperative analgesia on pulmonary function. Ongoing human studies include the use of fractals to study breathing patterns during environmental and perioperative stress, and mechanisms of immersion pulmonary edema.

Representative Publications:
Scafetta N, Moon RE, West BJ. Fractal response of physiological signals to stress conditions, environmental changes, and neurodegenerative diseases. Complexity 2007 May/June;12(5):12-17. (2007)

Forkner IF, Piantadosi CA, Scafetta N, Moon RE. Hyperoxia-induced tissue hypoxia: a danger? Anesthesiology. 2007 May;106(5):1051-5. (2007) Abstract

Moon RE. Nitroglycerine: relief from the heartache of decompression sickness? J Appl Physiol. 2006 Dec;101(6):1537-1538. (2006) Abstract

Moon RE. Bubbles in the brain: what to do for arterial gas embolism? Crit Care Med. 2005 Apr;33(4):909-10. (2005) Abstract

Mummery HJ, Stolp BW, deL Dear G, Doar PO, Natoli MJ, Boso AE, Archibald JD, Hobbs GW, El-Moalem HE, Moon RE. Effects of age and exercise on physiological dead space during simulated dives at 2.8 ATA. J Appl Physiol. 2003 Feb;94(2):507-17. (2003) Abstract