Physicians

Department / Division
Anesthesiology / Anesthesiology-Womens Division

Address
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone
919-668-6266

Fax Telephone
919-668-6265

Training

• MB BS, University of Ibadan College of Medicine (Nigeria), 1986

Residency

• Diploma, Child Health, England, 1993
• Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists (United Kingdom), 1995
• Anesthesiology, Southampton University Hospital (United Kingdom), 1998

Clinical Interests
Obstetric, gynecology, and urology anesthesia

Research Interests
My interests include obstetric and gynecological anesthesia research.  I am interested in improving the quality of pain control in both the labor wards and the gynecological surgical population. My interests include the use of opioids in obstetric population; I am involved in looking at the incidence and factors related to postdural puncture headaches.  Conservative management of Postdural puncture headache; efficacy of generic propofol.I also have an interest in the management of the difficult airway in general anesthesia

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician has no reported relationships with industry.

Representative Publications
Olufolabi AJ, Muir HA. Airway management in the pregnant trauma victim. Management of the difficult and failed airway . Orlando and Murphy. Magraw-Hill 2007 (2007)

Olufolabi AJ, Muir HA. Unanticipated difficult airway in an aobstetrical patient requiring emergency cesarean section. Management of the difficult and failed airway . Orlando and Murphy Magraw-Hill 2007 (2007)

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: [L'analgésie post-césarienne par blocage nerveux ilio-hypogastrique et ilio-inguinal réduit les besoins de morphine mais non les effets secondaires reliés aux opioïdes]. Can J Anaesth. 2002 Aug;49(7):694-700. (2002) Abstract

A. Olufolabi, E. Bell, H. Muir. Postdural puncture headache: using the database as a QI tool to change practice. Society of Obstetric Anesthesiology and Perinatology, San Diego April 2001. (2001)

E. Bell, A. Olufolabi, A. Hartle. Does ethnic origin affect relationship of BMI and incidence of C/S? Society of Obstetric Anesthesiology and Perinatology, San Diego April 2001. (2001)

Adeyemi J. Olufolabi, John V. Booth, Howard G. Wakeling, Peter S. Glass, Donald H. Penning, and James D. Reynolds. A Preliminary Investigation of Remifentanil as a Labor Analgesic (Brief Communication) Anesth Analg 2000; 91:606-608. (2000)

Booth JV, Lindsay DR, Olufolabi AJ, El-Moalem HE, Penning DH, Reynolds JD. Subarachnoid meperidine (Pethidine) causes significant nausea and vomiting during labor. Anesthesiology 2000 Aug; 93(2):418-21. (2000)