Department / Division:
Anesthesiology / Anesthesiology

Address:
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone:
919-681-6535

Fax Telephone:
919-668-6265

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

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

Representative Publications:
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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)