Arjunan Ganesh, MBBS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215 590 1623
Fax: 215 590 1415
Fax: 215 590 1415
Email:
ganesha@email.chop.edu
ganesha@email.chop.edu
Education:
MBBS
Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India, 1988.
M.S. (General Surgery)
University of Delhi, India, 1993.
FRCS (Surgery)
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1995.
Permanent linkMBBS
Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India, 1988.
M.S. (General Surgery)
University of Delhi, India, 1993.
FRCS (Surgery)
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1995.
Description of Research Expertise
1) Techniques to improve acute pain management2) Evaluation of regional anesthetic techniques for postoperative analgesia
3) Evaluation of ultrasound in pediatric anesthesia
4) Role of peripheral nerve blockade in pediatric pain management.
Description of Clinical Expertise
1) Pediatric Anesthesia2) Pediatric Acute Pain Management
3) Pediatric Regional Anesthesia
4) Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia
5) Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
6) Obstetric Anesthesia for Fetal Interventional Therapy
Selected Publications
Einhorn, L.M., Monitto, C.C., Ganesh, A., Duan, Q., Lee, J., Ramamurthi, R.J., Barnett, K., Ding, L., Chidambaran, V.: Multi-institutional study of multimodal analgesia practice, pain trajectories and recovery trends following spine fusion for idiopathic scoliosis. Anesthesia and Analgesia January 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.Upton, B.A., Krolick, K.N., Zhang, X., Pilipenko, V., Martin, L., Ji, H., Glynn, S., Ganesh, A., Monitto, C.L., Einhorn, L.M., Ramamurthi, R.J., Chidambaran, V.: Multi-center study of OPRM1 A118G and promoter-region DNA methylation associations with opioid outcomes and chronic post-surgical pain after pediatric musculoskeletal surgery – secondary analyses. Pain Reports 9(6), December 2024 Notes: Accepted for publication.
Bae, E., Ganesh, A., Flake, A.W., Gurnaney, H.G.: Benefit of epidural analgesia for postoperative pain control after a Kasai Portoenterostomy: A ten-year retrospective cohort study. Paediatr Anaesth. 33(2): 154-159, February 2023.
Yuan, I., Nelson, O., Barr, G.A., Zhang, B., Topjian, A.A., DiMaggio, T.J., Lang, S., Christ, L.A., Izzetoglu, K., Greco, C.C., Kurth, C.D., Ganesh, A.: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy to assess pain in neonatal circumcisions. Paediatr Anaesth 32(3): 404-412, March 2022.
Narayanasamy, S., Yang, F., Ding, L., Geisler, K., Glynn, s., Ganesh, A., Sathyamoorthy, M., Garcia, v., Sturm, P., Chidambaran, V. : Pediatric Pain Screening Tool: A Simple 9-Item Questionnaire Predicts Functional and Chronic Postsurgical Pain Outcomes After Major Musculoskeletal Surgeries. J Pain 23(1): 98-111, January 2022.
Sequera-Ramos, L., Ruby, J.M., Jackson, J.A., Ganesh, A., Gurnaney, H., Kraemer, F.W., Muhly, W.T.: Continuous Transversalis Fascia Plane Catheter Infusion in a Pediatric Patient Undergoing Alveolar Cleft Repair with Iliac Crest Bone Graft: A Case Report. A.A. Pract 13(5): 162-165, September 2019.
Muhly, W.T., Gurnaney, H.G., Kraemer, F.W., Ganesh, A., Maxwell, L.G.: A Retrospective Comparison of Ropivacaine and Chloroprocaine Continuous Thoracic Epidural Analgesia for Management of Post Thoracotomy Pain in Infants. Pediatric Anesthesia 25(11): 1162-7, Nov 2015.
Gurnaney, H.G., Muhly, W.T., Kraemer, F.W., Cucchiaro, G., Ganesh, A.: Safety of pediatric continuous interscalene block catheters placed under general anesthesia – A single center’s experience. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 59(3): 377-83, March 2015.
Gurnaney, H., Kraemer, F.W., Maxwell, L, Muhly, W.T., Schleelein, L, Ganesh, A.: Ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks in children and adolescents-A longitudinal eight year single center study. Anesthesia and Analgesia 118(3): 621-7, March 2014.
Stricker, P.A., Sestokas, A.K., Schwartz, D., Bhalodia, Vidya., Dormans, J.P., LaBrant, L.L., Burgess, B.J., Kraemer, F.W., Ganesh, A. : Effects of Intrathecal Morphine on Transcranial Electric Motor Evoked Potentials in Adolescents Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion. Anethesia and Analgesia 115(1): 160-9, July 2012.