Intravenous starches: is suspension the best solution?

Dr. Karthik Raghunathan is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Anesthesiology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Population Health Sciences, at the Duke University School of Medicine. He is also a Staff Physician at the Durham Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. He is co-director of the Critical care And Perioperative population hEalth Research (CAPER) Program at Duke Anesthesiology. 

In addition to clinical practice as an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician, Dr. Raghunathan is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with over $2 Million in funding from Federal, Industry, and Non-Profit entities since 2015. His research is focused on intravenous fluid resuscitation, acute postoperative pain management, the implementation and effectiveness of nonpharmacologic treatments, sources of bias in anesthesia care, and perioperative medicine. He collaborates with investigators at Duke, and at VA Healthcare Systems nationwide. He also works with colleagues outside the US. He can be reached at kr118@duke.edu. 

Clinical and research interests are Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Medicine; with particular interests in fluid management, and perioperative optimization of the high-risk non-cardiac surgery patient.