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Greta Palmer - Anaesthesia & Pain Management

Greta Palmer

Qualifications

• MBBS  FANCZA  FFPMANZCA

• PALS and APLS

• Clinical and Research Anaesthesia/ Pain Fellowship:
  Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard

• Clinical ‘Longwood’ Pain Fellowship (chronic, procedural
  and acute): Boston Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital,
  Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston

• Fellow in Cancer Pain Management and Palliative Care:
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Position in Department

• Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Medicine Specialist
• Clinical Associate Professor (University of Melbourne) 

Starting Year at RCH

• 2001

Special Areas (Departmental role & Clinical Areas)

• Pain Management: Acute, Chronic (including procedural),
  Cancer pain and Palliative Care

• Anaesthesia, particularly Orthopaedic and Scoliosis surgery

Outside Roles 

• FPMANZCA examiner
• Reviewer: Paediatric Anaesthesia; Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
• APLS educator: 3^rd World Anaesthesia

  Research Interests

• Acute pain research

• Opioid withdrawal/weaning protocols

• Post-operative nausea and vomiting

Recent papers published

Babl FE, Barnett P, Palmer GM, Oakley E, Davidson A. A Pilot Study of Inhaled Methoxyflurane for Procedural Analgesia in Children. Paed Anesth 2006 (in press)

Anderson BJ, Palmer GM. Recent Pharmacological Advances in Paediatric Analgesics. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy 2006; 60:303-9.

Babl FE, Munro J, Kainey G, Palmer GM, Iser A. Scope for improvement: hospital wide sedation practice at a children’s hospital. Arch Dis Childhood: 2006;91:716 - 717.

 Anderson BJ, Palmer GM. Recent Developments in the Pharmacological Management of Pain in Children. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology 2006; 19:285-92.

 Palmer GM, Frawley GP, Heine RG, Oliver MR. Complications associated with endoscopic removal of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes in children. JPGN 2006:42; 443-5.

 Palmer GM, Anderson BJ Book chapter:‘Non-opioid analgesic drugs’ in Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Editor:  Imti Choonara. Fontis Media, 2006

Palmer GM, Anderson BJ. Book chapter: 'Opioid analgesic drugs' in Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Editors: I Choonara, Fontis Media, 2006.

 Palmer GM. Contibutor NHMRC working party: Acute pain scientific evidence guidelines NHMRC-ANZCA policy document Feb 2005.

 Dowden SD, Palmer GM. Pain management.  Chapter in Paediatric Trauma Management Manual/CD ROM, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, May 2004.

 Yeung SPS, Palmer GM. Letter to the Editor: Exacerbation of Asthma induced by ibuprofen. Australian Prescriber 2004;27:87.

 Palmer GM. A teenager with severe asthma exacerbation following ibuprofen (a case report). Anaesth Intens Care. 2005;33:261-5.

 Palmer GM, Cameron D. Use of intravenous midazolam and clonidine in cyclical vomiting syndrome. Paed Anaesth. 2004; 5 (1):68-72

Eltzschig HK, Palmer GM, Brustowicz R. Colobronchial fistula in a pediatric patient: diagnostic value of isolated single-lung ventilation and intraperative use of high frequency oscillatory ventilation. Anesth Analg. 2002;95(3):621-3.

 Palmer GM, Cairns BE, Berkes SL, Dunning PS , Taylor GA , Berde CB. The effects of lidocaine and adrenergic agonists on rat nerve and muscle blood flow in vivo. Anesth Analg. 2002;95:1080-6.

 Palmer GM, Sethna N, Berde C. Prolonged sensory and motor deficit following short-term epidural analgesia in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease. J Pain Sympt Management. 2002; 23(2): 89-92.

Palmer GM, Davidson A, Sethna N, Laussen P. Use of bispectral index monitor to aid titration of propofol in a drug assisted interview. Paed Anaesth.2001;11(2):245-8.