Lauren C Berkow

Lauren C Berkow, MD, FASA

Professor Of Anesthesiology; Chief, Division Of Neuroanesthesia; Director Of Anesthesia Supplies And Equipment

Department: MD-ANESTHESIOLOGY-GENERAL
Business Phone: (352) 273-6575
Business Email: lberkow@anest.ufl.edu

About Lauren C Berkow

Dr. Berkow is a Professor of Anesthesiology and the Chief of the Division of Neuroanesthesia. She also serves as the Director of Anesthesia Supplies and Equipment and the Co-Chair of the UF Shands Sustainability Committee. She came to us in 2016 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where she served as an Associate Professor and Associate Chief for the Division of Neuroanesthesia.

Dr. Berkow earned her Bachelor’s at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and her medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. She completed her surgical residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, New York. She also completed an anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and earned a Business of Medicine Graduate Certificate from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. While working at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Berkow held many positions such as Instructor, Assistant Residency Director, and Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Berkow was also Director of Airway Education at Johns Hopkins and she focuses on difficult airway management in addition to neuroanesthesiology. She is the current Immediate-Past President of the Society for Airway Management after serving a two-year term as President. She has written numerous papers on airway management and neuroanesthesia and is a member of many professional societies. In 2015, Dr. Berkow was presented the Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Physician for Environmental Health Award. In addition, she has spoken at many events on the topics of “Greening the Operating Rooms” and “Sustainability in Medicine and Anesthesia.”

Board Certifications

  • Anesthesiology
    American Board of Anesthesiology

Publications

2021
Difficult Airway Management in Adult Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: Statement by the Society of Airway Management.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 133(4):876-890 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005554. [PMID] 33711004.
2020
Alternate airway strategies for the patient with morbid obesity.
International anesthesiology clinics. 58(3):1-8 [DOI] 10.1097/AIA.0000000000000277. [PMID] 32271196.
2020
COVID-19 Putting Patients at Risk of Unplanned Extubation and Airway Providers at Increased Risk of Contamination.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 131(1):e41-e43 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004890. [PMID] 32304463.
2020
In Response.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 131(5) [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005166. [PMID] 33094987.
2019
Scaling Up Inhaled Anesthetic Practice Improvement: The Role of Environmental Sustainability Metrics.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 128(6):1060-1062 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004095. [PMID] 31094766.
2018
Multidisciplinary Difficult Airway Course: An Essential Educational Component of a Hospital-Wide Difficult Airway Response Program.
Journal of surgical education. 75(5):1264-1275 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jsurg.2018.03.001. [PMID] 29628333.
2018
The Technology of Video Laryngoscopy.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 126(5):1527-1534 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002490. [PMID] 28961559.
2016
Anesthetic management and human factors in the intraoperative MRI environment.
Current opinion in anaesthesiology. 29(5):563-7 [DOI] 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000366. [PMID] 27285726.
2015
A novel role for otolaryngologists in the multidisciplinary Difficult Airway Response Team.
The Laryngoscope. 125(3):640-4 [DOI] 10.1002/lary.24949. [PMID] 25251732.
2015
Difficult airway response team: a novel quality improvement program for managing hospital-wide airway emergencies.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 121(1):127-139 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000691. [PMID] 26086513.
2015
Part 7: Adult Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support: 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
Circulation. 132(18 Suppl 2):S444-64 [DOI] 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000261. [PMID] 26472995.
2014
Complications of airway management.
Respiratory care. 59(6):1006-19; discussion 1019 [DOI] 10.4187/respcare.02884. [PMID] 24891204.
2012
Mechanical airway obstruction due to dislodged spinal hardware.
Journal of clinical anesthesia. 24(7):578-81 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.03.002. [PMID] 23101773.
2011
A novel approach to implementation of quality and safety programmes in anaesthesiology.
Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology. 25(4):557-67 [DOI] 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.08.002. [PMID] 22099921.
2011
Continuous noninvasive hemoglobin monitoring during complex spine surgery.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 113(6):1396-402 [DOI] 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318230b425. [PMID] 21965372.
2011
Needles, needles, everywhere!
Anesthesiology. 114(3) [DOI] 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318201c8a6. [PMID] 21263299.
2011
Use of the GlideScope for placement of a recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring endotracheal tube.
Journal of clinical anesthesia. 23(1):81-3 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jclinane.2009.12.013. [PMID] 21296257.
2011
Use of the Laryngeal Mask Airway-Aintree Intubating Catheter-fiberoptic bronchoscope technique for difficult intubation.
Journal of clinical anesthesia. 23(7):534-9 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jclinane.2011.02.005. [PMID] 21996015.
2010
Blood wastage reduction using Lean Sigma methodology.
Transfusion. 50(9):1887-96 [DOI] 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02679.x. [PMID] 20456700.
2009
Need for emergency surgical airway reduced by a comprehensive difficult airway program.
Anesthesia and analgesia. 109(6):1860-9 [DOI] 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b2531a. [PMID] 19713264.
2007
Prospective evaluation of pain and analgesic use following major elective intracranial surgery.
Journal of neurosurgery. 106(2):210-6 [PMID] 17410701.
2004
Strategies for airway management.
Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology. 18(4):531-48 [PMID] 15460544.
1991
Use of naloxone in the assessment of opiate dependence.
Life sciences. 49(24):1809-14 [PMID] 1943484.

Education

Graduate Certificate, Business of Medicine
2010 · Carey Business School
Residency, Anesthesiology
2000 · Johns Hopkins Hospital
Residency, Surgery
1997 · Nassau County Medical Center
Residency, Surgery
1996 · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
MD
1994 · University of Maryland

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