Amy Price is a Senior Research Scientist with the Anesthesia, Informatics and and Media Lab and The Associate Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Summer Institute. She is an Editor at The BMJ and earned her Doctorate in Evidence Based Health Care at The University of Oxford.
The Learnly Anesthesia/Stanford AIM Lab Evidence Service is currently dedicated to assisting front line anesthesiology providers in their efforts against the current COVID-19 pandemic. This page will be updated regularly with our work as we synthesize current evidence and disseminate it to hard working clinicians serving patients and their communities.
Amy Price, DPhil (Oxon) Senior Research Scientist, Stanford AIM Lab and Larry Chu, MD Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine and Director, Stanford AIM Lab and Learnly Anesthesia
Members of the Learnly Anesthesia/Stanford AIM Lab Evidence Service include: Dhwani Shah, Kathie Paul Wilkerson, Urvi Gupta, and Sylvie Dobrota.
Current Evidence-based Reviews:
- COVID-19 Testing
- Addressing COVID-19 face mask shortages
- Physical barriers during anesthesia procedures
- How well is the fit of N95 Masks preserved following decontamination by 70C heat, or UV intervention
- Should we use plastic sheets over patients during intubation and extubation? (Answer Due May 10th)
- How much protection does the N95 Mask offer against COVID-19 and how does it work? (Answer Due April 14th)
Current questions under review:
Do not use anything in your home to disinfect contaminated equipment. Please do not heat your masks in a home oven!
Our reports do not advocate or advise on practices and suggest that you strictly adhere to your hospital’s policies and procedures.