Dr. John Louis Fontana MD
Anesthesiologist
927 East Blvd Charlotte NC, 28203About
Dr. John Fontana is an anesthesiologist practicing in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Fontana ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Fontana also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1987
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The anesthetic and physiologic effects of an intravenous administration of a halothane lipid emulsion (5% vol/vol)
- Intravenous pyruvate prolongs survival during hemorrhagic shock in swine.
- A modified wake-up test for use in very young children undergoing spinal surgery.
- Pyruvate improves cerebral metabolism during hemorrhagic shock.
- Porcine-specific hemoglobin saturation measurements.
- Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in a dialysis graft.
- High frequencies of clindamycin and tetracycline resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pulsed-field type USA300 isolates collected at a Boston ambulatory health center.
- Thyroid storm. Potential perioperative crisis.
- Spatial and temporal variation of dung beetle assemblages in a fragmented landscape at eastern humid Chaco.
- Oxygen consumption and cardiovascular function in children during profound intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution.
- Anesthetic considerations for neonatal and infant patients.
- Profound normovolemic hemodilution: hemostatic effects in patients and in a porcine model.
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