
Dr. Michael Alan Ashburn MD, MPH
Anesthesiologist | Pain Medicine
1840 South St Tuttleman Building Philadelphia PA, 19146About
Dr. Michael Ashburn is an anesthesiologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Ashburn 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. Ashburn also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ of South Al Coll of Med, Mobile Al 1984
University of South Alabama College of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- 1988
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Pain Medicine- 1993
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Iontophoresis: noninvasive drug delivery.
- Evaluating skin anesthesia after administration of a local anesthetic system consisting of an S-Caine patch and a controlled heat-aided drug delivery (CHADD) patch in volunteers.
- A pilot study assessing the impact of heat on the transdermal delivery of testosterone.
- Noninvasive drug delivery.
- Conversion to oral controlled-release oxycodone from intravenous opioid analgesic in the postoperative setting.
- The American health care system: is the patient in critical condition?
- Adverse events associated with postoperative opioid analgesia: a systematic review.
- Assessing the impact of heat on the systemic delivery of fentanyl through the transdermal fentanyl delivery system.
- Fraud and abuse: a pain physician's guide.
- Using the "TOPS," an outcomes instrument for multidisciplinary outpatient pain treatment.
- The legal implications of healthcare communications: what every pain physician needs to know.
- Older and younger adults in pain management programs in the United States: differences and similarities.
- Novel delivery systems: oral transmucosal and intranasal transmucosal.
- Heated lidocaine/tetracaine patch (Synera, Rapydan) compared with lidocaine/prilocaine cream (EMLA) for topical anaesthesia before vascular access.
- Contribution of a heating element to topical anesthesia patch efficacy prior to vascular access: results from two randomized, double-blind studies.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2011-2012 Recognized by Best Doctors in America2009-2010
Treatments
- Nerve Blocks, Trigger Point Injections, Pain Management And More
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Pinched Nerve
- Multiple Sclerosis (ms)
- Pain
- Opiate Dependence
Professional Memberships
- Member American Academy of Pain Medicine
- Member American Medicial Association
- Member American Pain Society
- Member American Society of Anesthesiologists
- Member International Anesthesia Research Society
- Member International Association for the Study of Pain
- Member Pennsylvania Medical Society
Dr. Michael Alan Ashburn MD, MPH's Practice location
Practice At 1840 South St Tuttleman Building
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