Dr. Christina M Spofford M.D.
Anesthesiologist
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Christina Spofford is an anesthesiologist practicing in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Spofford 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. Spofford also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Wi, Milwaukee Wi 2003
Med College Of Wisconsin 1999
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mechanotransduction via the elastin-laminin receptor (ELR) in resistance arteries.
- Possible bupropion interaction with ropivacaine: setting the stage for seizure?
- Perioperative fever and outcome in surgical patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Ketoprofen produces modality-specific inhibition of pain behaviors in rats after plantar incision.
- Continuous cervical paravertebral catheter knot.
- Evaluation of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) in a rat model of postoperative pain.
- Gene expression in skin, muscle, and dorsal root ganglion after plantar incision in the rat.
- Neuropeptide Y is analgesic in rats after plantar incision.
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