Dr. Harold S. Minkowitz M.D.
Anesthesiologist
1500 CITYWEST BLVD STE 300 HOUSTON TX, 77042About
Dr. Harold Minkowitz is an anesthesiologist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Minkowitz 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. Minkowitz also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ Of The Witwatersrand- Med Sch- Johannesburg- So Africa 1988
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Postoperative pain management in patients undergoing major surgery after remifentanil vs. fentanyl anesthesia. Multicentre Investigator Group.
- Patient-controlled analgesia. Its South African debut in a provincial hospital.
- The effect of residual neuromuscular blockade on the speed of reversal with sugammadex.
- Intranasal ketorolac for acute postoperative pain.
- Intravenous buspirone for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Clinical evaluation of XaraColl(®), a bupivacaine-collagen implant, for postoperative analgesia in two multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot studies.
- A randomized, multicenter, pilot study comparing the efficacy and safety of a bupivacaine-collagen implant (XaraColl(®)) with the ON-Q PainBuster(®) Post-op Pain Relief System following open gynecological surgery.
- A feasibility study to investigate the use of a bupivacaine-collagen implant (XaraColl) for postoperative analgesia following laparoscopic surgery.
- Comparison of the efficacy and safety of dual-opioid treatment with morphine plus oxycodone versus oxycodone/acetaminophen for moderate to severe acute pain after total knee arthroplasty.
- Development and validation of a risk score to identify patients at high risk for opioid-related adverse drug events.
- Adverse drug events among patients receiving postsurgical opioids in a large health system: risk factors and outcomes.
- The role of sublingual sufentanil nanotabs for pain relief.
- Outcomes related to postsurgical opioids--reply.
- Development of the fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system (ITS) for patient-controlled analgesia of postoperative pain management.
- A review of sufentanil and the sufentanil sublingual tablet system for acute moderate to severe pain.
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