2024-2025
Ongoing Prospective Projects
- Smith, Adams, Spiro, Hicks, Hathaway—CRYPTICS Clinical trial (Design of the Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Dimethyl Sulfoxide Cryopreserved Platelets to Liquid Stored Platelets in Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery - ScienceDirect)
- Hicks, Predicting, Preventing, and Reacting to Adverse Events in the Cardiothoracic Operating Room. IRB reviewed, exempt. Registry project with Roux Institute.
Retrospective Work in Progress
- Hicks, A clinical comparison of rigid plate fixation and wire cerclage sternotomy closure: Proposal for a retrospective, propensity scored analysis. IRB approved retrospective record review, data collection in progress.
Publications
- Maxey-Jones, C, Seelhammer, TG, Arabia, FA, Cho, B, Cardonell, B, Smith, D, Leo, V, Dias, J, Shore-Lesserson, L, Hartmann, J. TEG 6s-Guided Algorithm for Optimizing Patient Blood Management in Cardiovascular Surgery: Systematic Literature Review and Expert Opinion. JCVA. 2025 May
- Kellegrew J, Hicks A, Gill L, Chemmanam I, Mountjoy R. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ilioinguinal and Iliohypogastric Nerve Blocks: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2024 Jan 23;18(1):e01740. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001740. PMID: 38259135.
Presentations/Participation in Professional Activities
- McAuley, JP, Beers-Mulroy, B, Smith, D. VV ECMO for Large Carinal Tumor Resection and Reconstruction of the Airway. Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium, Montreal, Canada, April 2025
- Olson, B, Kellegrew, J, Hicks, A. Emergency Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement or Pump the Breaks? SCA Conference, Montreal Canada, April 2025
- Woodward, Z, Hathaway, J, Hassan, A. Right and Anomalous Left Circumflex Coronary Artery Occlusions Following Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement. SCA Conference, Montreal Canada, April 2025
- McAuley, JP, Spiro, C. Staged Sternotomy with Peripheral Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Endoclamp for High-Risk Aortic Pseudoaneurysm Repair. SCA Conference, Montreal Canada, April 2025
- Leise, A, Agrondia, S, Wigant, K, Kramer, R, Hassan, A, Hicks, A. The association of anesthetic and analgesic medications with new onset post-operative atrial fibrillation in adult patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. SCA Conference, Montreal Canada, April 2025
- Bergbower. MaineHealth Blue Star Investigator Training Program. MHIR. April 9-10, 2026.
- Bergbower, “Utilization of Commercial Point of Care Histone Testing to Predict Outcomes for Hospitalized Trauma Patients.” ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 10/10/2025-10/14/2025
- Bergbower, “Can We Go Now? Cardiac Anesthesia in Non-Cardiac Surgical Emergencies.” ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 10/10/2025-10/14/2025
- Bergbower, “It Came from the Lung: Management of a Massive Myxoinflammatory Fibroblastic Sarcoma’s Metastatic Minion.” ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 10/10/2025-10/14/2025
- Bergbower, “Anesthetic Management for Repair of a Complex Grade IV Paraesophageal Hernia Pressing Against the Heart in a 79-Year-Old Man.” ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 10/10/2025-10/14/2025
- Anne Hicks. Panel moderator: Resident and Fellow poster session. Group Discussion Leader, Echo Essentials Masterclass. SCA Annual Meeting, Montreal, 4/26-4/29/2025.
Faculty & Fellow: Conferences Attended 2025-2026
- ABA Board Examiners (Hathaway, Allyn)
- MITE Faculty Development Conference
- Society Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA)
- Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium
- Society of Academic Anesthesiology Association (SAAA)
- Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA)