Heng Gan
MBBCH, FRCA, FRCPC, MRCPCH, MA
Investigator and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist, BC Children's Hospital
Anaesthesia
Samantha Pang and Nicholas West and Haoyu Zhao and Jessica Luo and Neil K. Chadha and Lynnie R. Correll and Heng Gan and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.1111/anae.7018002 / 2026
Jessica Luo and Nicholas C West and Samantha Pang and Julie M Robillard and Patricia Page and Neil K Chadha and Heng Gan and Lynnie R Correll and Randa Ridgway and Natasha Broemling and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.6519808 / 2024
Jmir Perioperative Medicine
Luo, J. and West, N.C. and Pang, S. and Robillard, J.M. and Page, P. and Chadha, N.K. and Gan, H. and Correll, L.R. and Ridgway, R. and Broemling, N. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Chen, J. and Sreepada, R.S. and Wood, M.D. and Loftsgard, K.C. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Morrison, C.
DOI: 10.2196/65198Pediatric Pulmonology
Ansermino, J.M. and Ginsburg, A.S. and Dunsmuir, D. and Karlen, W. and Gan, H. and Njeru, C.M. and Dumont, G.A.
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26208EClinicalMedicine
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.09.013 PubMed: 3183261210 / 2019
Journal of healthcare engineering
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.6.4.691 PubMed: 2701094801 / 2015
Journal of healthcare engineering
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.6.4.635 PubMed: 2701083101 / 2015
PloS one
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118055 PubMed: 2563594701 / 2015
PLoS ONE
Karlen, W. and Gan, H. and Chiu, M. and Dunsmuir, D. and Zhou, G.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118260PloS one
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099266 PubMed: 2491906206 / 2014
Journal of pediatric surgery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2014.02.069 PubMed: 2485177102 / 2014
IET Conference Publications
Karlen, W. and Wiens, M.O. and Gan, H. and Dunsmuir, D. and Chiu, M. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
Anesthesia and analgesia
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3182a9557e PubMed: 2425738912 / 2013
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6610140 PubMed: 2411032701 / 2013
GRAPP 2012 IVAPP 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications
Matkovi?, K. and Gan, H. and Ammer, A. and Bennett, D. and Purgathofer, W. and Terblanche, M.
• Researchers studying children undergoing anesthesia and surgery currently lack guidance about what outcomes are important to measure. As a result, a wide range of different outcomes are measured in their research, outcomes that have unclear relevance to children, parents, and their healthcare team.
• In this project we will be directly engaging members of these stakeholder groups to identify those outcomes that these stakeholders consider most important after surgery in children.
• The overall study aim is to ask key stakeholder groups to identify outcomes of greatest importance for pediatric patients undergoing anesthesia and surgery. Specifically, we will undertake surveys and semistructured interviews to gather views from pediatric surgical patients, their parents/guardians, and perioperative healthcare professionals about what outcomes are important.
• Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma are bone cancers that typically occur in children and are usually treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. The possibility of major blood loss during the operation is high and transfusion of donated blood, with all the attendant risks, is often required.
• Intra-operative cell salvage refers to the collection, processing, and re-transfusion of blood lost during surgery. This well-established technique minimizes the need for transfusion of donated blood, but its adoption for cancer surgery has been limited by the theoretical risk of reintroducing tumor cells into the patient’s bloodstream. While recent evidence that a special filter effectively removes tumor cells from salvaged blood has led to increased use of cell salvage during cancer surgery in adults, its use in children remains uncommon.
• In a new collaboration between The Department of Anesthesia and The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, we propose a two-part study to investigate the safety and efficacy of cell salvage during bone cancer surgery in children. Phase I is laboratory based and will use flow cytometry to determine the lower limit of detection of tumor cells in blood. In Phase II we will use patient blood collected through cell salvage, with and without a filter, to determine the number of tumor cells present.
Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award, 2012-2014
Best Poster Presentation, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists Annual Scientific Meeting, 2015
Mobile Health & Ambient Assistive Technology Challenge (Bronze), Conference on Mobile and Information Technologies in Medicine and Health, Prague, 2014
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