Alex Sia

Department of Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore

Singapore National Medical Reseach Council,
Singapore Health Services Foundation and KK Hospital Research Centre for support.

Research interests - Combined spinal epidural analgesia, patient controlled epidural analgesia, computer assisted analgesia,alpha 2 adrenergic agonists for labor analgesia, genetics of pain

New York Academy of Sciences 1998-1999
Specialist Advisory Board, Academy of Medicine Singapore
Editor in Chief of the ASEAN Journal of Anaesthesiology
Editor, KK Hospital Review

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Obstetrical Anesthesiology (since 11 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Ten years of experience with accidental dural puncture and post-dural puncture headache in a tertiary obstetric anaesthesia department.
  Recommended by Alex Sia with Serene Leo
  
• 6.7
  Epidural anaesthesia and survival after intermediate-to-high risk non-cardiac surgery: a population-based cohort study.
  Recommended by Gregor Theilmeier with Jan Larmann, Alex Sia with Serene Leo, Alain Borgeat, John Laffey with Grainne McDermott
  
• 6.4
  Does tight heart rate control improve beta-blocker efficacy? An updated analysis of the noncardiac surgical randomized trials.
  Recommended by Michael Irwin, Alex Sia with Serene Leo
  
• 11.5
  Anesthesia awareness and the bispectral index.
  Recommended by Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, Philippa Newfield, Beverley Orser, Emery Brown, Harald Groeben, Benedikt Pannen, Manfred Seeberger, Alain Borgeat, Lynda Wells, Dhanesh Gupta, Alex Sia with Serene Leo, Paul Barash, Michael O'Connor, Masahiko Kawaguchi
  Dissent by Albert Dahan with Elise Sarton, Ville Jantti with Seppo Alahuhta
• 3.0
  Single-dose, extended-release epidural morphine (DepoDur) compared to conventional epidural morphine for post-cesarean pain.
  Recommended by Alex Sia with Dr Serene Leo
  
• 3.2
  Local anesthetics and mode of delivery: bupivacaine versus ropivacaine versus levobupivacaine.
  Recommended by David Wlody, Alex Sia
  
• 6.0
  A randomized comparison of programmed intermittent epidural bolus with continuous epidural infusion for labor analgesia.
  Recommended by Alex Sia
  
• 3.0
  Valdecoxib for postoperative pain management after cesarean delivery: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
  Recommended by Alex Sia
  
• 3.0
  The sitting versus right lateral position during combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery: block characteristics and severity of hypotension.
  Recommended by Alex Sia