Valerie Billard

Service d'Anesthesie, Institut Gustave Roussy, France

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > General Pharmacology (since 15 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 6.9
  Anesthetic technique for radical prostatectomy surgery affects cancer recurrence: a retrospective analysis.
  Recommended by Marc De Kock with Patrice Forget, Andreas Sandner-Kiesling with Rigaud Marcel, Girish Joshi, Valerie Billard, Brendan Finucane, John Laffey
  
• 6.4
  Residual neuromuscular blockade and critical respiratory events in the postanesthesia care unit.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard, Mark Nunnally
  
• 6.0
  Pharmacodynamic modelling of the bispectral index response to propofol-based anaesthesia during general surgery in children.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard
  
• 6.6
  The effects of mild perioperative hypothermia on blood loss and transfusion requirement.
  Recommended by Cesare Gregoretti, Harald Groeben, Valerie Billard, Kenneth Drasner with Luke Liu
  
• 4.8
  Intraoperative esmolol infusion in the absence of opioids spares postoperative fentanyl in patients undergoing ambulatory laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
  Recommended by Dhanesh Gupta, Valerie Billard
  
• 8.4
  Continuous preperitoneal infusion of ropivacaine provides effective analgesia and accelerates recovery after colorectal surgery: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
  Recommended by Andreas Sandner-Kiesling, Filippo La Torre, Valerie Billard, Alain Borgeat
  
• 4.8
  Differential dynamic of action on cortical and subcortical structures of anesthetic agents during induction of anesthesia.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard, M MacIver
  
• 3.0
  When is a bispectral index of 60 too low?: Rational processed electroencephalographic targets are dependent on the sedative-opioid ratio.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard
  
• 3.0
  Reduced heart rate variability: an indicator of cardiac uncoupling and diminished physiologic reserve in 1,425 trauma patients.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard
  
• 6.5
  Can anesthetic technique for primary breast cancer surgery affect recurrence or metastasis?
  Recommended by Michael Fisch, John Laffey, Valerie Billard
  
• 3.0
  Is depth of anesthesia, as assessed by the Bispectral Index, related to postoperative cognitive dysfunction and recovery?
  Recommended by Valerie Billard
  
• 6.0
  Reflex pupillary dilatation in response to skin incision and alfentanil in children anaesthetized with sevoflurane: a more sensitive measure of noxious stimulation than the commonly used variables.
  Recommended by Valerie Billard