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Colin McCartney

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ProfessorDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Colin McCartney

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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34 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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240

Publications

11,256

Citations

281

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Research

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Latest papers

Home-Based Prehabilitation for Older Surgical Patients With Frailty: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA surgery · 2026
Analgesic Benefits of Motor-sparing Fascial Plane Blocks in Comparison to Periarticular Local Infiltration Analgesia for Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Network Meta-analysis
Anesthesiology · 2025
Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify barriers and facilitators to peripheral nerve block use in older adult patients with a hip fracture: a national survey.
Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2025

All 240 publications

Latest funding

The Anesthesia for Lower limb revascularization to Optimize Functional OuTcomes (ALOFT) Trial: a pilot multicenter randomized trial
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$202,725
STRIVE before surgery trial: a vanguard pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$260,100
The Canadian Prehabilitation Network Review: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis to inform prehabilitation design and evaluation
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 9 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 240 publications.

Home-Based Prehabilitation for Older Surgical Patients With Frailty: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

McIsaac DI, Lee S, Fergusson D, Gillis C, Khadaroo RG, Meliambro A, Muscedere J, Eskander A, Moloo H, Nelson G, Saha T, Chun R, Serrano PE, Wijeysundera DN, Taljaard M, PREPARE Trial Investigator Group, Barnes K, Boet S, Boland L, Branje K, Breau R, Bryson GL, Dhalla I, Dixon E, Dobson G, Farnand M, Forster A, Gagne S, Hladkowicz E, Holroyd-Leduc J, Huang A, Hutton J, Jacobsohn E, Joanisse J, Johnson A, Johnson S, Khalil N, Kidd G, Lalu M, Lavallée LT, Le T, Levine M, Love C, McCartney C, McMullen M, Bergamascki LM, Moore R, Mozel M, Nagpal S, Nantel J, Power B, Scheede-Bergdahl C, Tamblyn-Watts L, Thavorn K, Trottier D, van Walraven C, Yang I

JAMA surgery202629 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.5288 PMID: 41335421

Analgesic Benefits of Motor-sparing Fascial Plane Blocks in Comparison to Periarticular Local Infiltration Analgesia for Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Network Meta-analysis

Nasir Hussain, Richard Brull, Alex T. Freedenberg, Chris Vannabouathong, Ryan Steven D'Souza, Steven Havlik, Peyton Beachy, Antonius Gunawan, Tristan E. Weaver, Daniel I. McIsaac, Colin J. L. McCartney, Faraj W. Abdallah

Anesthesiology20258 citations

DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000005607 PMID: 40489642

Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify barriers and facilitators to peripheral nerve block use in older adult patients with a hip fracture: a national survey.

Gu Y, McIsaac DI, Hladkowicz E, Barnes K, Boet S, McCartney C, Ramlogan R

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-025-02912-8 PMID: 39953306

Surgeon Sex and Postoperative Resource Utilization: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Heybati K, Satkunasivam R, Aminoltejari K, Thomas HS, Salles A, Coburn N, Wright FC, Gotlib Conn L, Luckenbaugh AN, Ranganathan S, Riveros C, Sutherland J, McCartney C, Armstrong K, Bass B, Detsky AS, Jerath A, Wallis CJD

Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/as9.0000000000000569 PMID: 40557345

Association between anaesthesia-surgery team sex diversity and major morbidity.

Hallet J, Sutradhar R, Flexman A, McIsaac DI, Carrier FM, Turgeon AF, McCartney C, Chan WC, Coburn N, Eskander A, Jerath A, Perez d'Empaire P, Lorello G

The British journal of surgery202446 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znae097 PMID: 38747328

Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks.

El-Boghdadly K, Albrecht E, Wolmarans M, Mariano ER, Kopp S, Perlas A, Thottungal A, Gadsden J, Tulgar S, Adhikary S, Aguirre J, Agur AMR, Altıparmak B, Barrington MJ, Bedforth N, Blanco R, Bloc S, Boretsky K, Bowness J, Breebaart M, Burckett-St Laurent D, Carvalho B, Chelly JE, Chin KJ, Chuan A, Coppens S, Costache I, Dam M, Desmet M, Dhir S, Egeler C, Elsharkawy H, Bendtsen TF, Fox B, Franco CD, Gautier PE, Grant SA, Grape S, Guheen C, Harbell MW, Hebbard P, Hernandez N, Hogg RMG, Holtz M, Ihnatsenka B, Ilfeld BM, Ip VHY, Johnson RL, Kalagara H, Kessler P, Kwofie MK, Le-Wendling L, Lirk P, Lobo C, Ludwin D, Macfarlane AJR, Makris A, McCartney C, McDonnell J, McLeod GA, Memtsoudis SG, Merjavy P, Moran EML, Nader A, Neal JM, Niazi AU, Njathi-Ori C, O'Donnell BD, Oldman M, Orebaugh SL, Parras T, Pawa A, Peng P, Porter S, Pulos BP, Sala-Blanch X, Saporito A, Sauter AR, Schwenk ES, Sebastian MP, Sidhu N, Sinha SK, Soffin EM, Stimpson J, Tang R, Tsui BCH, Turbitt L, Uppal V, van Geffen GJ, Vermeylen K, Vlassakov K, Volk T, Xu JL, Elkassabany NM

Regional anesthesia and pain medicine202443 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/rapm-2023-104884 PMID: 38050174

Surgeon Sex and Health Care Costs for Patients Undergoing Common Surgical Procedures.

Wallis CJD, Jerath A, Aminoltejari K, Kaneshwaran K, Salles A, Buntin MB, Coburn NG, Wright FC, Gotlib Conn L, Heybati K, Luckenbaugh AN, Ranganathan S, Riveros C, McCartney C, Armstrong KA, Bass BL, Detsky AS, Satkunasivam R

JAMA surgery202416 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6031 PMID: 38019486

Association Between Anesthesiologist Sex and Patients' Postoperative Outcomes: A Population-based Cohort Study.

Jerath A, Satkunasivam R, Kaneshwaran K, Aminoltejari K, Chang A, MacDonell DS, Kealey A, Ladowski S, Sarmah A, Flexman AM, Lorello GR, Nabecker S, Coburn N, Conn LG, Klaassen Z, Ranganathan S, Riveros C, McCartney CJL, Detsky AS, Wallis CJD

Annals of surgery202416 citations

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000006217 PMID: 38264927

Association of peri‐operative prescription of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs with continued prescription of opioids after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective claims‐based cohort study

Nasir Hussain, Richard Brull, Ian Gilron, Terri E. Weaver, Hira Shahzad, Ryan S. D’Souza, Mahmoud Abdel‐Rasoul, Hance A. Clarke, Colin J. L. McCartney, Faraj W. Abdallah

Anaesthesia202415 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/anae.16259 PMID: 38385772

Cystatin C or creatinine for pre-operative assessment of kidney function and risk of post-operative acute kidney injury: a secondary analysis of the METS cohort study

John Richard Prowle, Bernard Lewis Croal, Thomas E F Abbott, Brian H. Cuthbertson, Duminda Nalaka Wijeysundera, for the METS study investigators, Paul Stewart Myles, Michael A. Shulman, Sophie K. A. Wallace, Paddy Farrington, Bruce Thompson, Mathew J. Ellis, Brigitte M. Borg, Ross K. Kerridge, Janice G. Douglas, James R. Brannan, Jeffrey J. Pretto, M. Guy Godsall, N.J. Beauchamp, Scott Allen, Ann Tyrrell Kennedy, E. Wright, J. Malherbe, Hilmy Ismail, Bernhard Riedel, Andrew Melville, H. Sivakumar, A. Murmane, Kay Kenchington, Y. Kirabiyik, et al. (171 authors)

Clinical Kidney Journal202412 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfae004 PMID: 38269033

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Colin McCartney

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Home-Based Prehabilitation for Older Surgical Patients With Frailty: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Analgesic Benefits of Motor-sparing Fascial Plane Blocks in Comparison to Periarticular Local Infiltration Analgesia for Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Network Meta-analysis

Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify barriers and facilitators to peripheral nerve block use in older adult patients with a hip fracture: a national survey.

Surgeon Sex and Postoperative Resource Utilization: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Association between anaesthesia-surgery team sex diversity and major morbidity.

Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks.

Surgeon Sex and Health Care Costs for Patients Undergoing Common Surgical Procedures.

Association Between Anesthesiologist Sex and Patients' Postoperative Outcomes: A Population-based Cohort Study.

Association of peri‐operative prescription of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs with continued prescription of opioids after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective claims‐based cohort study

Cystatin C or creatinine for pre-operative assessment of kidney function and risk of post-operative acute kidney injury: a secondary analysis of the METS cohort study

Frequent collaborators

Vincent Chan

Daniel McIsaac

Joel Katz

Anahi Perlas

Stephen Choi

Duminda Wijeysundera

Hance Clarke

Angela Jerath

Manoj Lalu

Alan Forster

Richard Brull

Monica Taljaard

Keyvan Karkouti

Carl van Walraven

Cyril Mazer

Frances Chung

Allen Huang

Husein Moloo

David Mazer

Dean Fergusson

Dimitri Anastakis

Charlotte Anderson

Kathleen Nelligan

Ron Butler

Stuart McCluskey

Pierre Beaulieu

Paul McHardy

Susan Reid