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Sinziana Avramescu

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Sinziana Avramescu

Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.

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Research

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Latest papers

Frailty Status and Preoperative Cardiac Risk Stratification in Older Adults Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.
Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026
Prevention of persistent pain with lidocaine infusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN): study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Trials · 2024
The Role of Virtual Reality in Screening, Diagnosing, and Rehabilitating Spatial Memory Deficits.
Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021

All 16 publications

Latest funding

Perioperative Vitamin C to reduce persistent pain after total knee arthroplasty (PROVISION): a multicentre randomized controlled trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Cognitive Outcomes after Dexmedetomidine sedation in Cardiac Surgery: CODEX RCT
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,620,125
Prevention of persistent pain with LidocAine iNfusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN): a multicentre randomized controlled trial
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,285,200

All 3 grants and awards

16 publications.

Frailty Status and Preoperative Cardiac Risk Stratification in Older Adults Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.

Chatziperi A, Diep C, Daza JF, Amado LA, Morales JF, Duceppe E, Jerath A, Avramescu S, Gandotra S, Lalu MM, McCluskey SA, McIsaac DI, Wijeysundera DN, FIT After Surgery Investigators

Journal of the American Heart Association2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1161/jaha.126.049360 PMID: 42261947

Prevention of persistent pain with lidocaine infusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN): study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial

Khan JS, Gilron I, Devereaux PJ, Clarke H, Ayach N, Tomlinson G, Quan ML, Ladha KS, Choi S, Munro A

Trials2024Open Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08151-4

The Role of Virtual Reality in Screening, Diagnosing, and Rehabilitating Spatial Memory Deficits.

Jonson M, Avramescu S, Chen D, Alam F

Frontiers in human neuroscience202138 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.628818 PMID: 33613216

Cognitive Outcomes after DEXmedetomidine sedation in cardiac surgery: CODEX randomised controlled trial protocol

Choi S, Jerath A, Jones P, Avramescu S, Djaiani G, Syed S, Saha T, Kaustov L, Kiss A, D"Aragon F

BMJ Open20215 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046851 PMID: W3155230218

Inhibiting α5 Subunit-Containing γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptors Attenuates Cognitive Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury

Shahin Khodaei, Sinziana Avramescu, Dian-Shi Wang, Heping Sheng, Nathan K. Chan, Irene Lecker, Alejandro Fernandez-Escobar, Gang Lei, Michael Bradley Dewar, Paul D. Whissell, ANDREW J. BAKER, Beverley Anne Orser

Critical Care Medicine201914 citations

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004161 PMID: 32205600

Future Directions for Geriatric Anesthesiology.

Desmarais P, Herrmann N, Alam F, Choi S, Avramescu S

Anesthesiology clinics20192 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2019.05.002 PMID: 31337487

Dexmedetomidine Prevents Excessive γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptor Function after Anesthesia

Dian-Shi Wang, Kirusanthy Kaneshwaran, Gang Lei, Fariya Mostafa, Junhui Wang, Irene Lecker, Sinziana Avramescu, Yu‐Feng Xie, Nathan K. Chan, Alejandro Fernandez-Escobar, Junsung Woo, Darren W.-H. Chan, Amy J. Ramsey, Jeremy M. Sivak, C. Justin Lee, Robert P. Bonin, Beverley Anne Orser

Anesthesiology201871 citations

DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000002311 PMID: 29889105

Preventing delirium: beyond dexmedetomidine.

Avramescu S, Wang DS, Choi S, Orser BA

Lancet (London, England)20175 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30661-x PMID: 28290991

δGABAA Receptors Are Necessary for Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus: Implications for Memory Behavior

Paul D. Whissell, Sinziana Avramescu, Dian-Shi Wang, Beverley Anne Orser

Anesthesia & Analgesia201622 citations

DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000001373 PMID: 27464975

Anesthesia research training: preparing for the future of our speciality

Sinziana Avramescu, Beverley Anne Orser

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie20164 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-016-0592-3 PMID: 26792281

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Sinziana Avramescu

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Frailty Status and Preoperative Cardiac Risk Stratification in Older Adults Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.

Prevention of persistent pain with lidocaine infusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN): study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial

The Role of Virtual Reality in Screening, Diagnosing, and Rehabilitating Spatial Memory Deficits.

Cognitive Outcomes after DEXmedetomidine sedation in cardiac surgery: CODEX randomised controlled trial protocol

Inhibiting α5 Subunit-Containing γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptors Attenuates Cognitive Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury

Future Directions for Geriatric Anesthesiology.

Dexmedetomidine Prevents Excessive γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptor Function after Anesthesia

Preventing delirium: beyond dexmedetomidine.

δGABAA Receptors Are Necessary for Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus: Implications for Memory Behavior

Anesthesia research training: preparing for the future of our speciality

Perioperative Vitamin C to reduce persistent pain after total knee arthroplasty (PROVISION): a multicentre randomized controlled trial

Cognitive Outcomes after Dexmedetomidine sedation in Cardiac Surgery: CODEX RCT

Prevention of persistent pain with LidocAine iNfusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN): a multicentre randomized controlled trial

Frequent collaborators

Beverley Orser

Stephen Choi

Angela Jerath

Fahad Alam

Richard Horner

Richard Brull

Sophia Wong

George Djaiani

Sakshi Gandotra

Alexander Huang

Peter Hedlin

Nicole Hodgson

Elena Parvez

Norman Buckley

Li Wang

Justin Busse

Stefan Hofer

Jeremy Sivak

Nathan Herrmann

David Mazer

Andrew Baker

Keyvan Karkouti

Wei-Yang Lu

Duminda Wijeysundera

Amy Ramsey

Frances Wright