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Charl De Wet, MD

Current Position
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

Specialty Areas
Anesthesiology

Mailing Address
Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology 660 South Euclid Avenue Campus Box 8054 St. Louis, MO 63110

Areas of Clinical Interest
Anesthesiology

Board Certification
Anesthesiology -- Certified

Medical Education

B.A.: Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1984

MBChB: Faculty of Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 1990

Residency: Anesthesiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1998

Fellowship: Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1999

Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, California, 2000

Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Selected or Recent Publications
Avidan M, Ali S, Tymkew H, Jacobsohn E, De Wet C, Hill L, and Pasque M: Mild Hypercapnia after Uncomplicated Heart Surgery Is Not Associated with Hemodynamic Compromise, J. of Cardiothoracic & Vas Anesthesia. 2007 Jun: 21(3): 371-4.

Rosemeier F, De Wet CJ, Hantler C, Jacobsohn E: Severe acute tricuspid regurgitation after the withdrawal of an entrapped pulmonary artery catheter. J. Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2006 Dec: 20(6): 910-1.

Jacobsohn E, Avidan MS, Hantler CB, Rosemeier F, DeWet, CJ: Case report: inferior vena cava right atrial anastomotic stenosis after bicaval orthotopic heart transplantation. Can J. Anaesth, 2006, Oct: 53(10): 1039-43.

Skidmore K, Jones C, DeWet CJ, Rouine-Rapp K Cahalan M, Merrick S, Russell I: Flooding the Surgical Field with Carbon Dioxide during Open-heart Surgery Improves Segmental Wall Motion, Journal of Extracorporeal Technology, 2006 Jun: 38(2), p. 123.

Jacobsohn E, DeWet CJ, Tymkew H, Hill L, Avidan M, Levy N, Bruemmer-Smith: Use of the Patient State Index (PSI) to assist in the diagnosis of perioperative neurological injury and brain death. J. Clin Monit Comput 2005 Jun: 19(3): 219-22.

Stanko LK, Jacobsohn E, Tam, JW, DeWet CJ, Avidan M: Transthoracic Echocardiography: Impact on Diagnosis and Management in Tertiary Care Intensive Care Units, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2005, Aug 33 (4): 492-496.

Hill, LL, De Wet, CJ, Jacobsohn, et al.: Perioperative and Peripartum Substitution of Inhaled for Intravenous Prostacyclin in Patients with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Anesthesiology 2004, June: 100(6): 1603-5.

De Wet CJ, Affleck DG, Jacobsohn E, Avidan MS, Tymkew H, Hill L, Zanaboni P, Moazami N, Smith JR: Inhaled Prostacyclin is Safe, effective and more affordable in patients with pulmonary hypertension, right heart dysfunction and refractory hypoxemia after cardiothoracic surgery. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery J. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004, Apr: 127(4): 1058-66.

Hogue, CW, De Wet, CJ, Schechtman, KB, Davila-Roman, VG: The importance of prior stroke for the adjusted risk of neurologic injury after cardiac surgery for women and men. Anesthesiology. 2003 April:98(4):823-9.

Hill LL, De Wet CJ, Hogue CW: Management of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery-part II: prevention and treatment. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2002 Oct; 16(5):626-37.

Hopkins D, Shipton EA, Potgieter D, Van der Merwe CA, Boon, J, De Wet CJ, Murphy J: Comparison of tramadol and morphine via subcutaneous PCA following major orthopaedic surgery. Can J Anaesth 45:435, 1998

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