Barbara L. Leighton, MD
Current Position
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Specialty Areas
Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
660 South Euclid Avenue
Campus Box 8054
St. Louis,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Anesthesiology
Areas of Research Interest
The Effect of Epidural Anesthesia on Labor Progress and Outcome
Sleep Apnea in Parturients
Epidural Anesthesia Test Doses
Board Certification
Anesthesiology
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Certified
Medical Education
A.B.: Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1977
M.D.: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1981
Residency: Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1984
Fellowship: Obstetric Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1985
Hospital Affiliations
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America 2008-2010 (Best Doctors, Inc)
Second Place Essayist, Gertie Marx Resident Research Contest in Obstetric Anesthesia, 1985
Select Publications
Kjaer K, Comerford M, Kondilis L, DiMaria L, Abramovitz S, Kiselv M, Samuels J, Gadalla F, Leighton BL. Oral Sodium Citrate Increases Nausea Among Elective Cesarean Delivery Patients. Can J Anesth, 2006; 53: 776-80
Degler SM, Dowling RD, Sucherman DR, Leighton BL. Awake Intubation Using an Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway in a Parturient with Spina Bifida. Int J Ob Anesth, 2005; 14: 77-83
Fatheree RS, Leighton BL. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome After an Exothermic Baralyme-Sevoflurane Reaction. Anesthesiology, 2004; 101(2): 531-533
Hill LL, de Wet CJ, Jacobsohn E, Leighton BL, Tymkew H. Peripartum Substitution of Inhaled for Intravenous Prostacyclin in a Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension. Anesthesiology, 2004; 100(6): 1603-5
Rosemeier F, Shumway JB, Schallen EH, Bottros L, Leighton BL. Successful Pregnancy and Cesarean Delivery 22 Years after Separation in an Ischiopagus Tetrapus Conjoined Twin. Anesthesiology, 2004; 100(6): 1601-3