Michael Schaefer

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow and Campus Mitte, Germany

University positions:6/88 - 8/92 Residency, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dep. of Anesthesiology, Germany8/92 -12/96 Postdoc Fellow of the Dep. of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA8/92 -12/96 Guest Scientist, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Intramural Research, Baltimore, USA3/97 -12/97 Instructor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dep. of Anesthesiology, Germany12/97- 6/98 Staff Anesthesiologist, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Germany6/98 ¿ 1/01 Senior Staff Anesthesiologist, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology andIntensive Care Medicine, Germany1/01 - 1/02 Associate Professor, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Germany1/02 ¿ now Full Professor, Charité University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, GermanyAwards- Scientific Directors Award, Division of Intramural Research/NIDA/NIH; 12/1994- NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIDA/NIH; 3/1996- National Institute on Drug Abuse / NIH, Young Investigator Award for the outstanding research report of 1996, 5/1996- Fresenius-Research Grant of German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, 2/1998.- Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award, International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), 7/1999- Award of the German Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Hamburg, 10/2000

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Pain Management: Acute Clinical (since 12 February 2008)

All recent recommendations

• 4.8
  Combining paracetamol (acetaminophen) with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs: a qualitative systematic review of analgesic efficacy for acute postoperative pain.
  Recommended by Pamela Macintyre, Michael Schaefer
  
• 9.0
  Referral practices in patients suffering from non-malignant chronic pain.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 9.0
  Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Somatosensory abnormalities in 1236 patients with different neuropathic pain syndromes.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.0
  Pain processing is faster than tactile processing in the human brain.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.0
  An ultra-low dose of naloxone added to lidocaine or lidocaine-fentanyl mixture prolongs axillary brachial plexus blockade.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.0
  Contact-free infrared thermography for assessing effects during acupuncture: a randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled crossover clinical trial.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.5
  No evidence for the development of acute tolerance to analgesic, respiratory depressant and sedative opioid effects in humans.
  Recommended by Dhanesh Gupta, Anne Lynn, Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.0
  Do surgical patients benefit from perioperative gabapentin/pregabalin? A systematic review of efficacy and safety.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.5
  Methylnaltrexone for opioid-induced constipation in advanced illness.
  Recommended by Peter Conzen with Daniel Chappell, Mellar Davis, Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.0
  A118G single nucleotide polymorphism of human mu-opioid receptor gene influences pain perception and patient-controlled intravenous morphine consumption after intrathecal morphine for postcesarean analgesia.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.4
  Antiinflammatory effect of peripheral nerve blocks after knee surgery: clinical and biologic evaluation.
  Recommended by Patricia Lavand'homme, Alain Borgeat, Michael Schaefer, Joel Katz with Nicole Carmichael
  
• 4.8
  A simple clinical maneuver to reduce laparoscopy-induced shoulder pain: a randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by Jill Mhyre, Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.0
  A randomised double blind trial of the effect of pre-emptive epidural ketamine on persistent pain after lower limb amputation.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 11.2
  Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, Nanna Finnerup, Hugh Hemmings, Emery Brown, Helge Eilers, David Archer, Cheryl Stucky with Daniel Vilceanu, Michael Schaefer