Helen W Karl, MD

Helen W Karl, MD

On staff since November 1990

Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research

"I chose to become a pediatric anesthesiologist because (in 1980) I thought the subspecialty provided the greatest challenges and greatest rewards of all the areas of anesthesiology. We provide care for infants weighing less than a pound and for high school football players more than 200 times their size. Sometimes they are critically ill and would die without the operation; sometimes they are basically healthy, but frightened of an unusual environment. It is a privilege to care for these young people near the beginning of their lives."

  • Biography

    I have been an academic pediatric anesthesiologist for 30 years. During that time, I have always taken care of patients, providing general and regional anesthesia and teaching the next generation of providers to do the same. I have had the good fortune to have a wide variety of additional parts to my job: inpatient pain management, clinical research, basic science research, writing and public speaking.

    Pediatric anesthesiology and pain management have grown substantially, and we now have far more sophisticated understanding and equipment than we used to. It has been a pleasure to have been a small part of that growth; I look forward to ongoing learning and teaching.

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  • Publications

    Manuscripts in Refereed Journals

    • Hunyady A, Liston DE, Karl HW
      Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy and Sleep Disordered Breathing
      Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Lecture Series, sponsored by the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia - Global Committee, 2017 Nov 7
    • Moesker, A.A., Karl, H.W. Trescot, A. M
      Treatment of phantom limb pain by cryoneurolysis of the amputated nerve
      Pain Practice, 2014 : 14(1)52-6
    • Karl, H., Tyler, D. C., Miser, A. W.
      Controlled trial of morphine vs. hydromorphone for patient-controlled analgesia in children with postoperative pain
      Pain Medicine, 2012 : 131658-1659
    • Moesker, A. A., Karl, H., Trescot, A. M.
      Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain By Cryoneurolysis of the Amputated Nerve
      Pain Practice

    Manuscripts Submitted

    • Trescot AM, Karl HW
      Obturator Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 64
    • Burnett C, Karl HW
      Suprascapular Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 34
    • Witkin L, Gulati A, Zhang T, Karl HW
      Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 61
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Trescot A, Karl HW
      Medial Plantar Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 75
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Karl HW, Trescot A
      Distal Saphenous Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 59
    • Trescot A, Karl HW, Brown MN, Pearce B
      Proximal Saphenous Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 58
    • Seroussi R, Singh V, Karl HW
      Radial Nerve at the Elbow
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 35
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Trescot A, Karl HW
      Tibial Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 73
    • Sasaki K, Tick H
      Non-pharmacologic Treatments of Peripheral Nerve Entrapment
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 5,
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Vanetti T, Trescot A, Karl HW
      Lateral Plantar Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 74
    • Trescot A, Krashin D
      Epidemiology and Pathophysiology
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 1,
    • Gulati A, Krashin D, Karl HW
      Surgical Treatment of Nerve Entrapment Syndromes
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 10
    • Murinova N, Chiu SC, Krashin D, Karl HW
      Common Peroneal Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 67
    • Murinova N, Chiu SC, Krashin D, Karl HW
      Superficial Peroneal Nerve
      . In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 68
    • Olamikan S, Karl HW
      Long Thoracic Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 30
    • Pearce B, Brown MN, Karl HW
      Deep Peroneal Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 69
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Karl HW
      Inferior Calcaneal Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 76
    • Gulati A, Karl HW, Zhang T, Trescot A
      Neuromodulation for Treatment of Nerve Entrapment Syndromes
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 9,
    • Brown MN, Pearce B, Vanetti T, Trescot A, Karl HW
      Medial Calcaneal Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 77
    • Trescot AM, Karl HW
      Radial Nerve at the Wrist
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 36
    • Burnett C, Karl HW
      Axillary Nerve
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 31
    • Kaplan E, Karl HW
      Abdominal Cutaneous Nerves
      In Trescot AM (ed.) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 42

    Published Abstracts

    • Stogicza, A, Racz E, Karl HW, Trescot AM
      Bolus Versus Continuous Infusions for Epidural Blocks: A Cadaveric Study.
      2014 April

    Other Publications

    • Coté CJ, Cohen IT, Suresh S, Rabb M, Rose JB, Weldon BC, Davis PJ, Bikhazi GB, Karl HW, Hummer KA, Hannallah RS, Khoo KC, Collins P
      A comparison of three doses of a commercially prepared oral midazolam syrup in children.
      11772797 Anesthesia and analgesia, 2002 Jan. : 37-43, table of contents
    • Karl, H., Law, E., McGinn, K.
      Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
      L Manchikanti, P Christo, A Trescot, and J Giordano (Ed.), Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board Review
    • Liston DE, Hunyady A, Karl HW
      Pediatric Airway Management for the Non-Anesthesiologist
      Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Lecture Series, sponsored by the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia – Global Committee
    • Karl, H.W. Trescot, A. M
      Nerve entrapment headaches at the temple: Zygomaticotemporal and/or auriculotemporal nerve?
      Pain Physician , 22
    • Trescot, A. M., Brown, M. N., Karl, H.
      Infrapatellar Saphenous Neuralgia: Diagnosis and Treatment
      Pain Physician

  • Presentations

    Presentation Title Event Location Date
    Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Review Course St.Louis, MO Aug. 2013
    Development of Pain Systems and Neonatal Pain Management American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Review Course St.Louis, MO Aug. 2013
    Bolus Versus Continuous Infusions for Epidural Blocks: A Cadaveric Study University of Washington, Academic evening University of Washington, Seattle, WA May 2013