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Walker gets a Beckman Fellowship
September 10, 2024
As a Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow, Guowei Zhang spent the summer working on finding a safe and audiology-friendly anesthesia. Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) recording is a crucial technique for measuring hearing sensitivity. However, in animal ABRs require anesthesia, which can compromise both survival rates and result accuracy.
His work focused on testing 5 different anesthesia used in MRIs, ABRs, and animal surgery. He found that Dexmedetomidine is safer than the more traditional xylazine without compromising ABR results like with isofluorane.
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