CarolineThomasMD

Obstetrical Anesthesiology

Resident at Stanford Lucille Packard Children's Hospital

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Office
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone+1 630-220-5251

Caroline Thomas is an academic anesthesiologist who specializes in obstetric anesthesiology. Her clinical areas of interest include the management of medically and/or surgically complex obstetric patients. Her areas of research include the evaluation of heart function during labor, racial disparities in the provision of obstetric anesthesia care, how the provision of obstetric anesthesia impacts fetal outcomes, and anesthesia-related medical education topics.

McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern UniversityFellowship, Obstetric Anesthesiology, 2021 - 2022
University of ChicagoResidency, Anesthesiology, 2018 - 2021
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Pediatrics, 2015 - 2018
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of MedicineClass of 2015

PubMed

Journal Articles

Predictors of Empathic Compassion: Do Spirituality, Religion and Calling Matter?
Thomas C, Tak J, Cuceu M, Nikolic M, Jain S, Christou T, Yoon JD, Southern Medical Journal

Abstracts/Posters

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Parturients Undergoing General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
Thomas, C., Banayan, J., Lange, E Scavone, B., Grobman, W., Zhu, K., Peralta, F., Toledo, P., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, New Orleans, LA, 5/2023
Cushing’s syndrome in pregnancy: A diagnostic dilemma
Thomas, C, Neumann, K., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2022
Timely administration of sodium citrate for cesarean delivery under general anesthesia: a retrospective analysis
Thomas, C, Y. Zhu, E. Kenny, P. Toledo, Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2022
Obstetric anesthesia for a patient with HELLP syndrome versus SLE flare: A diagnostic challenge
Thomas C, Scavone B., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2021
Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in a postpartum patient with severe sepsis and associated cardiomyopathy
Thomas C, Scavone B., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2020
Obstetric Anesthesia for a Patient with Super-morbid Obesity and History of Disseminated Blastomycosis Complicated by Epidural Abscess
Thomas C, Scavone, B., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2020
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in parturients is associated with severe maternal morbidity
Choi V, Thomas C, Nizamuddin J, Gupta A, Arnolds D, Shahul S., Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 5/2020
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Lectures

The utility of POCUS in the management of mitral stenosis during labor
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Conferences in POCUS - 2/2022

Do epidurals cause autism? (No.) A review of the controversy and what patients and providers need to knowFebruary 2022

Member, ASA Abstract Review Subcommittee 2023 - Present
Member, Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Abstract Review Subcommittee 2022 - Present