Professor in Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Medical School
Anesthesiology
Dr. Honorio Benzon, MD
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Honorio Benzon is an expert in the field of Anesthesiology. He researched medicine at University Hospital - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He over the years received 6 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Honorio Benzon, MD is a published physician as well. He has 67 publications published. The latest was: Oral anticoagulants and regional anesthesia: a perspective. Doctor Honorio Benzon, MD is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Evolving Definitions and Pharmacologic Management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
- Safeguards to Prevent Neurologic Complications after Epidural Steroid Injections: Consensus Opinions from a Multidisciplinary Working Group and National Organizations.
- Epidural injections in prevention of surgery for spinal pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Epidural steroid injections: update on efficacy, safety, and newer medications for injection.
- Diagnostic criteria and treatment of discogenic pain: a systematic review of recent clinical literature.
- Advances in topical analgesics.
- Compounded steroids for epidural injections: what are the issues?
- Prescription patterns of pain medicine physicians.
- Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a patient with postdural puncture headache.
- Piriformis syndrome: anatomic considerations, a new injection technique, and a review of the literature.
- Nerve stimulator-assisted evoked motor response predicts the latency and success of a single-injection sciatic block.
- Transforaminal injection of steroids: should we continue?
- Comparison of the different approaches to saphenous nerve block.
- The neuropathic pain scales.
- The role of computerized tomography-myelography in a patient with spontaneous intracranial hypotension from multiple cerebrospinal fluid leaks.
- Comparison of the particle sizes of different steroids and the effect of dilution: a review of the relative neurotoxicities of the steroids.
- Studies on diagnostic injections and surgery for low back pain: problems, advances, and opportunities.
- A case report of reappearance of spinal anesthesia.
- Radiofrequency applications to dorsal root ganglia: a literature review.
- Evidence-based case report: the prevention and management of postherpetic neuralgia with emphasis on interventional procedures.
- Ultrasound-assisted and evoked motor response stimulation of the deep peroneal nerve.
- Clopidogrel and neuraxial block: the role of the PFA II and P2Y12 assays.
- Regional anesthesia in the patient receiving antithrombotic or thrombolytic therapy: American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Evidence-Based Guideline...
- Factor VII levels and international normalized ratios in the early phase of warfarin therapy.
- 10. Thoracic pain.
- Implantable devices and magnetic resonance imaging: can the two coexist?
- Scalene muscle injections for neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome: case series.
- Perioperative single dose systemic dexamethasone for postoperative pain: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Perioperative single dose ketorolac to prevent postoperative pain: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.
- Regional anesthesia in the anticoagulated patient: defining the risks (the second ASRA Consensus Conference on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Anticoagulation).
- Correlation between evoked motor response of the sciatic nerve and sensory blockade.
- Caution in performing epidural injections in patients on several antiplatelet drugs.
- Pain on intramuscular injection of bupivacaine, ropivacaine, with and without dexamethasone.
- Postdural puncture headache: mechanisms, treatment, and prevention.
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak treated by aspiration and epidural blood patch under computed tomography guidance.
- Pulsed radiofrequency: a critical review of its efficacy.
- Relief of back pain following removal of parathyroid adenoma.
- Convulsions secondary to intravascular phenol: a hazard of celiac plexus block.
- Elevated carbon monoxide levels from exposure to methylene chloride.
- Importance of documenting complete sympathetic denervation after sympathectomy.
- Epidural steroid injections for low back pain and lumbosacral radiculopathy.
- Changes in venous blood lactate, venous blood gases, and somatosensory evoked potentials after tourniquet application.
- Developmental neurophysiology of mammalian peripheral nerves and age-related differential sensitivity to local anaesthetic.
- Increase in skin temperature, by itself, may not indicate complete sympathetic blockade.
- The effect of polyethylene glycol on mammalian nerve impulses.
- Somatosensory evoked potential quantification of ulnar nerve blockade.
- Sign of complete sympathetic blockade: sweat test or sympathogalvanic response?
- Postdural puncture headache in patients with chronic pain.
- Intracerebral hemorrhage after dural puncture and epidural blood patch: nonpostural and noncontinuous headache.
- Ketamine treatment of penile erection in the operating room.
- The trend of federal and private support of research as applied to anesthesiology.
- Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with regional intravenous reserpine.
- Delayed onset of epidural anesthesia in patients with back pain.
- The value of fluoroscopy before performing a phrenic nerve block.
- Stellate ganglion block using physiologic saline solution.
- The effect of low-dose bupivacaine on postoperative epidural fentanyl analgesia and thrombelastography.
- Post-thoracotomy epidural analgesia: lumbar or thoracic placement?
- Clinical experience with the peribulbar block for ophthalmologic surgery.
- A randomized double-blind comparison of epidural fentanyl infusion versus patient-controlled analgesia with morphine for postthoracotomy pain.
- Onset, intensity of blockade and somatosensory evoked potential changes of the lumbosacral dermatomes after epidural anesthesia with alkalinized lidocaine.
- Lumbar and thoracic epidural blood injections to treat spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
- Determination of residual antiplatelet activity of clopidogrel before neuraxial injections.
- Oral anticoagulants and regional anesthesia: a perspective.
- Bilateral radicular pain after epidural lidocaine.
- Reply to Dr Norris.
- Reply to Drs Guffey and Fingerman.
Schools
Far Eastern UniversityNicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
Overlook Hospital
Cincinnati Med Center
Northwestern Meml Hospital
Brigham and Womens Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Anesthesiology
- Pain Medicine Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University -
University Hospital - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine -
Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
Hospital
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1285600031 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BENZON | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HONORIO | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 606115975 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IL | |
| Specialty Description | Anesthesiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 119.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 47.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 39.5 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1285600031 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BENZON |
| First Name Of The Provider | HONORIO |
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