Dr. Ilana Sebbag
Assistant Professor
Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship and Research Coordinator
Biography
Dr. Sebbag completed her MD (2004) and Residency in Anesthesiology (2009) at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), where she subsequently worked as a staff anesthesiologist for 3 years, as well as an official instructor for the AHA ACLS courses. In 2005, she served as a military physician (2nd Lieautenant) at the Brazilian Air Force. From 2012-2014, she came to Canada, specifically the University of British Columbia, in order to complete a fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesia and in General with a focus in Regional Anesthesia. She joins us after spending 2 years as a fellow in our department at Victoria Hospital.
Ilana has several national and international anesthesia meetings’ presentations, as well as multiple peer-reviewed publications. In 2015, one of her studies gained media attention, when she gave an interview to the local news channel CTV.
Dr. Sebbag is a member of the Canadian Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Working Group, having authored the anesthesia chapters for the SOGC Guidelines on the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (2014) and the FIGO Textbook of Pregnancy Hypertension - an evidence-based guide to monitoring, prevention and management (to be published in 2016).
Her current areas of research include:
- Neuraxial acoustic window changes according to body position and use of positioning devices
- Regional Anesthesia techniques applied to obstetrics
- Methods to predict correct epidural needle placement.
Publications
Querney J, Singh, I, Sebbag I. Tracheal deviation with phrenic nerve palsy after brachial plexus block. Anaesthesia Reports. In press.
Sebbag I, Qasem F, VedagiriSai R, Jones PM, Singh SI. Efficacy of the Epidural Positioning Device® in optimizing the acoustic target window for neuraxial needle placement in term pregnancy. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. 2020;41:47-52.
Qasem F, Singh SI, Alsaharty A, Sebbag I, Sharma M, Khemani E. Improving Patients’ Experience Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: A Quality Improvement Initiative. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2020 [Online ahead of print].
Sharma M, Qasem F, Sebbag I, Jones PM, Singh SI. The crossed-leg position increases the dimensions within the acoustic target window for neuraxial needle placement in term pregnancy: a prospective observational study. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. 2020;44:106-11.
Qasem F, Khalaf R, Sebbag I, Lavi R, Jones PM, Singh SI. Efficacy of surface landmark palpation for identification of the cricoid cartilage in obstetric patients: A prospective observational study. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2019;35:335-9
I. Sebbag, F. Qasem, R VedagiriSai, P.M. Jones and S.I. Singh. Efficacy of the Epidural Positioning Device® in optimizing the acoustic target window for neuraxial needle placement in term pregnancy. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. Accepted/In Press. Available online 2019.08.26
Sebbag I, Tang R, Gunka V, Sahota J, Vaghadia H, Sawka A. Effect of table tilt and spine flexion-rotation on the acoustic window of the lumbar spine in pregnant women. Rev Bras Anestesiol. 2018 Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print].
Sebbag I, Qasem F, Dhir S. Ultrasound guided quadratus lumborum block for analgesia after cesarean delivery: case series. Rev Bras Anestesiol. 2017 Jul-aug; 67(4): 418-421.
Sebbag I, Qasem F, Armstrong K, Jones PM, Singh S. Waveform analysis for lumbar epidural needle placement in labour. Anaesthesia. 2016 Aug;71(8):984-5.
Aarvold ABR, Wiggins J, Sebbag I, Kintu A, Mung'ayi V, Douglas J. Chapter 10: Anaesthesia [p.185-213]. In: Magee LA, von Dadelszen P, Stones W, Mathai M, editors. The FIGO Textbook of Pregnancy Hypertension: An evidence-based guide to monitoring, prevention and management. London; The Global Library of Women's Medicine, 2016
Sebbag I, Massey SR, Albert AYK, Dube A, Gunka V, Douglas MJ. A Prospective Observational Comparison Between Arm And Wrist Blood Pressure During Elective Cesarean Delivery. Anesth Analg 2015; 121(3): 767-75
Magee LA, Audibert F, Bujold E, Côté AM, Douglas MJ, Eastabrook G, Firoz T, Gibson P, Gruslin A, Hutcheon J, Koren G, Lange I, Leduc L, Logan AG, MacDonell KL, Moutquin JM, Sebbag I. The Hypertensive Disorders Of Pregnancy. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2015;29(5):643-57.
Magee LA, Audibert F, Bujold E, Côté AM, Douglas MJ, Eastabrook G, Firoz T, Gibson P, Gruslin A, Hutcheon J, Koren G, Lange I, Leduc L, Logan AG, MacDonell KL, Moutquin JM, Sebbag I. Diagnosis, Evaluation, And Management Of The Hypertensive Disorders Of Pregnancy. Pregnancy Hypertens 2014;4(2):105–145.
