Position: Permanent faculty. Coordinator of the Pain Group at Cancer Institute of the State of São Paulo, participating in Medical Residency Program in Anesthesiology.
Specialties: Medicine: Anesthesiology; Pharmacology
Fields of interest: pain pharmacology, acute and chronic pain, postoperative nausea and vomiting
Healthcare units: Central Institute e Cancer Institute
h-index: 14 (Google Scholar); 7 (Scopus)
Title: Peripheral analgesic effect of tramadol in rats
Advisor: Hazem Adel Ashmawi
Date of defense: 01/15/2010
Sousa AM, Ashmawi HA, Costa LS, Posso IP, Slullitel A. Percutaneous sciatic nerve block with tramadol induces analgesia and motor blockade in two animal pain models. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 2012;45(2):147-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2011007500164
Ashmawi HA, Braun LM, Sousa AM, Posso I de P. Analgesic effects of H1 receptor antagonists in the rat model of formalin-induced pain. Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia 2009;59(4):461-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-70942009000400008
Sousa AM, Franco PA, Ashmawi HA, Posso I de P. Local effect of tramadol on formalin evoked flinching behavior in rats. Revista Brasileira Anestesiologia 2008;58(4):371-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-70942008000400006