Dr. James Edward Sykes D.O.
Anesthesiologist | Pain Medicine
5901 Westown Pkwy Suite 210 West Des Moines IA, 50266Rating
4/5
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Dr. James Sykes is an anesthesiologist practicing in West Des Moines, IA. Dr. Sykes ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Sykes also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences 1981
University of Osteopathic Medicine And Health Sciences / College of Osteopathic Medicine 1981
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Comparison of the polymerase chain reaction and culture for the detection of feline Chlamydia psittaci in untreated and doxycycline-treated experimentally infected cats.
- Prevalence of feline Chlamydia psittaci and feline herpesvirus 1 in cats with upper respiratory tract disease.
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome in 3 Rottweilers.
- Detection of feline calicivirus, feline herpesvirus 1 and Chlamydia psittaci mucosal swabs by multiplex RT-PCR/PCR.
- Influence of maternal and fetal glucokinase mutations in gestational diabetes.
- Ischemic neuromyopathy due to peripheral arterial embolization of an adenocarcinoma in a cat.
- Clinicopathologic and diagnostic imaging characteristics of systemic aspergillosis in 30 dogs.
- Oxidation of very-long-chain fatty acids in rat brain: cerotic acid is beta-oxidized exclusively in rat brain peroxisomes.
- Ralstonia pickettii septicemia in a dog with immune-mediated thrombocytopenia.
- Canine granulocytic anaplasmosis: a review.
- Salmon poisoning disease in dogs: 29 cases.
- Substrate utilization for energy production and lipid synthesis in oligodendrocyte-enriched cultures prepared from rat brain.
- Relationship between the pentose-phosphate pathway and the de novo synthesis of fatty acids and cholesterol in oligodendrocyte-enriched glial cultures.
- The effect of serum on lipid synthesis and on the expression of oligodendrocyte
- 2010 ACVIM small animal consensus statement on leptospirosis: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention.
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