Sang Hyun Hong
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About
Sang Hyun Hong is a clinician-researcher whose work centers on perioperative pain management and regional anesthesia, with a particular focus on optimizing analgesic strategies for minimally invasive robotic surgery. His most significant contributions address a counterintuitive challenge in modern surgical care: despite the reduced invasiveness of robot-assisted laparoscopic procedures, patients frequently experience substantial postoperative pain. Hong has systematically investigated how techniques such as intrathecal morphine with bupivacaine, rectus sheath blocks, and pectoralis nerve blocks can be deployed — individually and in multimodal combinations — to improve early recovery outcomes. His prospective and observational studies comparing intrathecal morphine and bupivacaine against intravenous patient-controlled analgesia and regional nerve blocks have garnered consistent citations, with his leading work accumulating 22 citations since 2021. Beyond analgesia, Hong has explored physiological consequences of robotic surgical positioning, including intraoperative changes in whole-blood viscosity during steep Trendelenburg positioning, and the renal-protective potential of combining remote ischemic preconditioning with intrathecal analgesia. Spanning over 272 patients in one retrospective analysis alone, his growing body of evidence meaningfully informs anesthetic protocols for robotic prostatectomy and nephrectomy, making him a notable voice in urological anesthesiology.
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- 8Advanced Robot System for Automated Bridge Inspection and Monitoring7 citations · 2009
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