Dr Andre F. Pasquet

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 49, No. 7, September 2007, Page 398 Obituaries
By: Eric Pasquet, MD,

1915 - 2007

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Andre F. Pasquet of Terrace, BC, passed away peacefully in June. He graduated from Queens University in 1943 with a specialty in anesthesia. His anesthesia career was perhaps most distinguished by his close relationship with Wilder Penfield in the late 1940s and early 1950s. 

“In many ways, the modern era of awake craniotomies began more than 50 years ago when Wilder Penfield and Andre Pasquet published their landmark paper on the surgical and anaesthetic aspects of surgery after the administration of local and intermittent sedation and analgesia. Many of the concepts they outlined remain relevant today.”[1]

In 1954 Andy joined the department of anesthesia at Dalhousie University in Halifax where he became an integral and respected member of the department. Andre was blessed with a unique teaching ability and a rare common-sense approach to medicine. 

In 1973 he moved to Terrace, BC, where he developed the anesthesia department at Mills Memorial Hospital. In proud appreciation of his work, an operating room was dedicated to Andre at his retirement. 

He continued to live in “his mountains” with his loving wife, Eula, and continued to make a lasting impression on everyone he met. He will be missed by Eula, his four children, and Eula’s children, but the memory of Andre will continue to serve as a reminder of the virtues of honesty, dedication, and love, so wonderfully exhibited by Andy Pasquet.

--Eric Pasquet, MD
Ottawa

Eric Pasquet, MD,. Dr Andre F. Pasquet. BCMJ, Vol. 49, No. 7, September, 2007, Page(s) 398 - Obituaries.


Above is the information needed to cite this article in your paper or presentation. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends the following citation style, which is the now nearly universally accepted citation style for scientific papers:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.

About the ICMJE and citation styles

The ICMJE is small group of editors of general medical journals who first met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group became known as the Vancouver Group. Its requirements for manuscripts, including formats for bibliographic references developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), were first published in 1979. The Vancouver Group expanded and evolved into the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which meets annually. The ICMJE created the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals to help authors and editors create and distribute accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies.

An alternate version of ICMJE style is to additionally list the month an issue number, but since most journals use continuous pagination, the shorter form provides sufficient information to locate the reference. The NLM now lists all authors.

BCMJ standard citation style is a slight modification of the ICMJE/NLM style, as follows:

  • Only the first three authors are listed, followed by "et al."
  • There is no period after the journal name.
  • Page numbers are not abbreviated.


For more information on the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, visit www.icmje.org

BCMJ Guidelines for Authors

Leave a Reply