Fellow Publications

Gupta VK, Cheifetz IM. Heliox administration in the pediatric intensive care unit: An evidence-based review. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2005;6(2):204-211. 

Hamel DS, Katz A, Craig DM, Davies J, Cheifetz IM. Carbon dioxide elimination and gas displacement vary with piston position during high frequency oscillatory ventilation. Respiratory Care. 2005;50(3):361-366. 

Alexander PJ, Lawson DS, Cornell J, Craig DM, Cheifetz IM. Insensible water loss from the medtronic minimax oxygenator: An in vitro study. ASAIO Journal. 2006;52(2):206-210. 

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM. Extubation criteria for infants and children. Respiratory Care Clinics of North America. 2006;12(3):469-481. 

Bass AL, Gentile MA, Heinz JP, Craig DM, Cheifetz IM. Setting positive end-expiratory pressure during jet ventilation to replicate the properties of oscillatory ventilation. Respiratory Care. 2007;52(1):50-55. 

Wratney A, Cheifetz IM. Clinical practice guideline: Removal of the endotracheal tube. Respiratory Care. 2007;52(1):80-93. 

Graham A, Ozment C, Tegtmeyer K, Lai S, and Braner D. Videos in clinical medicine: Central venous catheterization. New England Journal of Medicine. 356:e21, 2007.

Wratney AT, Benjamin DK, Slonim AD, He J, Hamel DS, Cheifetz IM. The endotracheal tube air test leak does not predict extubation outcome in critically ill pediatric patients. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2008(9):490-496. 

Schwarz R, Rehder K, Parsons D, Morrell DS. Intense pruritus and failure to thrive in Alagille’s syndrome. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2008 Feb;58(2 Suppl):S.

Frazier MD, Cheifetz IM. The role of heliox in paediatric respiratory disease. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews. 2009. In press. 

Hornik CP and Turner DA. Critical Appraisal of: Yung D, Widlitz AC, Rosenzweig EB, et al. Outcomes in Children with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation 2004;110 660-665.  In The PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club, June 30, 2009.  Available from:  http://pedsccm.org/view.php?id=341. Accessed July 16, 2009.

Tinch B and Turner DA. Critical Appraisal of: Artinian V, Krayem H, DiGiovine B. Effects of Early Enteral Feeding on the Outcome of Critically Ill Mechanically Ventilated Medical Pateints. Chest 2006;129 960-967.  PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club, April 3, 2010.  Available from: http://pedsccm.org/view.php?id=307.   

Chen JG, Eldridge DL, Lodeserto FJ, Ming DY, Turner KM, Vanderford JL, Sporn TA, Schulman SR. Paraquat ingestion: A challenging diagnosis. Pediatrics. 2010, In Press. 

Chen JG, Mistry KP, Wright MC, Turner DA. Post-operative cardiac surgery handoff communication. Simulation in Health Care. 2010, In Press.

Chen JG, Hartman M. Improving patient safety: Can we avoid emergent intubations? Pediatric Critical Care. 2010, In press.

McSwain SD, Hamel DS, Smith PB, Gentile MA, Srinivasan S, Meliones JN, Cheifetz IM. End-tidal and arterial carbon dioxide measurements correlate across all levels of physiologic dead space. Respiratory Care. 2010, In press.

Rehder K, Meliones J, Cheifetz I, Frush K.  Improving Teamwork and Enhancing Clinical Performance in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.  Joint Comm J on Quality and Patient Safety. 2010, In Press

Gandhi NN, Hartman ME, Peters, MA, Williford WL, Cheifetz IM, and Turner DA.  Successful Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for H1N1-induced Refractory Hypoxemia in a Child with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.  2010, In Press.

Chapters:

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM. Pulmonary Gas Exchange  In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM. 1st Edition.  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2006;259-263. 

Barrett CS, Cheifetz IM.  Cardiorespiratory Interactions. In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM. 1st Edition.  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2006;303-307. 

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM, Fortenberry JD, Paden ML.  Disorders of the Lung Parenchyma. In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM. 1st Edition. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2006;683-693. 

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM.  Disorders of the Chest Wall and Respiratory Muscles.  In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.  Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM.  1st Edition.  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.  2006;705-716. 

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM. Gases and Drugs Used in Support of the Respiratory System. In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM. 1st Edition. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2006;717. 

Wratney AT, Cheifetz IM. Oxygen, Monitoring, Hypoxic Gas or Carbon Dioxide, and Heliox. In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Eds. Slonim AD and Pollack MM. 1st Edition. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2006;717-722.

Wratney AT, Hamel DS, Cheifetz IM. Inhaled Gases. In: Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care. Ed. Nichols D. 4th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008:532-543. 

Rehder K. (Case chapter) 2 year old female with cyanosis and lethargy. Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Case Based Review.  Allen Liles, Jr. and Richard Wardrop, III ed.  Mc-Graw Hill, 2008.

Rehder K. (Case chapter) 2 year old female with headache and fever. Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Case Based Review. Allen Liles, Jr. and Richard Wardrop, III ed. Mc-Graw Hill, 2008.

Rehder K. (Case chapter) Premature male infant with abdominal distension and lethargy. Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Case Based Review.  Allen Liles, Jr. and Richard Wardrop, III ed. Mc-Graw Hill, 2008.

Ozment CP, Turi JL. Iron Overload following RBC transfusion and its Impact on disease severity. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2009. Jul;1790(7):694-701.

Selected Abstracts:

Bass AL, Gentile MA, Heinz JH, Cheifetz, IM. “Optimal Positive End Expiratory Pressure During Jet Ventilation to Replicate the Oxygenating Properties of Oscillatory Ventilation.” Presented at the High Frequency Ventilation Conference, Snowbird, UT. April 2005.

Wratney AT, Benjamin DK Jr, Hamel DS, Cheifetz IM. “Absence of Endotracheal Tube (ETT) Air Leak For the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation Does Not Predict Extubation Failure.” Presented at the American Thoracic Society International Congress, San Diego, CA.  May, 2005. 

Bass AL, Gentile MA, Heinz JH, Cheifetz IM. Utilizing High Frequency Jet Ventilation to Monitor and Replicate High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation.  Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Conference. Washington, DC. May, 2005. Available from: www.abstracts2view.com/pas. 

Bass AL, Gentile MA, Craig DM, Cheifetz IM. Comparison of oxygen delivery during oscillatory and jet ventilation. Respiratory Care. 2006;51 (11):1289. 

Adams DF, Gentile MA, Craig DM, Quick, G, Cheifetz IM.  Bias flow does not affect carbon dioxide elimination during high frequency oscillatory ventilation. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2007;8(3):A138. 

Hamel D, Craig D, Srinivasan S, Cheifetz I. The use of deadspace to tidal volume ratio (Vd/Vt) in predicting extubation success in a pediatric critical care setting.  Respiratory Care.  2007;52(11):1572. 

McSwain SD, Hamel DS, Srinivasan S, Gentile MA, Meliones J, Cheifetz IM.  Degree of physiologic dead space ventilation predicts strength of correlation between end-tidal carbon dioxide and arterial carbon dioxide.  Critical Care Medicine.  2007;35(12):A222. 
  
Frazier MD, Mamo LB, Ghio AJ, Piantadosi CA, and Turi JL. Hepcidin is expressed by airway epithelial cells and is regulated by IFN-g. Am J. Resp. CCM. 175:A176, 2007.

Ozment CP, Campbell ML, Ghio AJ, Mamo LB, Bredehoeft SJ, and Turi JL. Iron levels and protein oxidation increase over time in stored PRBCs. American Thoracic Society International Conference. Am. J. Resp. CCM. 117: A634, 2008.

Ozment CP, Campbell ML, Ghio AJ, Mamo LB, Bredehoeft SJ, and Turi JL. Iron levels and protein oxidation increase over time in stored PRBC’s. Am J. Resp. CCM. 177:A634, 2008.

Rehder K, Meliones J, Mistry K. (Abstract) Are We ‘Well Rounded?’ Studying Perceptions of
Daily Rounds in the Intensive Care Unit. 2009 Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress. Nashville, TN, January 2009. Crit Care Med 2008 Dec; 36(12 Suppl):A98

Chen JG, Turner DA, Wright MC, Ing RJ, Lodge AJ, Jaggers J, Smith BP, and Mistry KP.  Handoff Communication Quality: Improving Situation Awareness with Simulation. Society of Critical Care Medicine 39th Annual Congress. Miami, FL, January 2010.   

Chen JG, Mistry KP, Turner DA, Smith BP, and Wright MC.  Situation Awareness Queries as an Objective Measure of Performance in Simulated Handoff Communication. International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Phoenix, AZ, January 2010.

Chen JG, Mistry KP, Turner DA, Smith BP, and Wright MC. Situation Awareness Queries as an Objective Measure of Performance in Simulated Handoff Communication. International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Phoenix, AZ, January 2010.

Chen JG, Turner DA, Wright MC, Ing RJ, Lodge AJ, Jaggers J, Smith BP, and Mistry KP. Handoff Communication Quality: Improving Situation Awareness with Simulation. 5th Annual Patient Safety and Quality Conference. Durham, NC, January 2010. 

Chen JG, Turner DA, Wright MC, Ing RJ, Lodge AJ, Jaggers J, Smith  BP, and Mistry KP. Improving Handoff Communication:  Development of a Simulation-based Educational Program. Association of Graduate Medical Education Annual Educational Conference. Nashville, TN, March 2010.