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| Raymond PitettiSummaryAffiliation: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Safe and efficacious use of procedural sedation and analgesia by nonanesthesiologists in a pediatric emergency departmentRaymond D Pitetti
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:1090-6. 2003..Few studies have looked at the overall success and incidence of complications of PSA as performed by nonanesthesiologists...- Prevalence of anemia in children presenting with apparent life-threatening eventsRaymond D Pitetti
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:926-31. 2005..Anemia has been associated with apparent life-threatening events (ALTEs) in children. However, the nature of the association has not been well described... - Accidental and nonaccidental poisonings as a cause of apparent life-threatening events in infantsRaymond D Pitetti
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pediatrics 122:e359-62. 2008..Previous reports have suggested that poisonings, either accidental or intentional, may be causes of some events. However, this theory has not been systematically studied... - Emergency department evaluation of ventricular shunt malfunction: is the shunt series really necessary?Raymond Pitetti
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 23:137-41. 2007..We hypothesized, however, that in the context of a cranial CT scan that did not demonstrate a shunt malfunction, obtaining the shunt series would not prove to be clinically useful... - Prehospital care and outcome of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrestRaymond Pitetti
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:283-90. 2002..quot; The authors of the study described below believe that using this definition would categorize some patients into an ALS group who would otherwise be categorized as having received BLS (i.e., "bag-valve-mask only")... - Effect on hospital-wide sedation practices after implementation of the 2001 JCAHO procedural sedation and analgesia guidelinesRaymond Pitetti
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2583, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:211-6. 2006..Implementation of uniform standards of monitoring and care for the provision of PSA may lead to safer conditions for pediatric patients undergoing PSA... - Mortality and child abuse in children presenting with apparent life-threatening eventsKala Parker
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 27:591-5. 2011..The incidence of mortality following an event appears to occur infrequently, but has not been well described. However, it has been our experience that children who are victims of occult child abuse have a high mortality rate... - Is higher ASA class associated with an increased incidence of adverse events during procedural sedation in a pediatric emergency department?Kerry Caperell
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 25:661-4. 2009..To prospectively investigate whether American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class, as assigned by nonanesthesiologists, is associated with adverse events during procedural sedation in a pediatric emergency department... - Helium/oxygen-driven albuterol nebulization in the treatment of children with moderate to severe asthma exacerbations: a randomized, controlled trialIn K Kim
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 116:1127-33. 2005..We aimed to compare the effectiveness of a 70%:30% helium/oxygen (heliox)-driven continuous aerosol delivery versus 100% oxygen-driven delivery in the treatment of asthmatic children with moderate to severe exacerbations... - The DOG BITES program: documentation of growls and bites in the emergency settingLisa Marie Bernardo
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Emerg Nurs 28:536-41. 2002 - A comparison of dog bite injuries in younger and older children treated in a pediatric emergency departmentLisa Marie Bernardo
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 18:247-9. 2002..Findings from our study could be used to develop age-specific strategies for dog bite prevention. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: The epidemiologic triad of agent/host/environment formed the theoretical framework...