| Titles:
Professor, CCM and Pediatrics
Contact:
Email: venkataramanst@ccm.upmc.edu
Degrees:
POST GRADUATE EDUCATION
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
YEAR |
FIELD |
| Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and
Research (J.I.P.M.E.R.),Pondicherry, India |
MD |
1980 |
Medicine / Surgery |
| Residency: |
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| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ |
Resident |
1982-1994 |
Pediatrics |
Fellowship:
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University of Pittsburgh,
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh |
Fellow |
1984-1987 |
Critical Care Medicine |
| Board Certifications: |
Year |
American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatrics (Cerificate
# 33465)
|
1986 |
| American Board of Pediatrics - Sub Board Critical
Care (Certificate # 161) |
1987 |
American Board of Pediatrics - Recertification
in Pediatric Critical Care
|
1995 |
Administrative Title:
- Associate Director, Pediatric ICU, CHP
- Medical Director, Respiratory Care, CHP
- Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Major Honors/Awards:
- Pediatric Section Award for the best Pediatric
abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Critical
Care Medicine 1990.
- SCCM Annual Scientific Award - presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San
Antonio, 1998.
Current Research Interest:
- Developing extubation criteria in intubated
infants and children
- Measurement of work of breathing and oxygen
cost of breathing and its impact on weaning from mechanical
ventilation in infants and children
- Developing a transport triage tool (in collaboration
with Richard Orr MD who is the PI on this project)
- Inhaled nitric oxide in primary pulmonary
hypertension of the newborn
- Inhaled nitric oxide in adult respiratory
distress syndrome
- Evaluation of inhaled nitric oxide before cardiac
transplantation
- Oxidant stress in critically ill patients
as evaluated by oxidants, antioxidants, and inflammatory cytokines
- Evaluation of the use of hypoxic gas mixtures
in hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Unsuspected fungal infections in the intensive
care unit
- Partitioning pulmonary vascular resistance
in congenital and acquired heart disease in infants and children.
- Evaluation of viscoelastic resistance in the
lungs in critically ill mechanically ventilated infants and children
(in
collaboration with Dr. Etsuro Motoyama)
- Nutrition in the critically ill pediatric
patient
- Effect of different modes of weaning on work
of breathing and extubation success.
- Effect of prone positioning in pediatric ARDS
- Effect of critical illness on hemoglobin dissociation
curve and 2,3-dpg levels
Publications:
- Venkataraman ST, Fuhrman BP, Howland DF, DeFrancisis
M: Positive end-expiratory pressure-induced, calcium-channel-mediated
increases in pulmonary vascular resistance in neonatal lambs.
Crit Care Med 1993; 21:1066-76.
- Khan N, Brown A, Venkataraman ST: Predictors
of xtubation success and failure in mechanically ventilated infants
and children. Crit Care Med 1996; 24:1568-79.
- Venkataraman ST, Khan, Brown A: Validation
ofpredictors of extubation success and failure in mechanically
ventilated infants and children. Crit Care Med 2000; 28:2991-6.
- Randolph AG, Wypij D, Venkataraman ST, et
al: Effect of mechanical ventilator weaning protocols on respiratory
outcomes in infants and children. A randomized controlled trial.
JAMA 288(20):25612603, 2002
- Briassoulis G, Venkataraman ST, Thompson AE.
Energy expenditure in critically ill children (in press) Crit
Care Med 27:1999.
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