Titles:
Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine

Contact:
Email: alkhafajia2@upmc.edu

Degrees:

Administrative Titles:

YEAR	TITLE	INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
1999 - 2001	Instructor in Medicine	Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
1999 - 2001	Instructor in Anesthesiology	Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
2001 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine	University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
2001 –2002	Medical Director of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit	Meritcare Health System Fargo, North Dakota, USA
2002 – 2005	Honorary Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine	Center for Anesthesia University College London, London, England

Current Research Interest:
Cost-effectiveness / cost containment in critical care
Hemodynamic monitoring using esophageal doppler
Fluid management in sepsis and septic shock
Management of patients with Acute Liver Failure

Publications:

• Heffner AC, Huang DT, Al-Khafaji AH. Post-Intubation Hypotension During Emergency Airway Management. Chest (in press)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Cho SM. Rapid Response System, lets not get carried away! Critical Care Medicine (in press)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Daly I, Weaver J, Grogan T, Linden P. Safety and Efficicacy of Prone Ventilation in Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Elevated Intracranial Pressure. Liver Transplantation 2007; 13(6):111.
• Al-Khafaji AH, Webb AR. Fluid resuscitation. BJA, Contin Educ Anaesth Crit Care Pain 2004 4: 127-131
• Al-Khafaji AH, Corwin HL, Adhar GC, Greenberg ML. Bidirectional Tachycardia. Anesth Analg 2002 95: 310-315
• Al-Khafaji AH, Manning HL, Dewhirst WE. Propylene Glycol Toxicity Associated with Lorazepam Infusion in a Patient Receiving Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration with Dialysis. Anesth Analg 2002 94: 1583-1585.
• Al-Khafaji AH, Manning HL. Inappropriate ventilator triggering caused by an in-line suction catheter. Intensive Care Med 2002 28: 515-519
• Al-Khafaji AH, William E. Dewhirst, Cornell C, Quill TJ. Succinylcholine Induced Hyperkalemia in a Patient with Mucositis Due to Chemotherapy. Crit Care Med 2001; 29:1274-1276
• Al-Khafaji AH, Corwin HL. Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis in the Chronically Critically Ill Patient. Clin Chest Med 22(1): 165-174, 2001
• Al-Khafaji AH, Corwin HL. Acute Renal Failure in the ICU: balancing diagnosis and treatment. J Crit Illness.2002; 17(10): 389-396.
• Al-Khafaji AH, Webb AR. Colloid Osmotic Pressure. Crit Care Shock 2002; 5:178-183
• Al-Khafaji AH, Webb AR. Should albumin be used to correct Hypoalbuminemia? No. Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine. 2003;5(4):392-396
• Cho SM, Al-Khafaji AH. Etomidate for emergency anaesthesia; mad, bad and dangerous to know? Anaesthesia 2005; 60:737-40
• Hamdulay S, Al- Khafaji AH, Montgomery H. Glucose, Insulin & Potassium Infusions in Septic Shock. Chest 2006; 129: 800-804
• Hamdulay S, Montgomery H, Al-Khafaji AH. Is intensive insulin therapy safe in the critically ill? Chest 2006; 130:1278-1281
• Al-Khafaji AH, Alousi M, Cho SM. Autotriggering of pressure support ventilation during general anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 2006; 61(6):619-622
• Al-Khafaji AH, Cho SM. Atrial fibrillation in critical care. Intensive Care Med 2006; 32(7):1099
• Hamdulay S, Montgomery H, Al-Khafaji AH. Is Intensive Insulin Therapy Safe in the Critically Ill? Chest 2006; 130:1278-1279.
• Cho SM, Al-Khafaji AJ, Ahmad J. Minnesota Tube for treatment of rectal variceal bleeding. Gastroenterology (accepted)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Angus DC, Knause W. The APACHEII paper! J Crit Care (accepted)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Cho SM. Airway management in critically ill patients. Chest (accepted)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Rivers E, Shoemaker W. The Shoemaker et al classic paper! J Crit Care (accepted)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

• Al-Khafaji AH, Linden PK. Infectious Complications of Renal Transplant. In: Ronco C, Bellomo R, Kellum J (eds.), Critical Care Nephrology. Elsevier Publishing, Inc. (in press)
• Al-Khafaji AH, Hampers MJ, Corwin HL. Acid-Base Disorders. In: Higgins, Kacmarek, Steingrub,Stoller, ed., Textbook of Cardiopulmonary Critical Care. BIOS Scientific Publishers.Oxford, UK. 2002 pp. 49-61
• Al-Khafaji AH, Corwin HL. Oliguria. In: MP Fink, R Carlson, ed., Saunders Manual of Critical Care Medicine. W.B Saunders Co, Philadelphia, USA. 2002 pp. 8-10
• Al-Khafaji AH, Corwin HL. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy. In: MP Fink, R Carlson, ed., Saunders Manual of Critical Care Medicine. W.B Saunders Co. Philadelphia, USA. 2002 pp. 733-736.
• Al-Khafaji AH, Bellingan GJ. Ventilator associated pneumonia. In: Laurent G, Shapiro S, ed., Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine. Elsevier Publishing. 2006; pp 464-470

Major Honors/Awards (past 5 years)

• Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), 2003
• Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), 2003

Presentations at Major Meetings:

• Safety and Efficacy of Prone Ventilation in Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Elevated Intracranial Pressure. 13th Annual International Congress, The International Liver Transplantation Society. June 2007. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
• Erythropoetin in the perioperative period and in the ICU. 6th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis. Munich, Germany.
• Role of Erythropoietin in the Critically Ill. 18th International Symposium On Critical Care Medicine – A.P.I.C.E. Trieste, Italy.
• Oral Presentation at the 32nd Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. San Antonio, TX, USA.
• Rescue Therapy for Bleeding Rectal Varices. 71st Americal College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting. October 2006. Las Vegas, NV, USA