Titles:
Interim Director, Transplant Intensive Care Unit

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
2008	Associate Medical Director of Transplant ICU	Critical Care Medicine Department, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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