| Titles: Interim Director, Transplant Intensive Care Unit
Contact:
Email: alkhafajia2@upmc.edu
Degrees:
POST GRADUATE EDUCATION
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
YEAR |
FIELD |
| Mustansiriya University School of Medicine, Baghdad |
MBChB |
1993 |
Medicine |
| Residency: |
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The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
Resident |
1996-1999 |
Medicine |
Fellowship: |
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| Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH |
Fellow |
1999-
2001
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Critical Care Medicine |
| University College London Hospitals, London, UK |
Fellow |
2002-2004
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Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiology |
| The Central London School of Anesthesia, London, UK |
Fellow |
2004-2005 |
Anesthesiology |
Other:
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| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK |
MPH |
2002-
2004
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Health Services/System Research |
| Board Certifications: |
Year |
ABIM - Medicine |
1999 |
| ABIM - Critical Care Medicine |
2002 |
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
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