Titles:
Professor, Critical Care Medicine

Contact:
Email: chelluril@ccm.upmc.edu

Degrees:

Research Grants:

Current Research Interest:

• Outcomes after critical illness
• Patient safety
  

Publications:

• Chelluri, L. Critical Illness In The Elderly: Review of Pathophysiology of Aging and Outcome of Intensive Care. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2001;16:114-127.
• Quality Of Life after Mechanical Ventilation in the Aged Study Investigators. Chelluri L, Rotondi AJ, Mendelsohn AB, Belle SH, Sirio CA, Donahoe MP, Pinsky MR, Schulz R. Two-Month Mortality and Functional Status of Critically Ill Adult Patients Receiving Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation. Chest 2002;121:549-558.
• Rotondi AJ, Chelluri L, Sirio C, Mendelsohn A, Schulz R, Belle S, Im K, Donahoe M, Pinsky MR. Patients’ Recollections of Stressful Experiences While Receiving Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in an ICU. Crit Care Med 2002;30:746-752.
• Mendelsohn AB, Belle SH, Fischoff B, Wisnewski SR, Degenholtz H, Chelluri L for Quality of Life after Mechanical Ventilation in the Aged Study Investigators. How patients feel about prolonged mechanical ventilation 1 year later. Crit Care Med 2002;30:1439-45.
• Jones MA, Hoffman, Makaroun MS, Zullo TG, Chelluri L. Early Discharge Following Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Impact on Patients and Caregivers. Research in Nursing and Health, 2002; 25: 1-12.
• Mendelsohn AB, Chelluri L. Interviews With Intensive Care Unit Survivors: Assessing post-intensive care quality of life and patients' preferences regarding intensive care and mechanical ventilation. Crit Care Med 2003; 31(5):S400-406.
• Chelluri L, Mendelsohn AB, Belle SB, Rotondi AJ, Angus DC, Donahoe MP, Sirio CA, Schulz R, Pinsky MR. Hospital Costs in Patients Receiving Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation. Does Age have an impact? Crit Care Med 2003; 31(6):1746-51.
• Maynard SE, Whttle J, Chelluri L, Arnold R. Quality of Life and Dialysis Decisions in Critically Ill Patients With Acute Renal Failure. Intensive care Med 2003; 29(9):1589-1593.
• Chelluri L, Im KA, Belle SH, Schulz R, Rotondi AJ, Donahoe MP, Sirio CA, Mendelsohn AB, Pinsky MR. Long-Term Mortality andQuality of Life After Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation. Crit Care Med 2004; 32(1):61-69.
• Im KA, Belle SH, Schulz R, Mendelsohn AB, Chelluri L. QOL-MV Investigators. Prevelance and Outcomes of Caregiving After Prolonged (> 48 hours) Mechanical Ventilation (MV) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Chest 2004; 125(2):597-606.