David W. Crippen, MD
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Titles:
Associate Professor, CCM

Contact:
Email: cripdw@ccm.upmc.edu

Degrees:

POST GRADUATE EDUCATION
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE YEAR FIELD
Medical College of Georgia MD 1976 Surgery
Residency:  
NY Univ. Med. Ctr., Bellview Hopsital, NY Resident 1978 Straight Surgery
Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
Resident
1981 Emergency Medicine
Fellowship:
 
Univ. of Pgh. Med. Ctr., Presbyterian Univ. Hospital Fellow 1986
Critical Care Medicine
St. Francis Medical Ctr., Pittsburgh, PA (Clinical Fellow) Fellow 1987 Critical Care Medicine
Research Resuscitation Ctr. Of Pgh., (ResearchFellow) Fellow 1987 Critical Care Medicine
Board Certifications:      
American Board of Emergency Medicine
1985
 
American College of Critical Care Medicine
1990  
European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine 1995  

Administrative Title
Former Vice Chair, Depts. of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, St. Francis Medical Center, Pgh., PA

Current Research Interest:
Withholding and withdrawing life support in intensive care medicine, global information systems in critical care medicine

Publications:

Book Chapters:

  • Crippen D: Treatment of Agitation and its Co-morbidities in the ICU. Textbook: Ventilator Management Strategies for Critical Care, Nicholas S. Hill, Mitchell Levy, Claude Lenfant, Editors. Marcel Dekker, Publisher, Vol. 198, 2001

    Books Edited:

  • Three patients: End of life care in intensive care medicine. Editors: Crippen D, Kilkullen J, Kelly D, Klewer Academic Publishers, New York; 1st edition (March 2002).

    Abstracts:

  • Greer K, Whetstine L, Crippen D: ICU physician management style may affect do-not-resuscitate orders. Crit Care Med 29 (12) S84/269 (suppl) 2002.

    References:

  • Crippen D (2003). End-of-life care in the ICU: Toward a newer concept of futility. In: Vincent JL (ed) 2003 Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer, Heidelberg, March 2003.

  • The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid? Crippen D Critical Care 2001, 5: 312-314

Presentations at major meetings (past calendar year)

  • Disaster Medicine and the Internet, Role of the Internet in critical care in 2001: 8th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Sydney, Australia, 28 Oct – 2 Nov, 2001.