CHOP Research Scientist Honored with American Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award
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Dr. Vinay Nadkarni is recognized for his lifetime contributions to cardiac arrest resuscitation science.
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Dr. Vinay Nadkarni is recognized for his lifetime contributions to cardiac arrest resuscitation science.
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An electronic alert system helps clinicians quickly do a bedside assessment to identify children with severe sepsis in an emergency department. Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia report on their efforts to rapidly recognize this life-threatening condition.
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On June 6, 2017, surgeons at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) successfully completed the separation of 10-month-old conjoined twins Erin and Abby Delaney.
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Fifty years ago, CHOP established the nation’s first pediatric intensive care unit for the sickest children. Those six beds are now a 55-bed unit caring for 3,000-plus children a year.
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Two CHOP Critical Care physicians co-authored a national study showing how timing is crucial when using epinephrine in hospitalized children with cardiac arrest.
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Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, a critical care medicine physician at CHOP, received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Critical Care.
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Dr. Litman allowed Ashley’s service dog to place his paw over the anesthesia syringe administered to Ashley when she became upset before two procedures in the gastroenterology suite.
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At The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, it is common for parents to be present when a child receives anesthesia, but caregivers recently called on the support of another member of the household — the family dog.
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CHOP experts are co-authors of two large studies of outcomes after in-hospital cardiac arrest, showing longer CPR times improve survival rates for children and adults.
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A CHOP researcher is leading a collaborative, federally funded study to help veterans and active-duty service members better deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress-related conditions.