Publications and Presentations

Dr. Jay Cowen

PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS:

• Girard DE and Cowen JS: Infectious endocarditis in heart disease: a subtle
  Presentation of a classic disease. Houston Medicine 6:145-147, 1990.
• Hirano M, Raps EC, Cowen JS: Prolonged weakness and vecuronium.
  Ann Int Med 7:570 (letter), 1993.
• Santoro M, Sestito J, Cowen J, Craemer S, Gradwell L, Palevsky H
  Inappropriate ordering of arterial blood gases by physicians in a
  surgical intensive care unit. Resp Care 38(1)A, 1993.
• Bone RC, Hayden WR, Levine RL, McCartney JR, Barkin RL, Clark S, Cowen J,
  et al: Recognition, assessment and treatment of anxiety in the critical care
  patient. Disease a Month 41 (5):296-359, 1995.
• Spevetz A, Brilli, RJ, Warren J, Bayly RW, Carl L, Cowen JS, et al:
  Guidelines for resident training in critical care medicine. Crit Care
  Med 23: 1920-1923, 1995.
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Mawji ZM, Baker K, Kaufman JH, Ray DE: A chest radiograph
  protocol in mechanically ventilated patients: reduced resource utilization with maintained
  quality of care. Chest 114:354S, 1998.
• Forman D, Rae-Grant AD, Matchett SC, Cowen JS: A reversible cause of hypercapnic respiratory failure, lower motor neuronopothy associated with renal cell carcinoma. Chest 115: 899-901, 1999.
• Murray M,  Cowen J, et al: Practice parameters for sustained neuromscular blockade in the
  Adult critically ill patient. Crit Care Med.30(1):142-156, 2002

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS:

• Cowen J, Matchett S, Shah U, Baker K, Wasser T, Kaufman J: Higher
  Mortality associated with pulmonary artery catheterization related to
  clinical deterioration prior to pulmonary artery catheter insertion. Crit
  Care Med 26: A65, 1998. 
• Cowen JS, Matchett SC, Kaufman JH, Baker K, Wasser T, Ray DE: Progressive reduction in
  severity adjusted mortality after implementation of a multi-disciplinary critical care program.
  Crit Care Med 27:A35, 1999.
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Kaufman JH, Wasser T, Baker K, Ray DE, et al: Organized
  multi-disciplinary critical care reduces mortality and cost for medical patients in
  diagnosis related group 483: respiratory failure with tracheostomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.
  159(3):A85, 1999.
• Wasser T, Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Kaufman JH, Ray DE: Applicability of non-parametric
  regression analysis in critical care evaluations for data that contain outliers.
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 159(3):A915, 1999.
• Ray DE, Miller K, Cowen JS, Matchett SC, Snyder R, Kaufman JH, Wasser TE: Comparison of weaning parameters via external spirometry versus cpap/flow-by mode of a mechanical ventilator.
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 159 (3):A370, 1999.
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Cunningham K et al: Comparison of APACHE II and multiple organ dysfunction score in critically ill medical patients.  Crit Care Med. 27(12)A53, 2000.
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Ray, D et al: Poor performance of a state mandated severity adjustment system in critically ill patients: Implications for public policy. Crit Care Med. 30(12)A 103, 2002. (Full manuscript submitted for publication, Crit Care Med.)
• Wasser T, Cowen JS, et al: Independent validation of the critical care family satisfaction survey. Crit Care Med. 29(12)A 494, 2002.
• Walsh PF, Matchett SC, Cowen JS, et al: Effect of an intensivist led critical care program over five years. Crit Care Med 31(12)A 100, 2004.
• Lidsky NM, Joffe A, Hodgman T, Atkinson P, Ryzner D, Ruiz C, Nixon D, Cowen, J et al: Time to implementation of early goal directed therapy (EGDT) for patients with septic shock is reduced by a multidisciplinary sepsis team. Crit Care Med 2006.
• Cruz K, Joffe A, Lidsky N, Cowen J: Implementation of a post-arrest hypothermia protocol in a community-based non-teaching hospital: a feasibility study. Crit Care Med, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS:

• Hansen-Flaschen J, Cowen J and Raps EC: Neuromuscular blockade in the
  intensive care unit, more than we bargained for. Am Rev Respir Dis
  147:234-236,1993.
• Paz HL, Cowen JS, Hansen-Flaschen JH: Cost controversies: a patient with
  respiratory failure. Hosp Phys 29:16-26; 56, 1993.
• Cowen JS and Kelley MA: Errors and bias in using predictive scoring systems.
  Crit Care Clin 10:53 -72, 1994.
• Hansen-Flaschen J, Cowen JS, Polomano R: Beyond the Ramsey Scale: the need
  for a validated measure of sedating drug efficacy in the ICU.  Crit Care Med
  22:732-733, 1994.
• Cowen JS and Kelley MA: An organized approach to detecting pulmonary embolism
  in the critically ill patient. J Crit Ill 9:551-567, 1994.
• Cowen JS and Kelley MA: Pulmonary embolism: strategies for prevention and
  treatment. J Crit Ill 9:988-991, 1994.
• Cowen JS and Matchett SC: Selection, implementation and uses of a critical care data base.
  Crit Care Clin 15:481-497, 1999.
• Cowen, J., Lindberg, J. Making a change. Critical Connections, Vol. 3 (5): 10, Oct. 2004.
• Cowen, J., Lindberg, J., Rainey, T. Proven Strategies for keeping a team on track.
  Critical Connections, Vol. 3 (6): 20. Dec. 2004.
• Cowen, J., Egol, A., Lindberg, J., Rainey, T. Tools for effective team communication.
  Critical Connections. Vol 4 (1): 15. Feb. 2005.
• Cowen, J., Egol, A., Lindberg, J., Rainey, T. Managing team conflict. Critical Connections. Vol. 4 (2): 1 and 15. Apr. 2005.
  Cowen, J., Egol, A., Lindberg, J., Rainey, T. Promoting cultural change in critical care:
  Moving away from the traditional mindset. Critical Connections. Vol. 4 (3): 6 – 7. June 2005.       

LECTURES :

• "The Syndrome of Hepatic Enzyme Elevation and Low Platelets in Pregnancy"
   New South Wales Regional Meeting
  The Australia, New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS), 1990
• "Pulmonary Oxalosis in Aspergillus niger Infection",
  57th Annual International Scientific Assembly
  The American College of Chest Physicians
  Chicago, Illinois, 1992
• "Myocardial Dysfunction in Sepsis"
   Grand Rounds, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
   Browns Mills, New Jersey, 1992
• "Controlling Pharmaceutical Costs-The Physicians' Perspective".
   Special Session of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
   Atlanta, Georgia, 1993
• "Intensive Care Quality Management-What is it?"
  Grand Rounds, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
  Browns Mills, New Jersey, 1993
• "Sedation in the Medical Intensive Care Unit"
  Stuart Pharmaceuticals Diprivan ICU Sedation Launch Meeting
  Dallas, Texas, 1993
• “Severity of Illness Scoring and Mortality Prediction in Critical Care”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Diego, California, 1997
  Sponsor, SpaceLabs Medical Inc.
• “Clinical Outcome Assessment and Cost Containment in Critical Care”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Antonio, Texas, 1998
  Sponsor, SpaceLabs Medical Inc.
• “Progressive Reduction in Mortality After Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Critical Care Program”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Francisco, California, 1999
• “Therapeutic Bronchoscopy and Tracheobronchial Stent Placement”
  Advanced Technologies in Pulmonary Medicine
  Pennsylvania Society of Respiratory Therapists Educational Symposium
  Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1999
• “A Clinicians Approach Coma in the Intensive Care Unit”
  26th Annual Midwest Conference
  American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  Chicago, Illinois, 2000
• “Organized Critical Care: Impact on Outcome and Models of Implementation”
  26th Annual Midwest Conference
  American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  Chicago, Illinois, 2000
• "Weakness Syndromes in Critical Care"
  8th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
  Sydney, Australia, 2001
• "Strokes Should Not Be Managed in the ICU"
  8th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
  Sydney, Australia, 2001
• "Intensive Care Sans Frontiere", Session Moderator
  8th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
  Sydney, Australia, 2001
• Guest Lecturer
  University of Chicago College of Medicine
  Participant in Monthly Lecture Series in Critical Care Medicine
  2000 to 2003
• ABIM-SEP Critical Care Board Review Course
  Moderator and instructor
  32nd  Critical Care Congress
  Orlando, Florida, 2004
• ABIM-SEP Critical Care Board Review Course
  Moderator and instructor
  33rd  Critical Care Congress
  Phoenix, Arizona, 2004
• “The Enhanced ICU, Innovations in the intensive care unit:
  Remote monitoring extends quality”
  Meditech Physicians Users Group Meeting
  Boston, MA, 2005
• Effective Teambuilding in Critical Care:
  Tools and Techniques for Successful ICU Teams
  Course Chair
  Chicago, Illinois, 2005
• ABIM-SEP Critical Care Board Review Course
  Instructor
  Chicago, Illinois,  2006, 2007

Dr. Stephen Machett

PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS:

• Matchett SC, Kricun B, Castaldo JE et al.  External validation and comparison of two predictive models for 30 day mortality in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. Stroke 2002
• Ray DE, Matchett SC, Wasser T et al. Effect of lead-time bias on the performance of APACHE II.  Crit Care Med 2000
• Miller K, Matchett SC, Wieand F et al.  Utilization of prone positioning in late phase ARDS.  Am Assoc Resp Care 2000
• Forman D, Rae-Grant AD, Matchett SC, Cowen JS: A reversible cause of hypercapnic respiratory failure; Lower motor neuronopothy associated with renal cell carcinoma. Chest 115: 899-901, 1999.

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS :

• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Cunningham K et al: Comparison of APACHE II and multiple organ dysfunction score in critically ill medical patients.  Crit Care Med. 27(12)A53, 2000.
• Cowen JS, Matchett SC, Kaufman JH, Baker K, Wasser T, Ray DE: Progressive reduction in
  severity adjusted mortality after implementation of a multi-disciplinary critical care program.
  Crit Care Med 27:A35, 1999.
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Kaufman JH, Wasser T, Baker K, Ray DE, et al: Organized
  multi-disciplinary critical care reduces mortality and cost for medical patients in
  diagnosis related group 483: respiratory failure with tracheostomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.
  159(3):A85, 1999.
• Wasser T, Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Kaufman JH, Ray DE: Applicability of non-parametric
  regression analysis in critical care evaluations for data that contain outliers.
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 159(3):A915, 1999.
• Ray DE, Miller K, Cowen JS, Matchett SC, Snyder R, Kaufman JH, Wasser TE: Comparison of weaning parameters via external spirometry versus cpap/flow-by mode of a mechanical ventilator.
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 159 (3):A370, 1999.
• Cowen J, Matchett S, Shah U, Baker K, Wasser T, Kaufman J: Higher
  Mortality associated with pulmonary artery catheterization related to
  clinical deterioration prior to pulmonary artery catheter insertion. Crit
  Care Med 26: A65, 1998. 
• Matchett SC, Cowen JS, Mawji ZM, Baker K, Kaufman JH, Ray DE: A chest radiograph
  protocol in mechanically ventilated patients: reduced resource utilization with maintained
  quality of care. Chest 114:354S, 1998.

PUBLICATIONS/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS:

• Cowen JS and Matchett SC: Selection, implementation and uses of a critical care data base.
  Crit Care Clin 15:481-497, 1999.

LECTURES :

• “Severity of Illness Scoring and Mortality Prediction in Critical Care”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Diego, California, 1997
  Sponsor, SpaceLabs Medical Inc.
• “Clinical Outcome Assessment and Cost Containment in Critical Care”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Antonio, Texas, 1998
  Sponsor, SpaceLabs Medical Inc.
• “Progressive Reduction in Mortality After Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Critical Care Program”
  International Scientific Symposium
  Society of Critical Care Medicine
  San Francisco, California, 1999

Dr. Scott Chelemer

PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS

• Chelemer S, B Prato, P Cox Jr., G O’Connor, J Morton.  Association of bacterial infection and red blood cell transfusion after coronary artery bypass surgery.  Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2002; 73(1):138-142.
• Chelemer S, A Perry, R Lamb, P Bates.  An assessment of physician accuracy in staging lung cancer. (Abstract). American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1995; 4:A846.

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS

• An assessment of physician accuracy in staging lung cancer. Medical Grand Rounds, Maine Medical Center, February 1995.

Dr. Kenneth Cruz

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS:

• Cruz K, Eliasberg S, Shlafer M: The Generation of Superoxide Radicals by Hepatic Aldehyde Oxidase During Oxidation of Malondialdehyde and Allopurinol. University of Michigan, Department of Pharmacology; Poster - University of Michigan Research Conference 1991
• Cruz K, McGuire S, Dumasius A, Parrillo J, and Hollenberg S: Antibiotics Combined With Fluid Increases Survival In A Murine Septic Model. Section of Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College; Abstract, Society of Critical Care Medicine Conference 2001, San Francisco, CA
• Cruz KQ, Parrillo JE, Hollenberg SM: Demonstration Of Decreased Microvascular Permeability In Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Deficient Septic Mice By In Vivo Fluorescence Videomicroscopy., Rush Medical College Chicago, IL; Abstract #428 - Society of Critical Care Medicine Conference 2002, San Diego, CA
• Cruz K, Mikecz K, Hollenberg SM: Reduced Leukocyte Rolling and Adhesion In Vivo in CD44 and L-Selectin Double Knockout Mice in Response to Cytokine-Induced Inflammation.. Rush Medical College, Chicago IL; Abstract #101 – Clinical Research 2002, Baltimore MD
• Cruz K, Mikecz K, Hollenberg SM: Reduced Leukocyte Adhesion and Vascular Leakage After TNF-alpha Induced Inflammation In CD44 and L-Selectin Double Knockout Mice.. Rush Medical College, Chicago IL; Shock 2002, Big Sky, MO
• Cruz KQ, Hollenberg SM, Parrillo JE: Decreased Leukocyte Adhesion and Microvascular Leakage By Superoxide Dismutase Treatment in a Murine Model of Sepsis. Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ; SCCM 2003, San Antonio TX
• Cruz K, Joffe A, Lidsky N, Cowen J: Implementation of a post-arrest hypothermia protocol in a community-based non-teaching hospital: a feasibility study. Crit Care Med, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS:

• Cruz K, Franklin C: The Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Uses and Controversies. Critical Care Clinics: Acute Cardiac Care. Editors: Hollenberg SM, Kelly RF. WB Saunders Company 2001, Vol. 17, No.2, pp 271-291
• Cruz K, Dellinger RP: Review of "Human Neutrophil Activation and Increased
  Adhesion by Various Resuscitation Fluids"; Yearbook of Critical Care Medicine 2001, Mosby; pp.147-148
• Cruz K, Dellinger RP: Diagnosis and Source of Sepsis: The Utility Of Clinical Findings. The Sepsis Text. Editors: Vincent JL, Carlet J, Opal SM; Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002, pp. 11-28
• Cruz K, Hollenberg S: Modifying Leukocyte Endothelial Interactions in Acute Inflammatory Models; Crit Care Med, August 2002; 1924-25
• Cruz K, Hollenberg S: Update on Septic Shock: Recognizing the Disease; J Crit Illness, April 2003; pp.151-61
  Cruz K, Hollenberg S: Update on Septic Shock: The Latest Approaches to Treatment; J Crit Illness, April 2003; pp. 162-68
• Contributor for Self-Assessment in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Comprehensive Review, 5th Edition; R Phillip Dellinger, Editor; SCCM, 2003
• Contributor for Critical Care Medicine: Review and Self-Assessment, Editors: JE Parrillo, RP Dellinger, SL Zanotti-Cavazzoni, S Trzeciak, Elsevier Mosby 2005

LECTURES:

• “Hypothermia in the post-arrest patient”
  Grand Rounds
  Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, CA 2006

Dr. Rotem Friede

PUBLICATIONS/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS:

• Tim Erickson MD, Steve Aks MD, Friede R, et al: Pediatric Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Poisoned Child, 2004.
• R. Philip Dellinger
  Self Assessment in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Comprehensive Review, 5th Edition, 2003. (Contributor)
• Friede R, Erickson T: Withdrawal Syndromes; Toxicology Secrets, Hanley & Belfus, Inc. 2001
• Wahl M, Friede R: Lead; Toxicology Secrets, Hanley & Belfus, Inc. 2001
• Bansil S, Singhal B, Ahuja GK, Ladiwala U, Friede R, et al: Comparison between Multiple Sclerosis in India and the United States; Neurology, June 1995

Dr. Jaime Simon Grahe

PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS

• West, M.H., Swanson, J.J., Simon, J.J., Elmquist, J.K., Jacobson, C.D. and Sakaguchi, D.S.  (1996)  Postnatal development and the differential expression of presynaptic terminal-associated proteins in the developing retina of the Brazilian opossum Monodelphis domestica.  Devel. Brain Res.  96:  159-172.

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS

• Patel GP, Sperry M, Yoder M, Simon Grahe J, Balk RA.  Efficacy and Safety of Dopamine versus Norepinephrine in the Management of Septic Shock.  Society of Critical Care Medicine Meeting (in submission for 2008)
  Simon Grahe J, Shashaa S, Patel GP, Elpern E, and Balk RA.  Incidence and outcome of vasopressor resistance in septic shock.  Chest Meeting 2006 130: 150S-a 
• Patel GP, Crank CW, Proia L, Simon Grahe J, Simon D.  Candidemia associated Septic Shock.  Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) meeting 2006
• Simon Grahe J, Patel GP, Balk RA.  Physiologic Stressed Cortisol Levels in Vasopressor Dependent Septic Shock Correlate with 28-Day Mortality.  American Thoracic Society Meeting 2006
• Bell JW, Simon Grahe J, Patel GP, Balk RA.  Etiologic Cause of Septic Shock Is Not Associated with Duration of Vasopressor Therapy or 28 Day Mortality.  American Thoracic Society Meeting 2006
• Patel GP, Simon Grahe J, Balk RA.  Evaluation of Adrenal Function and Infecting Pathogen in Septic Shock.  American Thoracic Society Meeting 2006
• Simon Grahe J, Patel GP, Elpern E, Balk RA.  The safety of dopamine versus norepinephrine as vasopressor therapy in septic shock.  Chest 2005; 128 (4): 219S
• Simon Grahe J, Patel GP, Elpern E, Kellar D, Balk RA.  Dopamine versus norepinephrine as the initial vasopressor in septic shock.  ATS International Conference 2005
• Simon Grahe J, Casey L, White G. Pulmonary cement embolism following percutaneous vertebroplasty. Chest 2004; 126 (4): 956S

Dr. Nathan Lidsky

PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS:

• Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, FCCP; Nathan M. Lidsky, MD; Lisa M. Dotterwiech, BS; and Michael R. Pinsky, MD, FCCP:  The Influence of High-Frequency Jet Ventilation with varying cardiac-cycle specific synchronization on cardiac output in ARDS.  Chest 1997; 112:1600-1606
• E. Katz, S. Li, B. Nour, H. Wright, A. Sebastian, A. Gurakar, N. Lidsky:  One center’s experience of using cyclosporine (CsA) vs. FK506 as primary immunosuppression for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTX).  Transplant Proc; In Press 1996.

ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS:

• Lidsky, N.M., Pinsky, M.R., Ferance, A.J., Snyder, J.V.:  Assessment of cardiac output measurement reliability using a continuous arterial pulse contour method in the critically ill.  Chest 1991; 100(2), Suppl:  124S.
• Lidsky, N.M, Dotterweich, L.M., Pinsky, M.R., Snyder, J.V.:  Evaluation of a continuous cardiac output device which utilizes arterial pulse contour analysis.  Anesthesiology 1992; 77(3A):  A590.
• Lidsky, N.M, Atwell, J.V., Chandler, J.M., Dotterweich, L.M., Stein, K.L., Pinsky, M.R.:  Oxygen delivery and consumption covary in patients following coronary artery bypass grafting, Chest 1992; 102(2), Suppl 132S.
• Lidsky, N.M., Angus, D.C., Dotterweich, L.M., Pinsky, M.R.:  Demonstration of cardiopulmonary interactions during high frequency jet ventilation utilizing a continuous cardiac output monitor.  Accepted for oral presentation at the 1993 annual ASA meeting in October.
• Attwell, J.V., Lidsky, N.M., Chandler, J.M., Stein, K.L., Dotterweich, L.M., Pinsky, M.R., Interstitial pH decreases postoperatively despite stability of oxygen transport variables in open heart patients.  Chest 1992; 102(2), Suppl 135S.
• Angus, D.C., Lidsky, N.M., Dotterweich, L.M., Pinsky, M.R., Titration of ventricular assist by synchronized high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) using continuous cardiac output monitoring.  Intensive Care Medicine 1992; 18(2), Suppl S180.
• Chaparela, R., Kramer, D., Miro, A., Angus, D., Linden, P., Thomas, E., Lidsky, N.M., Vukimir, R., Rosenbloom, A., Byrne, C., Snyder, J., Pinsky, M.:  Comparison of clinical score, bronchoalveolor lavage (BAL), a protected brush specimen (PBS) for bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with liver disease.  Accepted for presentation at the ATS Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, California, MAY 13-16, 1993.
• Y. Lou, B. Nour, H. Wright, A. Sebastian, A. Guraker, N. Lidsky, E. Katz:  Morbid obesity patients can safely undergo liver transplant.  The Fifth International Congress of The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation, Limassol, Cyprus, October 20-24, 1996.
• E. Katz, S. Li, B. Nour, H. Wright, A. Sebastian, A. Guraker, N. Lidsky:  One center’s experience of using cyclosporine (CsA) vs. FZ506 as primary immunosuppression for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTX).  The Fifth International Congress of The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation, Limassol, Cyprus, October 20-24, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS:

• Cooper DK, Lidsky N, et al: The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs, Immediate postoperative care and potential complications.  Kluwer Academic Publishers; Boston.  2nd edition.