Matthew P Kirschen

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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Director, Pediatric Neurocritical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Office: 215-590-7430
Education:
BS (Neuroscience)
Brandeis University , 2000.
PhD (Neuroscience)
Stanford University School of Medicine , 2006.
MD (Medicine)
Stanford University School of Medicine, 2007.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, 2007-2009.
Fellow in Child Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2009-2012.
Fellow in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2012-2015.
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Description of Itmat Expertise

Pediatric Neurocritical Care

Selected Publications

Ford HR, Lieberman L, Prabhakar G, Liu H, Kirschen MP, Fitzgerald JC, Weiss SL, Abend NS, Topjian AA, Alcamo AM: EEG Features Associated with Mortality and New Morbidity in Critically Ill Children with Sepsis. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting May 2024 Notes: Poster Presentation on May 2nd at PAS 2024.

Hurlock A, Seeney A, Ranieri N, Burnett R, Douglas R, Majmudar T, Krishna A, Goto R, Forti R, Lynch J, Baker W, Kirschen M, Ko T: Diffuse Optical Monitoring of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Oxygen Metabolism after Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Case Studies. Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics April 2024 Notes: Oral Presentation, April 9th, 2024, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.

Kirschen MP, Lewis A, Rubin MA, Varelas PN, Greer DM: Beyond the Final Heartbeat: Neurological Perspectives on Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Organ Donation after Circulatory Death. Annals of Neurology Epub ahead of print, March 2024.

Bach AM, Kirschen MP, Fung FW, Abend NS, Ampah S, Mondal A, Huh JW, Chen SL, Yuan I, Graham K, Berman JI, Vossough A, Topjian A: Association of EEG Background With Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging and Short-Term Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest. Neurology 102(5): e209134, March 2024.

Greer DM, Lewis A, Kirschen MP: New developments in guidelines for brain death/death by neurological criteria. Nature Reviews. Neurology February 2024.

Kirschen MP, Lewis A: Brain death determination. American Neurological Association Podcast February 2024.

Lewis A, Kirschen MP, Greer DM: Author Response: Although brain death/death by Neurologic Criteria. Neurology. Author Response: Pediatric and Adult Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Consensus Guideline, January 2024.

Andrist E, Flori H, Kirschen M, Carroll C, Firn J: Death Spiral by Neurologic Criteria: Navigating Parental Responses to Pediatric Brain Death. Critical Care Congress January 2024 Notes: Abstract presented at SCCM 2024, January 22nd, 2024, Bronze Snapshot Award.

Shepard LN , Napolitano N, Dominick CL, Nickel AJ, Shults J, Mcgovern EL, Bruins BB, O'Halloran A, Huh J, Topjian AA, Kirschen MP, Morgan RW, Sutton RM, Nadkarni VM, Nishisaki A: Low Quality Bag-Mask Ventilation is Associated With Adverse Airway Outcomes. Critical Care Congress January 2024 Notes: Presented at SCCM 2024, January 23rd, 2024 - Star Research Award.

Raymond T, Topjian AA, Lasa J, Nadkarni VM, Kirschen MP, Petersen T, Wakeham M, Esangbedo I, Rajapreyar P, Sangmo Je, Griffis H, Zhang X, Francoeur C : Cerebral Oximetry During Pediatric In-hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Multicenter Study of Survival and Neurologic Outcome. Critical Care Medicine Online ahead of print, January 2024.

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