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Benjamin Berendinus Bruins, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
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Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Attending Physician, General Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Co-Chair, Hospital Difficult Airway Committee , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
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21 7 MD 15 (Medicine) c
3b Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2006.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

47 Pediatric Perioperative Care, Pediatric Neuroanesthesia
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Selected Publications

1bc Hyde E, Mehta SD, Tsui FR, Silva LV, Nadkarni VM, Napolitano N, Shepard LN, Bruins BB, Kirschen M, Topjian AA, Laverriere EL, Nickel AJ, Dominick C, Nishisaki A: Novel Predictive Model for Pediatric Bag Mask Ventilation Breath Quality Using Capnography Waveforms. Critical Care Congress February 2025 Notes: Star Research Project Presented at SCCM 2025, Orlando, Florida.

167 Bruins BB, Lockman JL, Muhly WT, Laskin B, Pearsall M, Levine M, Amaral S: PAAD Reader Response: On Choice of crystalloid during pediatric kidney transplantion. Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day April 2024 Notes: https://ronlitman.substack.com/p/paad-reader-response-on-choice-of.

17c Mcgovern EL, Bruins BB, Donoghue A, Rappold T, Deshpande S, Dominick C, Boulet J, Nishisaki A: Validation of Multidisciplinary Consensus-Based Pediatric Tracheal Intubation Skill Assessment. Society of Critical Care Congress January 2024 Notes: Poster Presentation at Society of Critical Care Congress 2024.

e3 Benjamin B Bruins: Status Epilepticus. Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, PediCrisis app. Society of Pediatric Anesthesia (eds.). Pedi Crisis 2.0, Nov 2023.

15c Lenz KB, Nishisaki A, Lindell RB, Yehya N, Laverriere EK, Bruins BB, Napolitano N, Traynor DM, Rowan CM, Fitzgerald JC: Peri-Intubation Adverse Events in the Critically Ill Child After Hematopoietic Cell Transplant. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 24(7): 584-593, July 2023.

13a Napolitano N, Bruins BB, McGowan N, Dominick C, Kirschen M, Nickel A, Huh J, Topjian A, Shults J, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A: Quality of Bag-Mask Ventilation in Critically Ill Children. 2023 Critical Care Congress January 2023 Notes: SCCM 2023.

1d6 Daigle CH, Laverriere EK, Bruins BB, Lockman JL, Fiadjoe JE, McGowan N, Napolitano N, Shults J, Nadkarni VM, Nishisaki A, for the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children: NEAR4KIDS Investigators Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Sepsis Investigators (PALISI): Mitigation and Outcomes of Difficult Bag-Mask Ventilation in Critically Ill Children. Journal Of Pediatric Intensive Care January 2023.

14b Laverriere E, Je S, Ronan L, Madison M, Schramm S, Traynor DM, Bruins B, Boyer D, Napolitano N, Nishisaki A: Visualizing Pediatric Critical Care Fellow Tracheal Intubation Learning Curves. 2023 Critical Care Congress January 2023 Notes: SCCM Conference 2023.

ec Ong JM, Tijssen JA, Bruins BB, Nishisaki A: Chapter 25, Airway Management. Rogers’ Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care Page: 341-365, 2023 Notes: Sixth Edition.

142 Bruins BB: Expert Contributor, Multidisciplinary collaborative to develop intraoperative Status Epilepticus checklist, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Critical Events Checklists. https://pedsanesthesia.org/critical-events-checklists/ November 2022.

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