Benjamin Berendinus Bruins, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, General Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Chair, Hospital Difficult Airway Committee , 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
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
bruinsb@email.chop.edu
bruinsb@email.chop.edu
Education:
BS (Biology)
The Ohio State University, 2002.
MD (Medicine)
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2006.
Permanent linkBS (Biology)
The Ohio State University, 2002.
MD (Medicine)
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2006.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Pediatric Perioperative Care, Pediatric NeuroanesthesiaSelected Publications
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.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.
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.
Benjamin B Bruins: Status Epilepticus. Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, PediCrisis app. Society of Pediatric Anesthesia (eds.). Pedi Crisis 2.0, Nov 2023.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.