Professor, Pediatrics, UCSD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr. Bema K. Bonsu, MD

Dr. Bema K. Bonsu works in the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He graduated from University of Ghana Medical School. Bema Bonsu has written publications. He has 33 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Relationship of Physician-Identified Patient Race and Ethnicity to Use of Computed Tomography in Pediatric Blunt Torso Trauma.'

Publications

Relationship of Physician-Identified Patient Race and Ethnicity to Use of Computed Tomography in Pediatric Blunt Torso Trauma.
Use of Oral Contrast for Abdominal Computed Tomography in Children With BluntÃ‚Â Torso Trauma.
Sensitivity of plain pelvis radiography in children with blunt torso trauma.
Association Between the Seat Belt Sign and Intra-abdominal Injuries in Children With Blunt Torso Trauma in Motor Vehicle Collisions.
Variation in Resource Utilization Across a National Sample of PediatricÂ Emergency Departments.
US Estimates of Hospitalized Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Clinical Trials.
Introduction: special content focus: pediatrics.
Comparison of polyurethane foam to nylon flocked swabs for collection of secretions from the anterior nares in performance of a rapid influenza virus antigen test in a...
Effect of antibiotic pretreatment on cerebrospinal fluid profiles of children with bacterial meningitis.
Serious neurologic sequelae in cases of meningitis arising from infection by conjugate vaccine-related and nonvaccine-related serogroups of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Procedural sedation for fracture reduction in children with hyperactivity.
A decision rule for predicting bacterial meningitis in children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis when gram stain is negative or unavailable.
Modeling and detection of respiratory-related outbreak signatures.
Leukocyte counts in urine reflect the risk of concomitant sepsis in bacteriuric infants: a retrospective cohort study.
Physician handwashing: what do parents want?
Clinical prediction rule for identifying children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis at very low risk of bacterial meningitis.
Performance of rapid streptococcal antigen testing varies by personnel.
Diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis by detection of Streptococcus pyogenes in posterior pharyngeal versus oral cavity specimens.
Evaluation of the Quidel QuickVue test for detection of influenza A and B viruses in the pediatric emergency medicine setting by use of three specimen collection methods.
A pilot study of 1 versus 3 days of dexamethasone as add-on therapy in children with streptococcal pharyngitis.
Local weather effects on emergency department visits: a time series and regression analysis.
Susceptibility of recent bacterial isolates to cefdinir and selected antibiotics among children with urinary tract infections.
Corrections for leukocytes and percent of neutrophils do not match observations in blood-contaminated cerebrospinal fluid and have no value over uncorrected cells for ...
Serum biomarkers for identifying acute chest syndrome among patients who have sickle cell disease and present to the emergency department.
Accuracy and test characteristics of ancillary tests of cerebrospinal fluid for predicting acute bacterial meningitis in children with low white blood cell counts in c...
A low peripheral blood white blood cell count in infants younger than 90 days increases the odds of acute bacterial meningitis relative to bacteremia.
Explanation of mathematical model.
The utility of screening laboratory studies in pediatric patients with sickle cell pain episodes.
Differentiating acute bacterial meningitis from acute viral meningitis among children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis: a multivariable regression model.
Identifying febrile young infants with bacteremia: is the peripheral white blood cell count an accurate screen?
Utility of the peripheral blood white blood cell count for identifying sick young infants who need lumbar puncture.
Fever interval before diagnosis, prior antibiotic treatment, and clinical outcome for young children with bacterial meningitis.

Doctors Specialties

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Accepted Insurances

Education

University of Connecticut
University of Ghana Medical School

Hospital

Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego

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