Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital
Anesthesiology
Dr. Edward A. Bittner, MD
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Edward Bittner is an expert in the field of Anesthesiology. He attended Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked 20 in research and 62 in primary care medicine He received 2 awards: "Fellow American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP)" and "Fellow American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM)". Edward Bittner is also a published doctor. He has 66 paper published. The most recent paper is: Minimum Effective Doses of Succinylcholine and Rocuronium During Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Prospective, Randomized, Crossover Trial. Edward Bittner accepts Medicare.
Publications
- The "Flipped Classroom" Model for Teaching in the Intensive Care Unit: Rationale, Practical Considerations, and an Example of Successful Implementation.
- Anesthesia Care Transitions and Risk of Postoperative Complications.
- Innovative strategies in critical care education.
- Acute and Perioperative Care of the Burn-injured Patient.
- Influenza-associated critical illness: estimating the burden and the burden of estimation*.
- Benefit of using a "bundled" consent for intensive care unit procedures as part of an early family meeting.
- Con: cardiac anesthesiologists should not be the intensivists of the operating room.
- Prototype electronic stethoscope vs conventional stethoscope for auscultation of heart sounds.
- Glucose control in pediatric burn patients: refining the search for the "sweet spot"*.
- The effects of preoperative, video-assisted anesthesia education in Spanish on Spanish-speaking patients' anxiety, knowledge, and satisfaction: a pilot study.
- Prospective Study of Vitamin D Status at Initiation of Care in Critically Ill Surgical Patients and Risk of 90-Day Mortality.
- Duration of delirium and postintensive care functional outcome: over the hill?
- Catatonia in the ICU: An Important and Underdiagnosed Cause of Altered Mental Status. A Case Series and Review of the Literature.
- Association Between Preoperative 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Hospital-Acquired Infections Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
- Examination of Patterns in Intubation by an Emergency Airway Team at a Large Academic Center: Higher Frequency During Daytime Hours.
- Development and validation of an intraoperative predictive model for unplanned postoperative intensive care.
- Validation of a risk stratification index and risk quantification index for predicting patient outcomes: in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, 1-year mortality, and...
- Postpneumonectomy Syndrome: A Case of Shifting Priorities.
- Delay of transfer from the intensive care unit: a prospective observational study of incidence, causes, and financial impact.
- Oral midodrine treatment accelerates the liberation of intensive care unit patients from intravenous vasopressor infusions.
- Sedation and paralysis.
- The decision to use succinylcholine for critically ill patients should not be based on duration of time in the intensive care unit alone.
- Critical illness is associated with decreased plasma levels of coenzyme Q10: A cross-sectional study.
- Tegaderm⢠Trauma in the Operating Room.
- A 5-year observational study of lung-protective ventilation in the operating room: A single-center experience.
- Tracheostomy tube change before day 7 is associated with earlier use of speaking valve and earlier oral intake.
- Implementation of 24/7 intensivist presence in the SICU: Effect on processes of care.
- Altered Arterial Compliance in Hypertensive Pregnant Women Is Associated with Preeclampsia.
- Use of video laryngoscopy and camera phones to communicate progression of laryngeal edema in assessing for extubation: a case series.
- Novel preventive strategies for ventilator-associated pneumonia.
- Neuromuscular blocking agent for emergent tracheal intubation: More questions than answers.
- Not using neuromuscular blocking agents in emergent intubation should be a rarity.
- Dexmedetomidine for sedation in the parturient with respiratory failure requiring noninvasive ventilation.
- The ventilator liberation process: update on technique, timing, and termination of tracheostomy.
- Tracheal reintubation: caused by "too much of a good thing"?
- Global Muscle Strength But Not Grip Strength Predicts Mortality and Length of Stay in a General Population of Patients in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
- Tracheostomy Change Before Day 7 Is Associated With Earlier Use of Speaking Valve and Earlier Oral Intake.
- Treating bacterial virulence systems: we are not there yet.
- Neuromuscular blocking agent administration for emergent tracheal intubation is associated with decreased prevalence of procedure-related complications.
- Evaluation of the association between quality of handover and length of stay in the post anaesthesia care unit: a pilot study.
- Ketamine Activates Breathing and Abolishes the Coupling between Loss of Consciousness and Upper Airway Dilator Muscle Dysfunction.
- The surgical intensive care unit optimal mobility score predicts mortality and length of stay.
- Negative pressure pulmonary edema following bronchospasm.
- A clinical assessment of the Mucus Shaver: a device to keep the endotracheal tube free from secretions.
- Acute hypopituitarism in a pregnant patient after cardiac gunshot injury.
- Pus in the Ventricles of a Patient with a Lumbar Cerebrospinal Fluid Drain for a Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm Repair.
- Successful management of a morbidly obese patient for electroconvulsive therapy with elective tracheostomy.
- Tracheobronchomegaly: a rare cause of endotracheal tube cuff leak.
- Early mobilization in critically ill patients: patients' mobilization level depends on health care provider's profession.
- Brief review: anesthetic neurotoxicity in the elderly, cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease.
- Emergency airway management.
- Case scenario: acute postoperative negative pressure pulmonary edema.
- Temporal trends in the epidemiology of severe postoperative sepsis after elective surgery: a large, nationwide sample.
- Measurement of muscle strength in the intensive care unit.
- Perioperative spinal cord infarction in nonaortic surgery: report of three cases and review of the literature.
- Haloperidol plus ondansetron versus ondansetron alone for prophylaxis of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Haloperidol versus ondansetron for prophylaxis of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Vitamin d status and community-acquired pneumonia: results from the third national health and nutrition examination survey.
- Hemodynamic management and outcome of patients treated for cerebral vasospasm with intraarterial nicardipine and/or milrinone.
- Effects of supervision by attending anesthesiologists on complications of emergency tracheal intubation.
- To decannulate or not to decannulate: a combination of readiness for the floor and floor readiness?
- Improvement in emergency airway equipment transport.
- Postoperative residual curarization from intermediate-acting neuromuscular blocking agents delays recovery room discharge.
- Extravascular lung water as a predictor of mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Minimum Effective Doses of Succinylcholine and Rocuronium During Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Prospective, Randomized, Crossover Trial.
Schools
Mount Sinai School Of Medicine Of New York University
Mass Gen Hospital
Yale New Haven Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP)
- Fellow American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM)
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Yale-New Haven Hospital -
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1215912456 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BITTNER |
| First Name Of The Provider | EDWARD |
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