Christopher Michael Horvat MD

PubMed

• Application of New Pediatric Sepsis Definition to a Multicenter Observational Cohort of Previously Enrolled Severe Sepsis Patients Defined by SIRS Plus Organ Dysfunction.
  Kate F Kernan, Mohammed Shaik, Christopher M Horvat, Dana Y Fuhrman, Zachary Aldewereld
  Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2025-06-16
• Early Use of a Risk-Adjusted Mechanical Ventilation Digital Quality Measure Bundle in a Large Health System.
  Christopher M Horvat, Jesse Klug, Ruoting Li, Jesse Raffa, Thomas Pollard
  Critical Care Medicine. 2025-06-12
• Association of Early Epinephrine with Hemodynamics and Outcome in Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Secondary Analysis of a Multi-center, Cluster-randomized Clin...
  Ashley Siems, Maryam Y Naim, Robert A Berg, Ron W Reeder, Tageldin Ahmed
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2025-06-04

Journal Articles

• Trends in US Pediatric Hospital Admissions in 2020 Compared with the Decade Before the COVID-19 Pandemic  
  Jonathan H Pelletier, Jaskaran Rakkar, Alicia K Au, Christopher M Horvat, JAMA Network Open
• Prescribing Prevalence of Medications with Potential Genotype-Guided Dosing in Pediatric Patients  
  Amber L Beitelshees, Philip E Empey, Christopher M Horvat, Jeffrey R Bishop, JAMA Network Open
• Taking Predictive Analytics to Point-of-Care  
  Horvat CM, Clark RS, Critical Care Connections, 1/1/2016
• Evaluation of Electronic Medical Record Vital Sign Data Versus a Commercially Available Acuity Score in Predicting Need for Critical Intervention at a Tertiary Childre...  
  Da Silva YS, Hamilton MF, Horvat CM, Fink EL, Palmer F, Nowalk AJ, et al, Pediatr Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• Liquid fluorocarbon lavage to clear thrombus from the distal airways after severe pulmonary hemorrhage requiring extracorporeal life support (ECLS)  
  Horvat CM, Carcillo JA, Dezfulian C, Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 1/1/2015
• Thiamin Deficiency as a Cause of Persistent Hyperlactatemia in a Parenteral Nutrition-Dependent Patient  
  Da Silva YS, Horvat CM, Dezfulian C, JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 1/1/2015
• Bringing attention into higher focus within the traumatic brain injury research agenda  
  Horvat CM, Bell MJ, Transl Pediatr, 1/1/2015
• Searching for the Brain’s Canary in the Coal Mine  
  Horvat CM, Fink EL, Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• A persistent pesticide residue and the unusual catalytic proficiency of a dehalogenating enzyme  
  Horvat CM, Wolfenden RV, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 1/8/2005
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Abstracts/Posters

• Post-resuscitation GCS is Associated with Outcome in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
  Horvat CM, Bell M, Wisniewski S, Balasubramani G, Kochanek P, Beers S, Danielle Brown S, Adelson P, Soc. Crit. Care Med. Annual Congress, Honolulu, HI, 1/25/2017
• Pharmacogenomic-based Evaluation of Fentanyl Requirements in Diagnostically Diverse PICU Patients
  Horvat CM, Au A, Empey P, Conley Y, Clark RS, Soc. Crit. Care Med. Annual Congress, Honolulu, HI, 1/25/2017
• Prospective Evaluation of the Pediatric Rothman Index as a Measure of Pediatric Inpatient Acuity
  Horvat CM, Hamilton MF, Almasi GS, Palmer F, Valenta C, Kyper C, Rothman MJ, and Clark RS, Health Services Research Session, Fink Scholar Day, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/26/2016
• Retrospective Evaluation of the Pediatric Rothman Index as a Predictor of Cardiac Arrest in a CICU
  Horvat CM, Sanchez-de-Toledo J, Wilson S, Palmer F, Rothman MJ, Finn S, Almasi GS, and Munoz R, Soc. Crit. Care Med. Annual Congress, Orlando, FL, 1/24/2016
• Prospective Evaluation of the Pediatric Rothman Index as a Measure of Pediatric Inpatient Acuity
  Horvat CM, Hamilton MF, Almasi GS, Palmer F, Valenta C, Kyper C, Rothman MJ, and Clark RS, Soc. Crit. Care Med. Annual Congress, Orlando, FL, 1/24/2016
• Presenting Glasgow Coma Scale score is associated with outcome in pediatric severe traumatic brain injury: a secondary analysis from a randomized, controlled trial of ...
  Horvat CM, Bell, MJ, Wisniewski S, Balasubramani G, Kochanek P, Beers S, Brown S, and Adelson P, Safar Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/17/2016
• A Commercially Available Acuity Score is a Predictor of Acute Care to Intensive Care Transfer
  Horvat CM, Suresh S, Palmer F, Hamilton MF, Almasi GS, Ashline J, Rothman MJ, Clark RS, World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1/8/2016
• Implementation of Condition E (Early, EMR Based Recognition of Clinical Deterioration) to Enhance Intervention Timeliness and Match Resource Intensity at a Tertiary Ca...
  Horvat CM, Palmer F, Srinivasan S, Clark B, Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, 1/3/2016
• The Pediatric Critical Care Ultrasound Initiative
  Horvat CM, Newmyer RE, Browning M, Aneja R, The Beckwith Institute Grant Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/23/2015
• A survey assessing PICU providers’ knowledge of the cost of care
  Horvat CM, Thompson AE, Soc. Crit. Care Med. Annual Congress, Phoenix, AZ, 1/17/2015
• Early Experience Developing and Implementing a Pediatric Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum
  Horvat CM, Newmyer RE, Browning M, Hamilton MF, Clark RS, Aneja R, Quality and Safety Session, Fink Scholar Day, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/3/2015
• Using EMR data to Detect Emergent Conditions at a Pediatric Hospital
  Horvat CM, Hamilton MF, Palmer F, Clark RS, Rothman M, Quality and Safety Session, Fink Scholar Day, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/3/2015
• The unknown cost of pediatric critical care: A survey assessing PICU providers’ awareness of the cost of care
  Horvat CM, Thompson AE, Quality and Safety Session, Fink Scholar Day; Rangos Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/3/2015
• Using EMR data to detect emergent conditions at a pediatric hospital
  Horvat CM, Hamilton M., Palmer F., Clark RS, Rothman M, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Scientific Symposium, Orlando, FL, 1/8/2014
• Exploring the Relationship between Extracellular Adenyl Purines and Neutrophils in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
  Horvat CM, Esther, CR, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Student Research Day, 1/1/2008
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Lectures

• Thoracic ultrasound 
  Pittsburgh, PA - 1/11/2016
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Critical Care 
  Pittsburgh, PA - 1/29/2015
• Condition E: Early, EMR-Based Recognition of Clinical Deterioration 
  Pittsburgh, PA - 1/22/2015
• Early, EMR-Based Recognition of Clinical Deterioration 
  Pittsburgh, PA - 1/15/2015
• Examining the Bill: An introduction to the cost of care 
  Seattle, WA - 1/1/2013
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