GeoffreyLBirdMDMSIS

Pediatric Cardiology • Philadelphia, PA

Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

Associate Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pediatrics, UPenn Perelman School of Medicine

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Office
CICU Physician Office Suite, Rm 8553
CHOP, 3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone+1 215-590-2367

Fax+1 215-590-4620
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Education & Training

Great Ormond Street HospitalECMO, ECMO & Cardiac ICU Medicine, 2003 - 2004
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaFellowship, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2001 - 2003
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaFellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 1998 - 2001
Tower Health/St. Christopher's Hospital for ChildrenResidency, Pediatrics, 1994 - 1998
Georgetown University School of MedicineClass of 1994

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1995 - 2024
FL State Medical License 2019 - 2021
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Cardiology
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

13 citations
Predicting and Surviving Prolonged Critical Illness After Congenital Heart Surgery.
Aaron G. DeWitt, Joseph W. Rossano, David K. Bailly, Priya N. Bhat, Nikhil K. Chanani, Brandon Kirkland, Michael-Alice Moga, Gabe E. Owens, Lauren Retzloff, Wenying Zh...> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2020 Apr 22
17 citations
Hemodynamic Impact of Oxygen Desaturation During Tracheal Intubation Among Critically Ill Children With Cyanotic and Noncyanotic Heart Disease.
Tanya Mokhateb-Rafii, Adnan Bakar, Sandeep Gangadharan, Eleanor Gradidge, David Tellez, Michael Ruppe, Sarah Tallent, Geoffrey L. Bird, Natasha Lavin, Anthony Lee, Nat...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2019 Jan 1
12 citations
Safety of tracheal intubation in the presence of cardiac disease in paediatric ICUs
Eleanor Gradidge, Adnan Bakar, David Tellez, Michael Ruppe, Sarah Tallent, Geoffrey L. Bird, Natasha Lavin, Anthony Lee, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Michelle Adu-Darko, Jesse B...> ;Cardiology in the Young. 2018 Apr 25
43 citations
Frequency of Desaturation and Association With Hemodynamic Adverse Events During Tracheal Intubations in PICUs.
Simon Li, Ting Chang Hsieh, Kyle J Rehder, Sholeen Nett, Pradip Kamat, Natalie Napolitano, David A. Turner, Michelle Adu-Darko, J. Dean Jarvis, Conrad Krawiec, Ashley ...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2018 Jan 1
10 citations
Effect of Location on Tracheal Intubation Safety in Cardiac Disease—Are Cardiac ICUs Safer?
Eleanor Gradidge, Adnan Bakar, David Tellez, Michael Ruppe, Sarah Tallent, Geoffrey L. Bird, Natasha Lavin, Anthony Lee, Michelle Adu-Darko, Jesse Bain, Katherine Biag...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017 Dec 1
60 citations
Relationship Between Adverse Tracheal Intubation Associated Events and PICU Outcomes.
Margaret M. Parker, Gabrielle Nuthall, Calvin A. Brown, Katherine Biagas, Natalie Napolitano, Lee A. Polikoff, Dennis W. Simon, Michael Miksa, Eleanor Gradidge, Jan Ha...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017 Apr 1
Development and Preliminary Testing of the Coordination Process Error Reporting Tool (CPERT), a Prospective Clinical Surveillance Mechanism for Teamwork Errors in the ...
Katherine E. Bates, Judy A. Shea, Geoffrey L. Bird, Cynthia Field, Deipanjan Nandi, Robert E. Shaddy, Joshua P. Metlay> ;Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016 Dec 1
19 citations
Family Presence During Pediatric Tracheal Intubations
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82 citations
Clinical epidemiology of extubation failure in the pediatric cardiac icu: A report from the pediatric cardiac critical care consortium
Sarah Tabbutt, Steven M. Schwartz, Geoffrey L. Bird, Jeffrey A. Alten, Lara S. Shekerdemian, Darren Klugman, Ravi R. Thiagarajan, J. William Gaynor, Jeffrey P. Jacobs,...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2015 Nov 1
12 citations
A tool to measure shared clinical understanding following handoffs to help evaluate handoff quality
Katherine E. Bates, Geoffrey L. Bird, Judy A. Shea, Michael Apkon, Robert E. Shaddy, Joshua P. Metlay> ;Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2014 Mar 1
31 citations
Results of elective repair at 6 months or younger in 277 patients with tetralogy of Fallot: a 14-year experience at a single center.
Roxanne E. Kirsch, Andrew C. Glatz, J. William Gaynor, Susan C. Nicolson, Thomas L. Spray, Gil Wernovsky, Geoffrey L. Bird> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014 Feb 1
27 citations
Change in regional (somatic) near-infrared spectroscopy is not a useful indictor of clinically detectable low cardiac output in children after surgery for congenital h...
Utpal Bhalala, Akira Nishisaki, Derrick McQueen, Geoffrey L. Bird, Wynne Morrison, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Meena Nathan, Joanne P. Starr> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2012 Sep 1
37 citations
Percutaneous thoracic duct embolization as a treatment for intrathoracic chyle leaks in infants.
Maxim Itkin, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Maryam Y. Naim, Geoffrey L. Bird, Marc S. Keller> ;Pediatrics. 2011 Jul 1
45 citations
Weight change in infants with a functionally univentricular heart: from surgical intervention to hospital discharge
Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Sharon Y. Irving, Bradley S. Marino, J. Felipe Garcia-Espana, Chitra Ravishankar, Geoffrey L. Bird, Virginia A. Stallings> ;Cardiology in the Young. 2011 Apr 1
7 citations
Successful support and separation from veno–venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in a three-month-old patient following bidirectional Glenn procedure
Liam P. Ryan, Lisa M. Montenegro, Geoffrey L. Bird, Peter J. Gruber> ;Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 2010 Oct 1
13 citations
Prediction of periventricular leukomalacia. Part II: Selection of hemodynamic features using computational intelligence
Biswanath Samanta, Geoffrey L. Bird, Marijn Kuijpers, Robert A. Zimmerman, Gail P. Jarvik, Gil Wernovsky, Robert R. Clancy, Daniel J. Licht, J. William Gaynor, C. Nataraj> ;Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2009 Jul 1
17 citations
Prediction of periventricular leukomalacia. Part I: Selection of hemodynamic features using logistic regression and decision tree algorithms
Biswanath Samanta, Geoffrey L. Bird, Marijn Kuijpers, Robert A. Zimmerman, Gail P. Jarvik, Gil Wernovsky, Robert R. Clancy, Daniel J. Licht, J. William Gaynor, C. Nataraj> ;Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2009 Jul 1
152 citations
Risk factors for interstage death after stage 1 reconstruction of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and variants.
David A. Hehir, Troy E. Dominguez, Jean A. Ballweg, Chitra Ravishankar, Bradley S. Marino, Geoffrey L. Bird, Susan C. Nicolson, Thomas L. Spray, J. William Gaynor, Sar...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008 Jul 1
29 citations
Postoperative course in the cardiac intensive care unit following the first stage of Norwood reconstruction.
Gil Wernovsky, Marijn Kuijpers, Maaike van Rossem, Bradley S. Marino, Chitra Ravishankar, Troy E. Dominguez, Rodolfo I. Godinez, Kathryn Dodds, Richard F. Ittenbach, S...> ;Cardiology in the Young. 2007 Dec 1
8 citations
Improving safety for children with cardiac disease.
Ravi R. Thiagarajan, Geoffrey L. Bird, Karen Harrington, John R. Charpie, Richard C. Ohye, James M. Steven, Michael L. Epstein, Peter C. Laussen> ;Cardiology in the Young. 2007 Sep 1
43 citations
A contemporary comparison of the effect of shunt type in hypoplastic left heart syndrome on the hemodynamics and outcome at stage 2 reconstruction
Jean A. Ballweg, Troy E. Dominguez, Chitra Ravishankar, Jacqueline Kreutzer, Bradley S. Marino, Geoffrey L. Bird, Peter J. Gruber, Gil Wernovsky, J. William Gaynor, Su...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007 Aug 1
43 citations
Diagnosis and management of the newborn with suspected congenital heart disease
Bradley S. Marino, Geoffrey L. Bird, Gil Wernovsky> ;Clinics in Perinatology. 2001 Mar 1
Chemokine levels in human liver homogenates: associations between GRO alpha and histopathological evidence of alcoholic hepatitis.
Maltby J, Wright S, Bird G, Sheron N> ;Hepatology. 1996-11-01
47 citations
Improvements in preventive care and communication for deaf patients: results of a novel primary health care program.
Theodore MacKinney, Donna Walters, Geoffrey L. Bird, Ann B. Nattinger> ;Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1995 Mar 1
Circulating and tissue levels of the neutrophil chemotaxin interleukin-8 are elevated in severe acute alcoholic hepatitis, and tissue levels correlate with neutrophil ...
Sheron N, Bird G, Koskinas J, Portmann B, Ceska M, Lindley I, Williams R> ;Hepatology. 1993-07-01
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Hospital Affiliations

Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania