Kevin Charles O'Brien MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Director of Sedation Services

2801 Atlantic AveLong Beach, CA 90806
Phone+1 562-933-8743
Fax+1 562-933-8764

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Summary

I am a board certified Pediatric Critical Care physician who has been in practice for 13 years. I have also been a Medical Director of a new PICU and currently provide Director leadership of a Pediatric Sedation Service.
My current practice is in an urban PICU associated with large healthcare organization with medical and surgical patients. My training did involve Cardiac Intensive care in a busy Congenital Cardiac Surgery program.

Education & Training

Children's Hospital Los AngelesFellowship, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2004 - 2007
Children's Hospital Los AngelesResidency, Pediatrics, 2001 - 2004
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical CenterClass of 2001
DePaul UniversityBS, Biology, 1989 - 1993

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2003 - 2028
NV State Medical License 2022 - 2027
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Carmel Scholar Award California Thoracic Society, Annual Clinical Conference & Members’ Meeting, 2007

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

Dexmedetomidine is effective for sedation for outpatient electroencephalography
Babbitt CJ, Lubens P, Wong E, O’Brien K, Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Journal, 1/1/2015
Indications and Effects of Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children
Oliver Karam, Pierre Demaret, Alison Shefler, Stéphane Leteurtre, Philip C. Spinella, Simon J. Stanworth, and Marisa Tucci, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/2015
Severe Iron Toxicity: Early Aggressive Therapy Prevents Liver Transplantation
O’Brien KC, Festekjian A, Godshall AJ, Rangan C, Newth CJL, Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/2005

Abstracts/Posters

Alteplase Use for Pulmonary Artery Thrombus in a Child on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
O’Brien KC, California Thoracic Society 2007 Annual Clinical Conference and Members’ Meeting, Carmel, California, 1/1/2007
Epinephrine Delivery Using a Humidified High Flow Oxygen Delivery System
O’Brien KC, American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, San Francisco, California, 1/1/2007
Early Outcomes in Neonates with Heterotaxy Syndrome and Anomalous Pulmonary Veins
Khwaja S, O’Brien KC, Moromisato DY, Wells WJ, Starnes VA, American Academy of Pediatrics Abstracts, 1/1/2005

Lectures

Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Pediatric Endocrinologic Emergency
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. Pomona Valley, California - 1/1/2010
Basics of CXR Interpretation
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California - 1/1/2008
Post-Op Cardiac ICU Care
Miller Children’s Hospital. Long Beach, California - 1/1/2008

Other

Unusual Case of Upper GI Obstruction
Question of the Month, vPICU Education Website
www.vpicu.org
1/1/2006
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Question of the Month, vPICU Education Website
www.vpicu.org
1/1/2005