Professor, Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Curtis N. Sessler, MD
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Curtis Sessler practices Internal Medicine. He graduated from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FCCM)". Curtis Sessler is also a published MD. He has 90 paper published. The most recent paper is: Mechanical ventilation of patients with acute lung injury. Curtis Sessler accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Predictors of agitation in critically ill adults.
- Agitation onset, frequency, and associated temporal factors in critically ill adults.
- Training Internists to Meet Critical Care Needs in the United States: A Consensus Statement from the Critical Care Societies Collaborative (CCSC)*
- Responses to noxious stimuli in sedated mechanically ventilated adults.
- Facial Expression as an Indicator of Pain in Critically Ill Intubated Adults During Endotracheal Suctioning.
- Evaluating and Monitoring Sedation, Arousal, and Agitation in the ICU.
- Optimizing safe, comfortable ICU care through multi-professional quality improvement: just DO it.
- Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit.
- Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit: Executive summary.
- Protocolized and target-based sedation and analgesia in the ICU.
- Getting to the CORE of Weaning?
- Early, single chlorhexidine application reduces ventilator-associated Pneumonia in trauma patients.
- Alcohol-use disorders in the critically ill patient.
- Severe hypoxemic Respiratory failure: part 2--nonventilatory strategies.
- Severe hypoxemic Respiratory failure: part 1--ventilatory strategies.
- Are there benefits or harm from pressure targeting during Lung-protective ventilation?
- Are corticosteroids useful in late-stage acute Respiratory distress syndrome?
- Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony: clinical significance and implications for practice.
- Chlorhexidine, toothbrushing, and preventing ventilator-associated Pneumonia in critically ill adults.
- Multisociety task force recommendations of competencies in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
- Structured approaches to pain management in the ICU.
- Pain management within the palliative and end-of-life care experience in the ICU.
- Pain management principles in the critically ill.
- Evaluation of pain in ICU patients.
- Progress toward eliminating inadequately managed pain in the ICU through interdisciplinary care.
- Autonomic nervous System function and depth of sedation in adults receiving mechanical ventilation.
- Patient-focused sedation and analgesia in the ICU.
- A controlled trial of universal gloving versus contact precautions for preventing the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms.
- Oral health status and development of ventilator-associated Pneumonia: a descriptive study.
- Infection control and the prevention of nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit.
- A comprehensive review of disseminated Salmonella arizona infection with an illustrative case presentation.
- The Critical Care Family Assistance Program: caring for those who care.
- Effect of backrest elevation on the development of ventilator-associated Pneumonia.
- Sedation, analgesia, and neuromuscular blockade for high-frequency oscillatory ventilation.
- Actigraphy in the critically ill: correlation with activity, agitation, and sedation.
- Sedation scales in the ICU.
- Management of severe sepsis and septic shock.
- Train-of-four to monitor neuromuscular blockade?
- Endotracheal tube narrowing during mechanical ventilation.
- Wake up and breathe.
- The critical care crisis in the United States: a report from the profession.
- Duration of action of a single, early oral application of chlorhexidine on oral microbial flora in mechanically ventilated patients: a pilot study.
- Collaborative practice: development, implementation, and evaluation of a weaning protocol for patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
- Monitoring sedation status over time in ICU patients: reliability and validity of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS).
- Steroids for septic shock: back from the dead? (Con).
- The Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale: validity and reliability in adult intensive care unit patients.
- New concepts in sepsis.
- Patient ventilator asynchrony in critically ill adults: Frequency and types.
- Intensive care management of life-threatening avian Influenza A (H5N1).
- Analgesia and sedation in the intensive care unit: an overview of the issues.
- Evaluating and monitoring analgesia and sedation in the intensive care unit.
- Multisociety Task Force for Critical Care Research: key issues and recommendations.
- Multisociety task force for critical care research: key issues and recommendations: executive summary.
- Effect of timing of dialysis on mortality in critically ill, septic patients with acute renal Failure.
- Comfort and distress in the ICU: scope of the problem.
- Multidisciplinary management of sedation and analgesia in critical care.
- Mechanical ventilation of patients with acute Lung injury.
- Endotracheal tube narrowing after closed-System suctioning: prevalence and risk factors.
- Handwashing compliance by health care workers: The impact of introducing an accessible, alcohol-based hand antiseptic.
- Continuous measurement of backrest elevation in critical care: a research strategy.
- Alcohol-based handwashing agent improves hand washing.
- Top ten list in sepsis.
- Protocol-directed weaning: a process of continuous performance improvement.
- In situ Pulmonary vascular perfusion for improved recovery of Pulmonary intravascular macrophages.
- Platelet-activating factor in porcine Pseudomonas acute Lung injury.
- Theophylline toxicity: clinical features of 116 consecutive cases.
- Cardiac arrhythmias during theophylline toxicity. A prospective continuous electrocardiographic study.
- An unusual cause of Pneumothorax during percutaneous pleural biopsy.
- Transient Pulmonary perfusion scintigraphic abnormalities in Pulmonary air embolism.
- Worsening oxygenation in the mechanically ventilated patient. Causes, mechanisms, and early detection.
- Effects of platelet-activating factor antagonist SRI 63-441 on endotoxemia in sheep.
- Protamine sulfate causes Pulmonary hypertension and edema in isolated rat lungs.
- Central venous cannulation done by house officers in the intensive care unit: a prospective study.
- Poor tolerance of oral activated charcoal with theophylline overdose.
- Arterial occlusion after femoral artery cannulation.
- Comparison of 4% lidocaine/0.5% phenylephrine with 5% cocaine: which dilates the nasal passage better?
- Treatment of theophylline toxicity with oral activated charcoal.
- Management of theophylline toxicity.
- Lyme Disease in North Carolina.
- Circulating ICAM-1 is increased in septic shock.
- Increased serum cytokines and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in fulminant Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- Central venous catheter infections: concepts and controversies.
- Unplanned extubation. Clinical predictors for reintubation.
- Current concepts of sepsis and acute Lung injury.
- Validation of a cognitive test for delirium in medical ICU patients.
- Unplanned extubations: making progress using CQI.
- Soluble E-selectin levels in sepsis and critical illness. Correlation with infection and hemodynamic dysfunction.
- Abbreviated cognitive test for delirium.
- [Efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral program with pharmacological support to achieve smoking cessation].
Schools
University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine
Bowman Gray School Of Med
Med College Va
Procedures Preformed
- Bronchoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Ventilation Management
Conditions Treated
- Acidosis
- Alkalosis
- Asthma
- Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonology
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FCCM)
Education
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1962583500 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SESSLER |
| First Name Of The Provider | CURTIS |
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