Publications

Publications obtained using Different iterations of DR^T

Pediatric neurology

Nigrovic LE, Thompson AD, Fine AM, Kimia AA Clinical Predictors of Lyme Disease Among Children With a Peripheral Facial Palsy at an Emergency Department in a Lyme Disease-Endemic Area Pediatrics 2008; 122: e1080-e1085.

Kimia A, Capraro A, Johnston P, Hummel D Harper M. Utility of lumbar puncture for first simple febrile seizure among children 6 to 18 months of age. Pediatrics. 2009 Jan;123(1):6-12.

Conrad H, Kimia A, Johnston P, Shannon M. Emergency Department Management of Migraine Headache in Children after Publication of National Practice Guidelines. IJEM Vol. 9, No. 3 Dec. 2009

Kimia A, Pearl Ben-Joseph E, Rudloe TF, Capraro A, Sarco D, Hummel D, Johnston P, Harper MB. Yield of lumbar puncture among children presenting with their first complex febrile seizure Pediatrics 2010 Jul;126(1):62-9.

AM Fine, JS Brownstein, LE Nigrovic, AA Kimia, KL Olson, AD Thompson, KD Mandl. Integrating Spatial Epidemiology into a Decision Model for Evaluation of Facial Palsy in Children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011 Jan;165(1):61-7

Rogers EA, Kimia A, Masden J, Nigrovic LE, Neuman MI. Predictors of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection among children presenting to the emergency department for assessment of shunt malfunction Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 May;28(5):405-9

Kimia A, Pearl Ben-Joseph E, Capraro AJ, Hummel D, Sarco D, Prabhu S, Harper MB. Yield of Emergent neuro-diagnostic among children presenting with complex febrile seizures - Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Apr;28(4):316-21

Kara B Johnson, BA; Kenneth A Michelson, MD; Todd W Lyons, MD; Lise E Nigrovic, MD, MPH; Assaf Landschaft, BSc; Tobias Loddenkemper, MD, MPH; Amir A Kimia, MD Pediatric Status Epilepticus: How Common is Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in the Absence of Infection? Seizure. 2014 Apr 26. pii: S1059-1311(14)00097-1. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2014.03.015

Boyle, Tehnaz; Paldino, Michael; Kimia, Amir; Fitz, Brianna; Madsen, Joseph; Monuteaux, Michael; Nigrovic, Lise Comparison of rapid MRI to CT for ventricular shunt malfunction. Pediatrics. 2014 Jul;134(1):e47-54. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3739. Epub 2014 Jun 2.

Aprahamian N, Harper MB, Prabhu SP, Monuteaux MC, Sadiq Z, Torres A, Kimia AA. Pediatric first time non-febrile seizure with focal manifestations: Is emergent imaging indicated? Seizure. 2014 Jun 8. pii: S1059-1311(14)00167-8. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2014.06.003

Rudloe T, Prabhu SP, Gorman, M, Nigrovic LE, Harper MB, Landschaft A. Kimia AA. The yield of neuroimaging in children presenting to the emergency department with acute ataxia in the postvaricella vaccine era. J Child Neurol. 2014 Dec 22

Amir A. Kimia, Richard G. Bachur, Alcy Torres, and Marvin B. Harper Febrile seizures: emergency medicine perspective J Child Neurol. 2014 Dec 22

Kenneth A. Michelson, Todd Lyons, Kara Johnson, Lise E. Nigrovic, , Marvin B. Harper, Amir A. Kimia Utility of Lumbar Puncture in Children Presenting With Status Epilepticus. Ped emerg Care in press Chellamani Harini, Elanagan Nagarajan, Amir A Kimia, Rachel Marin de Carvalho, Sookee An, Ann M, Bergin, Masanori Takeoka, Phillip L. Pearl, Tobias Loddenkemper Utility of initial EEG in First Complex Febrile Seizure. Epilepsy Behav. 2015 Nov;52(Pt A):200-4.

Caffarelli M, Kimia AA, Torres A Title: Acute Ataxia in Children: A Review of the Diagnostic Work up in the Emergency Department Pediatric Neurology in press Lyons TW, Johnson KB, Michelson KA, Nigrovic LE, Loddenkemper T, Prabhu SP, Kimia AA Yield of emergent neuroimaging in children with new-onset seizure and status epilepticus Seizure. 2015 Dec 25;35:4-10.

Injury prevention

Kimia A, Waltzman M, Shannon M, Johnston P, Hummel D, Pearl Ben-Joseph E, Lee L Glass table injuries in children. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009 Mar;25(3):145-9.

Aprahamian N, Lee L, Shannon M, Capraro A, Johnston P, Hummel D, Kimia A. Glass thermometer injuries: it is not just about the mercury. Pediatr Emerg Care Oct;25(10):645-7

Kimia A, Lee L, Shannon M, Capraro A, Mays D, Johnston P, Hummel D, Shuman M Holiday ornament related injuries in children. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009 Dec;25(12):819-22

Agbo C, Lee L, Chiang V, Landschaft A, Kimia T, Monuteax MC, Kimia AA, Magnet related injury rates in children: a single hospital experience. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2013 Jul:57(1)14-7

Surgical conditions and trauma

Hennelly K, Kimia A, Lee L, Joes D, Porter S. The burden of morbidity from penetrating palatal trauma in children Pediatrics, 2010 Dec;126(6):e1578-84.

Rudloe TF, Schutzman SS, Lee L, Kimia A No Longer a "Nursemaid's" Elbow: Mechanisms, Caregivers, and Prevention Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Aug;28(8):771-4

Elisabeth M Lessenich, Amir A Kimia, Katherine Mandeville,Joyce Li, Assaf Landschaft, Andy Tsai, Richard G Bachur, MD The Frequency of Post-Reduction Interventions after Successful Enema Reduction of Intussusception Acad Emerg Med. 2015 Sep;22(9):1042-7.

Kate Dorney Amir Kimia, Megan Hannon, Kara Hennelly, William P. Meehan III, Mark Proctor, David P. Mooney, Michael Glotzbecker, and Rebekah Mannix Outcomes of pediatric patients with persistent midline cervical spine tenderness after trauma J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Nov;79(5):822-7

Miller AF, Elman DM, Aronson PL, Kimia AA, Neuman MI. Epidemiology and Predictors of Orbital Fractures in Children. Pediatric Emergency Care, in press.

Miller KA, Kimia A, Monuteaux MC, Nagler J. O Factors Associated with Misplaced Endotracheal Tubes During Intubation in Pediatric Patients. J Emerg Med. 2016 May 25. Pediatric infectious diseases

Rudloe TF, Harper MB, Prabhu SP, Rahbar RDMD, VanderVeen D, Kimia AA. Acute Periorbital Infections: Who Needs Emergent Imaging? Pediatrics 2010 Apr;125(4):e719-26

Nigrovic, LE Kimia AA, Shah SS, Neuman MI, Realtionship between cerebrospinal fluid glucose and serum glucose NEJM 2012 FEB9; 366(6) 576-8

DeanehanJ, Kimia AA, Sharman JT Milewski MD, Talusan PG, Smith BG, Nigrovic LE Children with monoarthritis in a Lyme endemic area: Who needs arthrocenthesis? Pediatrics, 2013 Mar;131(3):e695-701

Deanehan JK, Nigrovic PA, Milewski MD, Tan Tanny SP, Kimia AA, Smith BG, Nibrivic LE. Synovial fluid fidnings in children with knee monoarthritis in Lyme endemic areas. Pediatr Emerg Care, 2014 Jan;30(1):16-9. doi: 10.1097/PEC. 28.

Niloufar Paydar-Darian, Amir A. Kimia, Paul M. Lantos, Andrew M. Fine, Caroline D. Gordon, Catherine R. Gordon, Assaf Landschaft, and Lise E. Nigrovic Diagnostic Lumbar Puncture among Children with Facial Palsy in a Lyme Disease Endemic Area PIDJ in press

Pingree E, Kimia, AA, Nigrovic LE. The impact of traumatic lumbar puncture on hospitalization rate for febrile infants 28 to 60 days of age. Acad Emerg Med. 2015 Feb;22(2):240-3.

Methodology, surveillance and quality improvement

Kimia AA, Savova, GA Landschaft A. Harper MB. An Introduction to Natural Language Processing: How you can get more from those electronic notes you are generating. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015 Jul;31(7):536-41

Kimia A, Brownstein JS, Olson KL, Zak V, Bourgeois FT, Mandl KD. Lumbar Puncture Ordering and Results in the Pediatric Population: A Promising Data Source for Surveillance Systems. Acad Emerg Med.2006;13(7):767-773.

Kimia AA, Johnston P, Capraro AJ, Harper MB. Occurrence of Metabolic Acidosis in Pediatric ED Patients as a Data Source for Disease Surveillance Systems Pedaitr emerg care 2010 Oct;26(10):733-8

Capraro AJ, Stack AM, Harper MB, Kimia A. Detecting unapproved abbreviations in the electronic medical record Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012 Apr;38(4):178-83.

Presentations at national meetings

Computer Assisted Tool for ED Diagnosis Accuracy. Assaf Landschaft, Anne M Stack, Ayobami Akenroye, Catherine Perron, Marvin Harper, and Amir Kimia, American Academy of Pediatrics San Diego 2014