Dr. John T Berger MD
Pediatrician | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
111 Michigan Ave NW Washington DC, 20010Rating
5/5
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Dr. John Berger is a pediatrician practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Berger is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Berger diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Berger can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transcutaneous implantation of an internal cardioverter defibrillator in a small infant with recurrent myocardial ischemia and cardiac arrest simulating sudden infant death syndrome.
- Increases in serum levels of troponin I are associated with cardiac dysfunction and disease severity in pediatric patients with septic shock.
- Strategic learning: linking resident training to outcomes for patients.
- Dilated cardiomyopathy following right ventricular pacing for AV block in young patients: resolution after upgrading to biventricular pacing systems.
- Two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging detects impaired myocardial performance in children with septic shock, not recognized by conventional echocardiography.
- Echocardiography as a hemodynamic monitor in critically ill children.
- Patient handoffs: Delivering content efficiently and effectively is not enough.
- Specialized delivery room planning for fetuses with critical congenital heart disease.
- The use of near-infrared spectroscopy during an extubation readiness trial as a predictor of extubation outcome.
- Implementation of an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation simulation program reduces extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation times in real patients.
- Unplanned admissions to a pediatric cardiac critical care unit: a review of 2 years' experience.
- Use of Pulmonary Hypertension Medications in Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia and Multiple Aortopulmonary Collaterals.
- The Ventilator Is a Vasoactive.
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society 2014 Consensus Statement: Pharmacotherapies in Cardiac Critical Care Antihypertensives.
- Postoperative Abdominal NIRS Values Predict Low Cardiac Output Syndrome in Neonates.
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