Dr. Susan C Nicolson M.D.
Pediatrician | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
34th Street & Civic Center Blvd Suite 9329 Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Susan Nicolson is a pediatrician practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Nicolson is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Nicolson 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. Nicolson can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1976
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Arterial and venous contributions to near-infrared cerebral oximetry.
- Cerebral oxygen saturation before congenital heart surgery.
- Impact of inspired gas mixtures on preoperative infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome during controlled ventilation.
- Anesthesia for adult patients with congenital heart disease undergoing noncardiac surgery.
- Effects of inspired hypoxic and hypercapnic gas mixtures on cerebral oxygen saturation in neonates with univentricular heart defects.
- Management of a difficult airway in a patient with Hurler-Scheie syndrome during cardiac surgery.
- Kinetics of cerebral deoxygenation during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in neonates.
- A comparison of on-site and off-site patent ductus arteriosus ligation in premature infants.
- Should children drink before discharge from day surgery?
- Proponents of liberalized fasting guidelines.
- Shortened preanesthetic fasting interval in pediatric cardiac surgical patients.
- Surrogate markers for neurological outcome in children after deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.
- Novel use of dexmedetomidine in a patient with pulmonary hypertension.
- A dose-response study of dexmedetomidine administered as the primary sedative in infants following open heart surgery.
- Challenges at the Bedside With ECMO and VAD.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
Treatments
- Pulmonary Hypertension
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1981
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 1981
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