
Dr. Rakesh D Mistry M.D.
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
34th & Civic Center Blvd. Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Rakesh Mistry is a pediatric emergency medicine physician practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Mistry specializes in providing care for critically ill and injured children. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians possess a vast amount of knowledge in areas such as neonatology, critical care and forensic pediatrics. Children involved in automobile accidents, child abuse or near-drowning episodes are frequent cases treated by pediatric emergency medicine physicians.
Education and Training
Umdnj-Robt W Johnson Med Sch- New Brunswick Nj 1998
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Outcomes of children referred to an emergency department by an after-hours call center.
- Children referred to an emergency department by an after-hours call center: complaint-specific analysis.
- A boy with tremor, diaphoresis, and altered behavior.
- Late-presenting congenital diaphragmatic hernia mimicking bronchiolitis.
- Picture of the month--quiz case. Parsonage-Turner Syndrome.
- CSF opening pressure in children with optic nerve head edema.
- Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency presenting as hepatitis.
- Cholelithiasis in a toddler with sickle cell disease.
- Management of pediatric skin abscesses in pediatric, general academic and community emergency departments.
- The utility of early lactate testing in undifferentiated pediatric systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
- Comparison of 2-view abdominal radiographs with ultrasound in children with suspected intussusception.
- Comparison of clinicians to radiologists in assessment of abdominal radiographs for suspected intussusception.
- Pediatric primary care provider practices, knowledge, and attitudes of human immunodeficiency virus screening among adolescents.
- Skin and soft tissue infections.
- Intra-articular lidocaine for reduction of shoulder dislocation.
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