Dr. Dianne L Atkins MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Dianne Atkins is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Atkins specializes in caring for fetuses, infants, children and adolescents with cardiovascular or cardiac abnormalities. Practiced in both inpatient and outpatient settings, the scope of conditions cared for by pediatric cardiologists is large and includes congenital heart defects, heart muscle disorders, rhythm disturbances and hypertension.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1977
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- American Heart Association guidelines for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease beginning in childhood.
- American Heart Association guidelines for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease beginning in childhood.
- Automated external defibrillators: safety and efficacy in children and adolescents.
- Attenuated pediatric electrode pads for automated external defibrillator use in children.
- Energy doses for treatment of out-of-hospital pediatric ventricular fibrillation.
- Awareness of guidelines for use of automated external defibrillators in children within emergency medical services.
- Tachyarrhythmias and defibrillation.
- Community public access sites: compliance with American Heart Association recommendations.
- Public access defibrillation: where does it work?
- Realistic expectations for public access defibrillation programs.
- Defibrillation in children.
- Improving outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in young children and adolescents.
- Self-instructional CPR training for parents of high risk infants.
- Relationship between chest compression rates and outcomes from cardiac arrest.
- Bystander CPR: how to best increase the numbers.
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