Dr. Norman C Christopher M.D.
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
1 Perkins Sq Akron OH, 44308About
Dr. Norman Christopher is a pediatric emergency medicine physician practicing in Akron, OH. Dr. Christopher 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
U of Tx Med Sch At Houston, Houston Tx 1985
Texas A&M University, TX 1985
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Parental knowledge and children's use of bicycle helmets.
- The educational experience of pediatric emergency medicine fellows in the use and application of procedural sedation/analgesia.
- Spontaneous reduction of a small bowel intussusception in a patient with Henoch Schonlein purpura.
- Effect of a standardized pharyngitis treatment protocol on use of antibiotics in a pediatric emergency department.
- Initial urinary epinephrine and cortisol levels predict acute PTSD symptoms in child trauma victims.
- A thyroglossal duct cyst causing apnea and cyanosis in a neonate.
- Paramedic initiated non-transport of pediatric patients.
- Screening for adolescent depression in a pediatric emergency department.
- Evaluation of nonpharmacologic methods of pain and anxiety management for laceration repair in the pediatric emergency department.
- Brief report: the impact of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and child gender on risk for persistent posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in child trauma victims.
- Parental posttraumatic stress symptoms as a moderator of child's acute biological response and subsequent posttraumatic stress symptoms in pediatric injury patients.
- Initial physiological responses and perceived hyperarousal predict subsequent emotional numbing in pediatric injury patients.
- Ethyl vinyl chloride vapocoolant spray fails to decrease pain associated with intravenous cannulation in children.
- Emergency medical service and in-hospital vital signs as predictors of subsequent PTSD symptom severity in pediatric injury patients.
- A randomized clinical trial of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate versus intravenous morphine sulfate for initial control of pain in children with extremity injuries.
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1 PERKINS SQUARE AKRON OH 44308