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Job Title Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Job Title Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 5

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5164 Phone

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Medical School:	1980 Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (J.I.P.M.E.R.), Pondicherry, India
Residency:	1984 Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
Fellowship:	1987 University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Pediatric Section Award for the best Pediatric abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1990
SCCM Annual Scientific Award presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Antonio, 1998
Pediatric Section Award for the best Pediatric abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, 2000

Kim IK, Phrampus E, Venkataraman S, Pitetti R, Saville A, Corcoran T, Gracely E, Funt N, Thompson A. Helium/oxygen-driven albuterol nebulization in the treatment of children with moderate to severe asthma exacerbations: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2005 Nov;116(5):1127-33.
Santhanam I, Sangareddi S, Venkataraman S, Kissoon N, Thiruvengadamudayan V, Kasthuri RK. A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study of Two Fluid Regimens in the Initial Man-agement of Septic Shock in the Emergency Department. Pediatric Emergency Care:Volume 24:2008; 647-655.
Newth CJ, Venkataraman S, Willson DF, Meert KL, Harrison R, Dean JM, Pollack M, Zimmer-man J, Anand KJ, Carcillo JA, Nicholson CE; Eunice Shriver Kennedy National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. Weaning and extubation readiness in pediatric patients. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009 Jan;10(1):1-11.

View Dr. Venkataraman's full list of publications from PubMed.

Developing extubation criteria in intubated infants and children
Measurement of work of breathing and oxygen cost of breathing and its impact on weaning from mechanical ventilation in infants and children
Developing a transport triage tool
Inhaled nitric oxide in primary pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
Inhaled nitric oxide in adult respiratory distress syndrome
Evaluation of inhaled nitric oxide before cardiac transplantation
Oxidant stress in critically ill patients as evaluated by oxidants, antioxidants, and inflammatory cytokines
Evaluation of the use of hypoxic gas mixtures in hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Unsuspected fungal infections in the intensive care unit
Partitioning pulmonary vascular resistance in congenital and acquired heart disease in infants and children
Evaluation of viscoelastic resistance in the lungs in critically ill mechanically ventilated infants and children
Nutrition in the critically ill pediatric patient
Effect of different modes of weaning on work of breathing and extubation success
Effect of prone positioning in pediatric ARDS
Effect of critical illness on hemoglobin dissociation curve and 2,3-dpg levels