Director, Division of Critical Care Medicine

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Dr. Raszynski obtained his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his pediatric residency training at Children’s Hospital, Buffalo, New York and at Harbor General-UCLA Hospital, Torrance, California. Dr. Raszynski fulfilled his pediatric critical care fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital, Denver. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics with subspecialty certification in pediatric critical care. He is a member of many professional societies, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics (Critical Care and Transport Sections). He serves on several hospital committees.

Dr. Raszynski has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Raszynski has published many medical articles and has lectured on numerous topics dealing with pediatric critical care medicine. His areas of research interest include novel methods of mechanical ventilation. Dr. Raszynski has been has been appointed as a clinical professor of Pediatrics at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University.


Publications

Totapally, A., Martinez, P., Raszynski, A., et al (2020). Do Racial/Ethnic and Economic Factors Affect the Rate of Complicated Appendicitis in Children? . Surgery research and practice, 2020(), 3268567. View in Pubmed

Totapally, B.R., Raszynski, A., Khan D., Amjad, I., Biehler, J. (2019). Extremity Arterial Thromboses in Hospitalized Children: A National Database Analysis of Prevalence and Therapeutic Interventions. Pediatric critical care medicine, 20(3), e154-e159. View in Pubmed

Kamal Sharma, K., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B. R. (2019). The impact of body mass index on resource utilization and outcomes of children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. SAGE Open Medicine, 7(), . View in Pubmed

Chegondi, M., Francis, T., Lin, W.C., Naqvi, S., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2018). Effects of Closed Endotracheal Suctioning on Systemic and Cerebral Oxygenation and Hemodynamics in Children. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 19(1), e23-e30. View in Pubmed

Chegondi, M., Sasaki, J., Naqvi, S., Lin, W,C., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2018). Heart Rate Variability in Children Following Drowning Injury. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 22(1), 53-55. View in Pubmed

Totapally, A., Leoncio, M., Beltramo, F., Meyer, K., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2017). Epidemiology and outcomes of children with accidental hypothermia: A propensity-matched study. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 82(2), 362-367. View in Pubmed

Chegondi, M., Sasaki, J., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2016). Hemoglobin Threshold for Blood Transfusion in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, 43(4), 297-301. View in Pubmed

Patten, W., Naqvi, S.Z., Raszynski. A., Totapally. B.R. (2015). Complications during the management of pediatric refractory status epilepticus with benzodiazepine and pentobarbital infusions. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 19(5), 275-277. View in Pubmed

Sasaki, J., Chegondi, M., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R.. (2014). Outcome of Children With Acute Encephalitis and Refractory Status Epilepticus. Journal of Child Neurology, 29(12), 1638-1644. View in Pubmed

Sasaki, J., Khalil, P.A., Chegondi, M., Raszynski, A., Meyer, K.G., Totapally, B.R. (2014). Coral snake bites and envenomation in children: a case series. Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 30(4), 262-265. View in Pubmed

Totapally, B.R., Machado, J., Lee, H., Paredes, A., Raszynski, A. (2013). Acute kidney injury during vancomycin therapy in critically ill children . Pharmacotherapy, 33(6), 598-602. View in Pubmed

Kimura, D., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2012). Admission and treatment factors associated with the duration of acidosis in children with diabetic ketoacidosis. Pediatric Emergency Care, 28(12), 1302-1306. View in Pubmed

Skaletzky, S.M., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2012). Validation of a modified pediatric early warning system score: a retrospective case-control study. Clinical Pediatrics, 51(5), 431-435. View in Pubmed

Norozian, F.M., Leoncio, M., Torbati, D., Meyer, K., Raszynski, A., Totapally, B.R. (2011). Therapeutic hypercapnia enhances inflammatory response to endotoxemia in the rat lung. Critical Care Medicine, 39(6), 1400-1406. View in Pubmed

MacCarrick, M.J., Torbati, D., Kimura, D., Raszynski, A., Zeng, W., Totapally, B.R. (2010). Does hypercapnia ameliorate hyperoxia-induced lung injury in neonatal rats?. Lung, 188(3), 235-240. View in Pubmed

Valcourt, K., Norozian, F., Lee, H., Raszynski, A., Torbati, D., Totapally, B. R. (2009). Drug use density in critically ill children and newborns: analysis of various methodologies. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 10(4), 495-499. View in Pubmed

Kimura, D., Totapally, B. R., Raszynski, A., Ramachandran, C., Torbati, D. (2008). The effects of CO2 on cytokine concentrations in endotoxin-stimulated human whole blood. Critical Care Medicine, 36(10), 2823-2827. View in Pubmed

Torbati, D., Totapally, B. R., Raszynski, A., Osborne, J., Zyl, L., Kalomiris, S., Wolfsdorf, J. (2008). Age and sex differences in brain gene expression in neonatal rats. Neuropediatrics, 39(4), 219-225. View in Pubmed

Meyappan, R.T., Raszynski, A., Bohorquez, J., et al (2007). Carbon dioxide clearance in rabbits during expiratory phase intratracheal pulmonary ventilation. ASAIO journal , 53(2), 163-167. View in Pubmed

Fakioglu, H., Totapally, B.R., Torbati, D., Raszynski, A., Sussmane, J.B., Wolfsdorf, J. (2005). Hypoxic respiratory failure in term newborns: clinical indicators for inhaled nitric oxide and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy. Journal of Critical Care, 20(288-293), 163-167. View in Pubmed

Olarte, J.L., Gelvez, J., Fakioglu, H., Torbati, D., Frazier, K.S., Totapally, B.R., Raszynski, A. (2003). Tracheobronchial injury during intratracheal pulmonary ventilation in rabbits. Critical Care Medicine, 31(3), 913-923. View in Pubmed

Bolivar, J., Hultquist, K., Raszynski, A., Torbati, D., Sherry, N., Sussmane, J.B., Wolfsdorf, J. (2001). Intratracheal pulmonary ventilation versus conventional mechanical ventilation: continuous carinal pressure monitoring at low and high flows and frequencies. ASAIO journal , 47(3), 215-219. View in Pubmed

Torbati, D., Ramirez, J., …, Raszynsky, A., et al (1999). Experimental critical care in rats: gender differences in anesthesia, ventilation, and gas exchange . Critical care medicine, 27(9), 1878-1884. View in Pubmed


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