LOCAL PHYSICIAN & NURSE
PUBLISHED IN PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOKS

IMPORTANT SCIENCE & KNOWLEDGE ORIGINATING AT DRISCOLL BEING SHARED WORLDWIDE

(Corpus Christi, TX) Knowledge garnered at Driscoll Children’s Hospital and its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is being shared with physicians, medical students, and other medical professionals from around the world. Pediatric Critical Care Specialist, Alexandre Rotta, MD, and Priscilla Joyal, Registered Nurse and ECMO Coordinator, both in the facility’s PICU, were invited to publish chapters in some of today’s most prestigious and relevant pediatric critical care teaching textbooks based on their work in Driscoll’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Known as "definitive chapters," the chapters are a collection of the most current, cutting-edge knowledge in the field of pediatric critical care. They guide how medical professionals are taught, and share state-of-the-art information with critical care physicians worldwide. These publishings mark the presence of Dr. Rotta as an author in two of the three major textbooks in pediatric critical care read worldwide, a dream of many physicians.

“We are extremely proud of Dr. Rotta and Ms. Joyal for their comittment to publishing and sharing the latest and greatest information in pediatric critical care,” says Steve Woerner, President and C.E.O of Dirscoll. “It is a major honor to have been invited and published in these texts that have international impact.”

Recent publishings included:

• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Basic Science and Clinical Evidence
  By D Wheeler, HR Wong, and TH Shanley (editors)
  Alexandre Rotta, M.D., authored a chapter entitled “Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiencies.”
• Pediatric Critical Care (3rd Edition)
  By BP Fuhrman and JJ Zimmerman (editors)
  Alexandre Rotta, M.D., authored two chapters entitled “Status Asthmaticus” and “Ventilator Induced Lung Injury.”
• Hemodynamic Support
  Edited by pre-eminent Brazilian intensivists AP Barbosa, C Johnston C and WB Carvalho
  Priscilla Joyal, RN, ECMO Coordinator, and Alexandre Rotta, M.D., co-authored a chapter entitled “Extracorporeal Hemodynamic Support.”

Driscoll’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides the most critically ill children with the highest level of medical care. Patients include those with respiratory failure, serious infections, heart defects, or are involved in a serious trauma, near-drowning, or following major surgery.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

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