Associate Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Andrea Cruz is an expert in the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She studied medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Andrea Cruz is a published doctor as well. She has 67 publications published. The latest was: Factors Associated With Poor Outcome in Childhood Swimming Pool Submersions.

Publications

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• How Long Does it Take to Diagnose Appendicitis? Time Point Process Mapping in the Emergency Department.
• Childhood tuberculosis in the United States: shifting the focus to prevention.
• Impact of antibiotic pretreatment on bone biopsy yield for children with acute hematogenous osteomyelitis.
• Ebola Knowledge and Attitudes Among Pediatric Providers Before the First Diagnosed Case in the United States.
• Impact of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT)-based triage process in the paediatric emergency department of a Guatemalan public hospital.
• Pneumatosis Intestinalis in a Corticosteroid-Dependent Child.
• Evaluation of health-care providers' knowledge of childhood tuberculosis in Lima, Peru.
• Safety and completion of a 4-month course of rifampicin for latent tuberculous infection in children.
• Making Disaster Care Count: Consensus Formulation of Measures of Effectiveness for Natural Disaster Acute Phase Medical Response.
• Trends in hospitalizations and resource utilization for pediatric pertussis.
• What's in a number? Accurate estimates of childhood tuberculosis.
• Neurologic deterioration in a child undergoing treatment for tuberculosis meningitis.
• Management of pediatric snake bites: are we doing too much?
• Tuberculosis Exposure, Infection, and Disease among Children with Medical Comorbidities.
• The global nature of childhood tuberculosis.
• Risk factors for complications in hospitalized young infants presenting with uncomplicated pertussis.
• Indeterminate QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube assay results in children: possible association with procedural specimen collection.
• Tuberculosis in pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplantation patients.
• Disseminated Tuberculosis in Two Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Receiving Infliximab.
• Relationship Between Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) Size and Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) Result: When Should Clinicians Obtain IGRAs in Children With Positive TSTs?
• Old and new approaches to diagnosing and treating latent tuberculosis in children in low-incidence countries.
• Factors Associated With High Resource Utilization in Pediatric Skin and Soft Tissue Infection Hospitalizations.
• Adolescents with tuberculosis: a review of 145 cases.
• At the intersection of toxicology, psychiatry, and genetics: a diagnosis of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
• Performance characteristics of urinalyses for the diagnosis of pediatric urinary tract infection.
• Trends in resource utilization for hospitalized children with skin and soft tissue infections.
• Twice-weekly therapy for children with tuberculosis infection or exposure.
• Childhood tuberculosis: a preventable disease not being prevented.
• Nitric oxide metabolites as biomarkers for influenza-like acute respiratory infections presenting to the emergency room.
• Etiologies of septic shock in a pediatric emergency department population.
• Test characteristics of an automated age- and temperature-adjusted tachycardia alert in pediatric septic shock.
• Chronic multifocal Mycobacterium fortuitum osteomyelitis following penetrating plantar trauma.
• Increasing out-of-hospital regional surge capacity for H1N1 2009 influenza A through existing community pediatrician offices: a qualitative description of quality impr...
• Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostics in children: 2. Methodological issues for conducting and reporting research evaluations of tuberculosis diagnostics for intrath...
• Mobile pediatric emergency response team: patient satisfaction during the novel H1N1 influenza outbreak.
• Increasing adherence for latent tuberculosis infection therapy with health department-administered therapy.
• A current review of infection control for childhood tuberculosis.
• Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with sepsis.
• Cerebrospinal fluid findings in infants with pertussis or parapertussis(1)).
• Emergency department presentation of children with tuberculosis.
• Review: physical interventions may reduce the transmission of respiratory viruses.
• Tuberculosis among families of children with suspected tuberculosis and employees at a children's hospital.
• Utilization of a mobile medical van for delivering pediatric care in the bateys of the Dominican Republic.
• Implementation of goal-directed therapy for children with suspected sepsis in the emergency department.
• Comparing the tuberculin skin test and T-SPOT.TB blood test in children.
• Mycobacterial infections in Texas children: a 5-year case series.
• Performance of a rapid influenza test in children during the H1N1 2009 influenza a outbreak.
• Outside the box and into thick air: implementation of an exterior mobile pediatric emergency response team for North American H1N1 (swine) influenza virus in Houston, ...
• Recombinant human hyaluronidase-enabled subcutaneous pediatric rehydration.
• Childhood pleural tuberculosis: a review of 45 cases.
• A bullous lesion in a neutropenic adolescent.
• Treatment of tuberculosis in children.
• Toxocariasis causing eosinophilic ascites.
• Rapid assays for the diagnosis of influenza A and B viruses in patients evaluated at a large tertiary care children''s hospital during two consecutive winter seasons.
• Mycobacterium simiae complex infection in an immunocompetent child.
• Clinical manifestations of tuberculosis in children.
• Performance of a rapid assay (Binax NOW) for detection of respiratory syncytial virus at a children's hospital over a 3-year period.
• Pantoea agglomerans, a plant pathogen causing human disease.
• An adolescent with fever, cough, & diffuse lymphadenopathy.
• Unsuspected central nervous system lesions in a small child.
• Performance characteristics of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for detection of influenza virus in children during the 2003 to 2004 influenza season.
• Abdominal pain and fever in an adolescent.
• Detection of mammalian reovirus RNA by using reverse transcription-PCR: sequence diversity within the lambda3-encoding L1 gene.
• Performance of the QuantiFERON-TB gold interferon gamma release assay among HIV-infected children in Botswana.
• Factors Associated With Poor Outcome in Childhood Swimming Pool Submersions.
• Improving Pediatric Emergency Care by Implementing an Eligible Learner Endotracheal Intubation Policy.

Schools

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• Vanderbilt University

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Baylor College of Medicine
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Texas Children's Hospital

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