Assistant Professor, Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine

Neurology

Nicholas Abend practices Neurology. He graduated from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10 in research and 19 in primary care medicine Nicholas Abend is a published physician. He published 69 publications, including: 'Hospital care for mental health and substance abuse in children with epilepsy.'

Publications

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• Hospital care for mental health and substance abuse in children with Epilepsy.
• Detection of Electrographic Seizures by Critical Care Providers Using Color Density Spectral Array After Cardiac Arrest Is Feasible.
• Consensus Statement on Continuous EEG in Critically Ill Adults and Children, Part II: Personnel, Technical Specifications and Clinical Practice.
• How much does it cost to identify a critically ill child experiencing electrographic seizures?
• Consensus Statement on Continuous EEG in Critically Ill Adults and Children, Part I: Indications.
• Status Epilepticus and Refractory Status Epilepticus Management.
• Greater Fluctuations in Serum Sodium Levels Are Associated With Increased Mortality in Children With Externalized Ventriculostomy Drains in a PICU*.
• Development and validation of a seizure prediction model in critically ill children.
• Utility of CT-compatible EEG electrodes in critically ill children.
• Pediatric status epilepticus management.
• Continuous EEG monitoring: A survey of neurophysiologists and neurointensivists.
• Neuroprognostication After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.
• Management of pediatric status epilepticus.
• Telemedicine for genetic and neurologic evaluation in the neonatal intensive care unit.
• Risk factors for EEG seizures in neonates treated with hypothermia: A multicenter cohort study.
• Risk Factors Associated with Infections and Need for Permanent Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion in Pediatric Intensive Care Patients with Externalized Ventricular Drains.
• Electrographic status epilepticus and long-term outcome in critically ill children.
• Electrographic seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill children and neonates with encephalopathy.
• Electrographic Seizures after Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Young Adults: A Retrospective Multicenter Study.
• Gaps and opportunities in refractory status epilepticus research in children: A multi-center approach by the Pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group (pSERG).
• Density Spectral Array for Seizure Identification in Critically Ill Children.
• Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: Current practice and implications for future study design.
• Nonconvulsive Electrographic Seizures Are Common in Children With Abusive Head Trauma.
• Electrographic seizures in pediatric ICU patients: Cohort study of risk factors and mortality.
• A Review of Long-term EEG Monitoring in Critically Ill Children With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, Congenital Heart Disease, ECMO, and Stroke.
• Pediatric ICU EEG Monitoring: Current Resources and Practice in the United States and Canada.
• American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Standardized EEG Terminology and Categorization for the Description of Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates: Report of the A...
• Treatment of electrographic seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill children: A single center experience.
• Electroencephalographic monitoring in the pediatric intensive care unit.
• Electrographic status epilepticus is associated with mortality and worse short-Term outcome in critically ill children.
• Lupus anticoagulant and thrombosis following Henoch-Schonlein purpura.
• Hypodense middle cerebral artery with fat embolus.
• Images in paediatrics: Sinovenous thrombosis due to mastoiditis.
• Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in a pediatric intensive care unit.
• Status epilepticus secondary to hypertensive encephalopathy as the presenting manifestation of Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
• Medical causes of Headache in children.
• Neonatal seizure detection using multichannel display of envelope trend.
• Hemosiderin-laden macrophages in the cerebrospinal fluid of a neonate after Traumatic lumbar puncture.
• Intravenous levetiracetam terminates refractory focal status epilepticus.
• Subcutaneous sumatriptan in an adolescent with acute postTraumatic headache.
• Vein of galen aneurysmal malformation with deep venous communication and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• Predicting outcome in children with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
• Treatment of refractory status epilepticus: literature review and a proposed protocol.
• Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis complicated by cerebellar hemorrhage in a child with acute promyelocytic leukemia.
• Anticonvulsant medications in the pediatric emergency room and intensive care unit.
• Intravenous levetiracetam in critically ill children with status epilepticus or acute repetitive seizures.
• Use of EEG monitoring and management of non-convulsive seizures in critically ill patients: a survey of neurologists.
• Induction and maintenance of therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest: efficacy of a surface cooling protocol.
• Impact of Continuous EEG Monitoring on Clinical Management in Critically Ill Children.
• Secondary Headaches in children and adolescents.
• Medical treatment of pediatric status epilepticus.
• Short-term outcome prediction by electroencephalographic features in children treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
• Seizures as a presenting symptom of acute arterial ischemic stroke in childhood.
• Electrographic Seizures During Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.
• Outcome prediction by motor and pupillary responses in children treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
• Strain-specific differences in perinatal rodent oligodendrocyte lineage progression and its correlation with human.
• EEG monitoring during therapeutic hypothermia in neonates, children, and adults.
• Stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic, or ictal discharges in a 13-year-old girl after an overdose and respiratory arrest.
• Convulsive and nonconvulsive status epilepticus in children.
• Interobserver Reproducibility of Electroencephalogram Interpretation in Critically Ill Children.
• Levetiracetam for treatment of neonatal seizures.
• The American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's Guideline on Continuous Electroencephalography Monitoring in Neonates.
• Electroencephalogram monitoring in critically ill children: indications and strategies.
• Nonconvulsive seizures are common in critically ill children.
• Electroencephalographic monitoring during hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest.
• Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis presenting with focal non-convulsive status epilepticus in a child.
• Tactile attention tasks enhance activation in somatosensory regions of parietal cortex: a positron emission tomography study.
• The structure and regulation of the oxytocin receptor.

Schools

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• University of Chicago

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)

Conditions Treated

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• Ataxia
• Brain Injury
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Chorea (Excluding Huntington's Chorea)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Epilepsy
• Pediatric Neurology
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• University of Chicago
• University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Hospital

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