Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc., FRCPC
Primary Axis:
Health Outcomes
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Research focuses on outcomes related to pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management in the pediatric emergency department. My primary interest is establishing the safety of emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia through the creation of a nation-wide surveillance system for adverse events.
Keywords:
Pain, patient safety, emergency medicine, non-pharmacologic
Publications:
Maala Bhatt, Gillian R.Currie, M. Christopher Auld, David W. Johnson. Current Practice and Tolerance for Risk in Performing Procedural Sedation and Analgesia on Children Who Have Not Met Fasting Guidelines: A Canadian Survey using a Stated Preference Discrete Choice Experiment Academic Emergency Medicine In Press April 2010
Maala Bhatt, Robert Kennedy, Martin Osmond, Baruch Krauss, John McAllister, Mark Ansermino, Lisa Evered, Mark Roback Consensus-Based Recommendations for Standardizing Terminology and Reporting Adverse Events for Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Children Annals of Emergency Medicine 2009; 53(4)426-435
Gregory Sobieraj, Maala Bhatt, Sylvie LeMay, Janet Rennick, Celeste Johnston The Effect of Music on Parental Participation During Pediatric Laceration Repair Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 2009;41:68-82
Amy C. Plint, David W. Johnson, Hema Patel, Natasha Wiebe, Rhonda Correll, Rolland Brant, Craig Mitton, Serge Gouin, Maala Bhatt, Gary Joubert, Karen J.L. Black, Troy Turner, Sandy Whitehouse, Terry P. Klasse. A Trial of Epinephrine and Dexamethasone in Children with Bronchiolitis. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 May;360(20):2079-2089
