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Alternate Principal Investigator: Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
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Rick Harrison, MD
Alternate Principal Investigator UCLA

Rick E. Harrison, M.D. continues to play a very active role in the ULCA medical enterprise. He serves on the Steering Committee of Transition Planning for the new medical center. As Medical Director of the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, he is working to streamline the systems of care to facilitate easier admissions and discharges from the hospital.

Peer Review Journals:
1. Busuttil RW, Seu P, Millis MJ, Olthoff KM, Hiatt JR, Milewicz A, Neusse BJ, El-Khoury G, Raybould D, Nyerges AM, Vargas JH, McDiarmid SV, Berquist W, Harrison R, Ament MA: "Liver Transplantation in Children", Annals of Surgery, 1991; 213(1):48-57.
2. Eldadah MK, Schwartz PH, Harrison R, Newth CJL: "Pharmacokinetics of dopamine in infants and children", Crit Care Med 1991; 19:1008-1011.
3. Rick E. Harrison, “Preparing the pediatric office for emergencies,” Audio-Digest Ò Pediatrics, 1991;43(09)
4. Shaked A, McDiarmid SV, Harrison RE, Gelebert HA, Colonna JO 3rd, Busuttil RW, “Hepatic artery thrombosis resulting in gas gangrene of the transplanted liver,” Surgery, 1992 Apr; 111(4):462-5.
5. Todd K, Wiley F, Landaw E, Gajewski J, Bellamy P, Harrison R, et al: "Survival outcome among 54 intubated pediatric bone marrow transplant patients,” Crit Care Med, 1993; 22(1):171-6
6. Weiss IK, Edmunds S, Harrison R, Donnelly K: Continuous arterial blood gasmonitoring: initial experience with the Paratrend 7â in child with septic shock and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Intensive Care Medicine, 22:1414-1417, 1996
7. Weiss, IK, Fink, S, Harrison, R, Feldman, JD, and Brill, JE. 1998. Clinical Assessment: Continuous Arterial Blood Gas Monitoring in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Pediatrics. 103:440-445.
8. Goss JA, Shackleton CR, McDiarmid SV, Maggard M, Swenson K, Seu P, Vargas J, Martin M, Ament M, Brill J, Harrison R, Busuttil RW, “Long-term results of pediatric liver transplantation: an analysis of 569 transplants,” Ann Surg. 1998 Sep;228(3):411-20.
9. Weiss, I, Fink, S, Harrison, R, Feldman, J, Brill, J. Clinical Use of Continuous Arterial Blood Gas Monitoring in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Pediatrics, 103:2, February 1999
10. Jines, P., Harrison, R. Critical Appraisal of: Pretzlaff, RK, Vardis RJ, Pollack MM. “Aminophylline in the treatment of fluid overload”. Critical Care Medicine, 1999;27: 2782-5, in PedsCCM Evidence-based Journal Club. 9 May 2000. Available at: http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/EBJournal_Club_bydate.html.
11. Weiss, I, Feldman, J, Harrison, R, Madikians, A, Brill, J. Application of Continuous Blood Gas Monitoring to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 1:1, July 2000. Presented at the 3rd World Congress on Pediatric Intensive Care, June 25-29, 2000, Montreal, Canada.
12. Edmunds S., Weiss I., Harrison, R. “Extubation Failure in a Large Pediatric ICU Population”. CHEST, Vol. 119, p. 897-900, March 2001.
13. Kache, S., Harrison R. Critical Appraisal of: Ranieri, VM, Suter, PM, Tortoerlla, C, et al. “Effect of Mechanical Ventilation on Inflammatory Mediators in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial”. JAMA 1999; 282:54-61, in PedsCCM Evidence-based Journal Club. 31 October 2001. Available at: http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/EBJournal_Club_bydate.html.
14. Edmunds S., Harrison R. “Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in a Child with Status Asthmaticus: Significances of Permissive Hypercapnia,” Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 100-102, March 2003.
15. Chow EL, Cherry JD, Harrison R, McDiarmid SV, Bhuta S, “Reassessing Reye Syndrome,” Arch Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, December 2003, p.157(12), 1241-2.
16. Cook SW, Nguyen ST, Hu B, Yudovin S, Shields WD, Vinters HV, Van de Wiele BM, Harrison RE, and Mathern GW, “Cerebral hemispherectomy for pediatric epilepsy patients: A comparison of three techniques by pathologic substrate in 115 patients,” J Neurosurg: Pediatrics, 2004, pg. 125-141.
17. Drayer M, Geracht J, Madikians A, Harrison RE, “Neurogenic Stunned Myocardium: An Unusual Post-operative Complication,” Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2006 Jul 7(4):374-6

Books and Chapters:
1. Harrison RE: Postoperative intensive care management: the first 48 hours; children. In Busuttil RW and Klintmalm GB, eds.: Transplantation of the Liver, First Edition, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1996
2. Cherry JD and Harrison RE: Tetanus. In Feigin RD and Cherry, JD, eds.: Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Fourth Edition, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1998
3. Cherry JD and Harrison RE: Tetanus. In Feigin RD and Cherry, JD, eds.: Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Fifth Edition, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 2004, 2:1766-1776
4. Cherry JD and Harrison RE: “Bordetella Pertussis,” In Burg FD, Ingelfinger J, Polin RA and Gershon A, eds: Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th edition, W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA, 2006, pg. 723-727
5. Harrison RE, Bell MJ, Drayer M, “Intracranial Vault and Intracranial Pressure,” In Society of Critical Care Medicine Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course-Pediatric booklet, pg. 175-178, 2006
6. Harrison RE and Bell, MJ, “Assessment & Monitoring of Central Nervous System,” In Society of Critical Care Medicine Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course-Pediatric booklet, pg. 179-183, 2006

Abstracts:
1. Eldadah MK, Schwartz PH, Harrison R, Newth, CJL: "The Pharmacokinetics of Dopamine in Infants and Children,” Critical Care Medicine 1989; 17(4):S100.
2. Botero C, Reda Z, Mendoza P, Davis A, Harrison R: “Permissive Hypercapnia in Children with ARDS”; (In-Training Abstract Award) presented to the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting, 1994, Dallas, Texas
3. Weiss I, Harrison R, Fink S, Brill J, and Feldman J: Continuous Arterial Blood Gas Monitoring in the Pediatric Population: Validation of the Paratrend 7â System. Crit Care Med 24:A126, 1996. Presented to the SCCM 25th Educational and Scientific Symposium, New Orleans, La., February 1996
4. Weiss I, Harrison R, Brill J, Feldman J: Continuous Arterial Blood Gas Monitoring in the Hypoxemic Child: Accuracy of the Paratrend 7â System. Crit Care Med 25:A55,1997. Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 26th Educational and Scientific Symposium, San Diego, February 6-10, 1997
5. Weiss I, Harrison R, Brill J, Feldman J: Continuous Arterial Blood Gas Monitoring in Pediatric Patients: Analysis of Prolonged Monitoring Using the Paratrend 7â System. Int Care Med (Suppl 1):S114, 1997. Presented at the 17th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 18-21, 1997.
6. Bui KC, Kaselonis G, Harrison R, Weiss I, Gray S, Atkinson JB: Heart Stun with High Troponin Levels in a Patient with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Poster Presentation at The 15th Annual CNMC Symposium, Keystone, CO, February 21-25, 1999
7. Weiss I, Feldman J, Harrison R, Madikians A, Brill J. Application of Continuous Blood Gas Monitoring to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 1:1, July 2000. Presented at the 3rd World Congress on Pediatric Intensive Care, June 25-29, 2000, Montreal, Canada.
8. Jegede A, Herrera A, Wu JH, Harrison R, Epstein D: “An Unusual Cause of Septic Shock in a Healthy Infant” presented to California Thoracic Society 2004 Annual Scientific Conference, Carmel, CA, January 31, 2004.

Poster Presentation:
Eldadah MK, Schwartz PH, Harrison R, et. al: "The Pharmacokinetics of Dopamine in Infants and Children,” poster presentation, Eighteenth Annual Society of Critical Care Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 7, 1989.