The Pennsylvania State University

Chairperson: Berend Mets, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCA, FFA(SA)

CV Anesthesia: Michael Sukernik, MD, PhD

Address: Department of Anesthesia, P.O. Box 850, Hershey, PA 17033

Telephone: (717)531-8434 Fax: (717)531-0176

General Program Information

Type of fellowship training available: Clinical only

Minimum length of training: 12 months

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 0

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty

Michael Sukernik, MD, PhD

David Fehr, MD

Kane High, MD

Berend Mets, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCA, FFA(SA)

Celestine Okwuone, MD

Srikantha Rao, MD

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 2 per week Type: Clinical, TEE

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1 meeting per year

Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds

Dedicated research time: 0

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR, specific rotation (duration month)

Critical care rotation: optional

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 2 months out of 12 total months

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 650

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 200

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 15

# of major vascular cases per year: 200

Distribution of cardiac cases: 50% CABG, 20% Valves, 30% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, mixed venous oximetry, BIS, cerebral ocimetry, transcranial Doppler


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