Internal Medicine Residency
Boston City Hospital
Boston, MA
Areas of Interest
Emergency department crowding - predictors of throughput time and ambulance diversion status
Effects of emergency department crowding on patient outcomes and safety
Professional Service
Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine
Reviewer, Journal of Emergency Medicine
Consultant, European Journal of Neurology
Consultant, Annals of Emergency Medicine
Publications
Medzon R, Bracken M, Rathlev NK, Mower WR, Wolfson WB, Go S,
Hoffman JR . Clinically suspected coagulopathy in blunt head trauma. J Emerg
Med. (accepted for publication)
Spector J, Rathlev NK. Pertussis in an elderly Asian-American man. J Emerg
Med. (accepted for publication)
Narang AT, Rathlev NK. Non-aneurysmal infectious aortitis. J Emerg Med
2007;32:359-363.
Rathlev NK, Chessare J, Olshaker J, Obendorfer D, Mehta SD, Rothenhaus T,
Crespo SG, Magauran B, Davidson K, Shemin R, Lewis K, Becker JM, Fisher L,
Guy L, Cooper A, Litvak E. Time series analysis of daily emergency department
length of stay. Ann Emerg Med 2007;49:265-271
Bracken M, Medzon R, Rathlev NK. Impact of intoxication among blunt trauma
patients selected for head CT scanning. Ann Emerg Med 2007;49:45-51.
Holmes JF. Hendey GW. Oman JA. Norton VC. Lazarenko G. Ross SE.
Hoffman JR. Mower WR. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study
(NEXUS) II group (including Rathlev NK). Epidemiology of blunt head injury
victims undergoing ED cranial computed tomographic scanning 2006. Am J
Emerg Med; 24(2):167-73.
Atzema C. Mower WR. Hoffman JR. Holmes JF. Killian AJ. Wolfson AB.
National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) II Group
(including Rathlev NK). Prevalence and prognosis of traumatic intraventricular
hemorrhage in patients with blunt head trauma. J Trauma-Infection & Critical
Care 2006; 60(5):1010-7.
Rathlev NK, Ulrich AS, Delanty N, D’Onofrio G. Alcohol - related seizures. J
Emerg Med 2006; 31(2): 157-163.
Oman JA. Cooper RJ. Holmes JF. Viccellio P. Nyce A. Ross SE. Hoffman JR.
Mower WR. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) II
Group (including Rathlev NK). Performance of a decision rule to predict need
for computed tomography among children with blunt head trauma. Pediatrics
2006; 117(2):e238-46.
Ramanujam P, Rathlev NK. Blood cultures do not change management in
hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Acad Emerg Med
2006;13(7):740-745.
Mower WR, Hoffman JR, Herbert M, Wolfson AB, Pollack CV, Zucker MI.
National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) II Group
(including Rathlev NK). Developing a decision instrument to guide computed
tomographic imaging of blunt head injury patients. J Trauma-Infection &
Critical Care 2005;59(4):954-959.
Olshaker JS, Rathlev NK. Emergency department overcrowding and ambulance
diversion: The impact and potential solutions of extended boarding of admitted
patients in the Emergency Department. J Emerg Med 2006;30(3):351-356.
Rathlev NK, Medzon R, Lowery D, Pollack C, Bracken M, Barest G, Wolfson
AB, Hoffman JR, Mower WR. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization
Study (NEXUS) II Group Intracranial pathology in elders with blunt head
trauma. Acad Emerg Med 2006;13:302-307.
Medzon R, Rothenhaus T, Bono CM, Grindlinger G, Rathlev NK. Stability of
the cervical spine after gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Spine. 2005;
30(20): 2274-2279.
Atzema C. Mower WR. Hoffman JR. Holmes JF. Killian AJ. Oman JA. Shen
AH. Greenwood SD. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study
(NEXUS) II Group (including Rathlev NK). Defining “therapeutically
inconsequential” head computed tomographic findings in patients with blunt
head trauma. Ann Emerg Med. 2004; 44(1): 47-56.
Stuhlfaut JW, Soto J, Lucey BC, Ulrich A, Rathlev NK, Burke PA, Hirsch EF.
Blunt abdominal trauma: Performance of CT without oral contrast material.
Radiology. 2004; 233: 689-694.
Anderson PD, Mitchell PM, Rathlev NK, Fish SS, Feldman JA. Potential
diversion rates associated with prehospital acute myocardial infarction triage
strategies. J of Emerg Med. 2004; 27(4): 345–353.
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