Kathleen L. Meert

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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64 h-index 398 pubs 16,014 cited

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Kathleen L. Meert's research focuses on critical care in pediatric populations, with a particular emphasis on outcomes during and after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and in cases of sepsis and lower respiratory tract infections. She has investigated the impact of various interventions and physiological parameters on survival and neurological outcomes in critically ill children. Her work includes studies on the effect of CPR training methods, diastolic blood pressure thresholds during pediatric CPR, and the physiological response to epinephrine in this context.

Meert's publications also address the development of measurement sets for pediatric critical care and the application of machine learning to identify phenotypes of pediatric sepsis, aiming to facilitate personalized treatment trials. She has explored mortality risk in pediatric sepsis based on inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein and ferritin. Her research network includes significant collaboration with Peter M. Mourani, Todd C. Carpenter, and Robert Bishop, all affiliated with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom she has co-authored numerous publications.

With a highly cited designation, Meert has an h-index of 64 and has published nearly 400 works, accumulating over 16,000 citations. Her recent activity indicates ongoing contributions to the field, with publications extending into 2025.

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h-index: 64
Publications: 398
Citations: 16,014

Selected Publications

Early bolus epinephrine administration during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia with poor perfusion: an ICU-resuscitation study (2024) DOI
Social Determinants of Health and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Pediatric Septic Shock: Secondary Analysis of the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation Dataset, 2014–2017* (2024) DOI
Epinephrine Dosing Intervals Are Associated With Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Multicenter Study* (2024) DOI
Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes (2024) DOI
Viral DNAemia and DNA Virus Seropositivity and Mortality in Pediatric Sepsis (2024) DOI
Early Cardiac Arrest Hemodynamics, End-Tidal Co 2, and Outcome in Pediatric Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Secondary Analysis of the ICU-RESUScitation Project Dataset (2016–2021)* (2023) DOI
Chest compressions for pediatric organized rhythms: A hemodynamic and outcomes analysis (2023) DOI
Associations Between End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality, and Survival (2023) DOI
Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study (2023) DOI
Viral Detection by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction in Upper Respiratory Tract and Metagenomic RNA Sequencing in Lower Respiratory Tract in Critically Ill Children With Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (2023) DOI
Survival With Favorable Neurologic Outcome and Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Cardiac Disease Compared With Noncardiac Disease* (2023) DOI
Hyperferritinemic sepsis, macrophage activation syndrome, and mortality in a pediatric research network: a causal inference analysis (2023) DOI
Association of CPR simulation program characteristics with simulated and actual performance during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (2023) DOI
Early, Persistent Lymphopenia Is Associated With Prolonged Multiple Organ Failure and Mortality in Septic Children (2023) DOI
Outcomes and characteristics of cardiac arrest in children with pulmonary hypertension: A secondary analysis of the ICU-RESUS clinical trial (2023) DOI