Benjamin S. Abella
Emergency Physician
3400 Spruce St Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Benjamin Abella practices Emergency Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Abella assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Abella examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 2001
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM- 2006
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Therapeutic hypothermia utilization among physicians after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.
- Prediction of countershock success using single features from multiple ventricular fibrillation frequency bands and feature combinations using neural networks.
- Uniform reporting of measured quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
- The challenge of CPR quality: improvement in the real world.
- Hypothermia and cardiac arrest: the promise of intra-arrest cooling.
- Improving in-hospital cardiac arrest process and outcomes with performance debriefing.
- Hypothermia and coronary intervention after cardiac arrest: thawing a cool relationship?
- Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality and resuscitation training by combining audiovisual feedback and debriefing.
- Improving countershock success prediction during cardiopulmonary resuscitation using ventricular fibrillation features from higher ECG frequency bands.
- Therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection.
- Hospital-based use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in adults.
- Are your CPR skills up to speed?
- Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in clinical practice: review and compilation of recent experiences.
- Rescuer fatigue during actual in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation with audiovisual feedback: a prospective multicenter study.
- Capnography and chest-wall impedance algorithms for ventilation detection during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Clinical Trials
Professional Memberships
- Scientific Advisory Board member HeartSine Technologies
- Member American College of Emergency Physicians
- Member American Medical Association
- Member American Thoracic Society
- Member NIH-NHLBI , R18 program study section ad hoc member
- Medical Advisory Board member Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association
Fellowships
- University of Chicago Medical Center
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