Dr. Melissa Lee Langhan MD
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
800 Howard Ave Yale Physicians Bldg New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Melissa Langhan is a pediatric emergency medicine physician practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Langhan specializes in providing care for critically ill and injured children. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians possess a vast amount of knowledge in areas such as neonatology, critical care and forensic pediatrics. Children involved in automobile accidents, child abuse or near-drowning episodes are frequent cases treated by pediatric emergency medicine physicians.
Education and Training
State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine MD
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Current utilization of continuous end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring in pediatric emergency departments.
- The 2007-2008 photo competition award winner: Melissa Langhan, MD: A painful scalp rash: cutaneous myiasis secondary to new world screwworm.
- Detection of hypoventilation by capnography and its association with hypoxia in children undergoing sedation with ketamine.
- A randomized controlled trial of capnography in the correction of simulated endotracheal tube dislodgement.
- Use of emergency ultrasound in the diagnostic evaluation of an infant with vomiting.
- Improving detection by pediatric residents of endotracheal tube dislodgement with capnography: a randomized controlled trial.
- Physiologic monitoring practices during pediatric procedural sedation: a report
- Acute alcohol intoxication in adolescents: frequency of respiratory depression.
- Neonatal seizures: soothing a burning topic.
- A qualitative evaluation of capnography use in paediatric sedation: perceptions, practice and barriers.
- Respiratory depression detected by capnography among children in the postanesthesia care unit: a cross-sectional study.
- Capnography Use During Intubation and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
- The impact of capnography monitoring among children and adolescents in the postanesthesia care unit: a randomized controlled trial.
- Can Providers Use Clinical Skills to Assess the Adequacy of Ventilation in Children During Bag-Valve Mask Ventilation?
- Use of Capnography to Optimize Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department Pediatric Population.
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