Dr. Tina M Slusher MD
Pediatrician | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
231 E Chestnut St Louisville KY, 40202About
Dr. Slusher graduated from the University of Kentucky medical school. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Oklahoma and was in private practice in Pikeville, Kentucky. During her ...
Education and Training
University of Kentucky College of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The kernicteric facies: facial features of acute bilirubin encephalopathy.
- A global need for affordable neonatal jaundice technologies.
- Phototherapy device effectiveness in Nigeria: irradiance assessment and potential for improvement.
- Reducing the burden of severe neonatal jaundice in G6PD-deficient populations in low-income countries: are we doing enough?
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and Rhesus disease of the newborn: incidence and impairment estimates for 2010 at regional and global levels.
- Letter to the editor regarding 'hearing impairment, severe hyperbilirubinemia and heliotherapy'.
- Addressing the burden of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in countries with significant glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Maternal satisfaction with a novel filtered-sunlight phototherapy for newborn jaundice in Southwest Nigeria.
- Why is kernicterus still a major cause of death and disability in low-income and middle-income countries?
- Risk factors for severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Butyrfentanyl overdose resulting in diffuse alveolar hemorrhage.
- A modified Bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction (BIND-M) algorithm is useful in evaluating severity of jaundice in a resource-limited setting.
- Management of late-preterm and term infants with hyperbilirubinaemia in resource-constrained settings.
- Infants at risk of significant hyperbilirubinemia in poorly-resourced countries: evidence from a scoping review.
- The burden and management of neonatal jaundice in Nigeria: A scoping review of the literature.
Fellowships
- Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center UTSW, Dallas, TX, USA Pediatric
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (pediatric critical care) Pediatric Critical Care
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