Christopher Choukalas, MD
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine
Dr. Choukalas is an academic anesthesiologist and intensive care physician.
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He is Co-PI on a study investigating the role of sleep, activity, and physical therapy in post-operative delirium and cognitive dysfunction, consults for medical device marketers, leads process improvement/systems redesign efforts using lean methodologies, and thinks and writes about the larger world of healthcare structure and policy, including a book chapter on occupational exposures in anesthesia practice for Miller's Anesthesia, the pre-eminent text in the field.
His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in psychology from Gustavus Adolphus College and Iowa State University, respectively, and he graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed residency training in anesthesiology at the University of Chicago, and fellowship training in critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is board-certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and is an active clinician in both specialties.
Awards
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- Excellence in Teaching Award, Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2014
- Grant to study a proprietary algorithm for the detection of critical illness, Northern California Institute for Research and Education, 2012-2014
Websites
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- @@chrischoukalas on Twitter (twitter.com)
Publications (15)
Top publication keywords:
Intensive Care UnitsDepressive Disorder, MajorDiagnostic Tests, RoutinePneumonia, ViralAnesthesia, GeneralElectroconvulsive TherapyAnesthesia Department, HospitalDiagnostic ImagingMasksEmergency Medical ServicesRespiration, ArtificialHypocapniaCross-Over StudiesBetacoronavirusDelivery of Health Care, Integrated
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Does adding muscle relaxant make post-operative pain better? a narrative review of the literature from US and European studies.
Anesthesia and pain medicine 2023 Verdiner R, Khurmi N, Choukalas C, Erickson C, Poterack K -
The Impact of Surgery duration and Surgery End Time on Postoperative Sleep in Older Adults.
Journal of sleep disorders and management 2021 Tran D, Tang C, Tabatabai S, Pleasants D, Choukalas C, Min J, Do Q, Sands L, Lee K, Leung JM -
The Problem of Daily Imaging in the Intensive Care Unit: When You Care So Much It Hurts.
JAMA internal medicine 2020 Choukalas CG, Vu TG -
COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities Intensive Care Unit.
Anesthesia and analgesia 2020 Verdiner RE, Choukalas CG, Siddiqui S, Stahl DL, Galvagno SM, Jabaley CS, Bartz RR, Lane-Fall M, Goff KL, Sreedharan R, Bennett S, Williams GW, Khanna AK -
Miller's Anesthesia (M Gropper, Ed.)
Occupational Safety, Infection Control, and Substance Abuse 2019 Choukalas, CG, Michelow, M, Fitzsimmons, M
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Miller's Anesthesia, 8th Edition (R. Miller, Ed)
Occupational Safety Including Substance Abuse 2015 Choukalas, CG, Nicholau, D -
Goal Directed Fluid Resuscitation: A Review of Hemodynamic, Metabolic, and Monitoring Based Goals.
Current Anesthesiology Reports 2013 Jeffrey A. Katz, Christopher G. Choukalas -
Fluid resuscitation: A review of hemodynamic, metabolic, and monitoring-based goals
Current Anesthesiology Reviews 2013 Katz, JA, Choukalas, CG. -
Intervention- versus physiology-based risk assessment scores for predicting cardiac arrest: a pilot study
F1000Research. 2013 Choukalas CG, Kellman S, Keese ML, Loor, M, Vasington, M, O’Connor, MF, Edelson, DP. -
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Critical Care Medicine 2012 Karen Hirsch, Christopher Choukalas, Vineeta Singh -
The 5-Minute Anesthesia Consult. N. Singh-Radcliff and A. Gupta (Eds.)
The Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome. 2012 Stechert, MM. Choukalas, CG. -
Goal-Directed Fluid Resuscitation.
ICU Director 2011 Christopher G. Choukalas -
Goal-Directed Fluid Resuscitation: Strategies for the Intensive Care Unit
ICU Director 2011 Choukalas, CG -
Mask ventilation, hypocapnia, and seizure duration in electroconvulsive therapy.
Journal of clinical anesthesia 2010 Choukalas CG, Walter J, Glick D, O'Connor MF, Tung A, Dinwiddie SH, Nunnally ME -
Clinical Reviews in Anesthesia (F Moya, Ed.)
Coagulation Abnormalities Made Easy 2010 Choukalas, CG, Liu, LL.