Neal Cohen, MD, MPH, MS
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1971
• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Websites

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• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)

Publications (51)

Top publication keywords:
Critical CareIntensive Care UnitsDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedFingersAnesthesiologistsOximetryAnesthesiologyIntubation, IntratrachealPerioperative CarePatient-Centered CareNurse AnesthetistsNerve BlockMonitoring, IntraoperativeRespiration, ArtificialHemoglobinometry

• The efficacy of an anatomy and ultrasonography workshop on improving residents' confidence and knowledge in regional anesthesia.
  BMC medical education 2023 Harmon DJ, Boscardin CK, Cohen NH, Braehler MR
• Keeping an Open Mind About Open Notes: Sharing Anesthesia Records With Patients.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2022 Ramaswamy P, Xie J, Marsiglio AM, Burgart AM, Schmiesing CA, Cohen NH, Robinowitz DL, Wang E
• Determinants of Care-When Is Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation No Longer Appropriate and Who Decides?
  Critical care medicine 2017 Cohen NH
• The future of anesthesiology: implications of the changing healthcare environment.
  Current opinion in anaesthesiology 2016 Prielipp RC, Cohen NH
• In Response.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2015 Prielipp RC, Morell RC, Coursin DB, Brull SJ, Barker SJ, Rice MJ, Vender JS, Cohen NH

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• Dialogue on the Future of Anesthesiology.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2015 Prielipp RC, Morell RC, Coursin DB, Brull SJ, Barker SJ, Rice MJ, Vender JS, Cohen NH, Warner MA, Apfelbaum JL
• The Future of Anesthesiology: Should the Perioperative Surgical Home Redefine Us?
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2015 Prielipp RC, Morell RC, Coursin DB, Brull SJ, Barker SJ, Rice MJ, Vender JS, Cohen NH
• Time to break down silos: alternative approaches to staffing ICUs.
  Critical care medicine 2014 Cohen NH, Patterson AJ, Coursin DB
• A comparison of lidocaine and bupivacaine digital nerve blocks on noninvasive continuous hemoglobin monitoring in a randomized trial in volunteers.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2014 Miller RD, Ward TA, McCulloch CE, Cohen NH
• Academic productivity of directors of ACGME-accredited residency programs in surgery and anesthesiology.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2014 Culley DJ, Fahy BG, Xie Z, Lekowski R, Buetler S, Liu X, Cohen NH, Crosby G
• Challenge of assessing symptoms in seriously ill intensive care unit patients: can proxy reporters help?
  Critical care medicine 2012 Puntillo KA, Neuhaus J, Arai S, Paul SM, Gropper MA, Cohen NH, Miaskowski C
• Does a digital regional nerve block improve the accuracy of noninvasive hemoglobin monitoring?
  Journal of anesthesia 2012 Miller RD, Ward TA, McCulloch CE, Cohen NH
• A comparison of three methods of hemoglobin monitoring in patients undergoing spine surgery.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2011 Miller RD, Ward TA, Shiboski SC, Cohen NH
• Symptoms experienced by intensive care unit patients at high risk of dying.
  Critical care medicine 2010 Puntillo KA, Arai S, Cohen NH, Gropper MA, Neuhaus J, Paul SM, Miaskowski C
• Refrain from exclusionary training.
  Critical care medicine 2010 Coursin DB, Cohen NH, Murray MJ
• Critical care medicine in the United States: what we know, what we do not, and where we go from here.
  Critical care medicine 2010 Cohen NH
• The real reasons not to rely on severity scores.
  Critical care medicine 2010 Cohen NH
• Open innovation networks between academia and industry: an imperative for breakthrough therapies.
  Nature medicine 2009 Melese T, Lin SM, Chang JL, Cohen NH
• Advance directives: know what you want, get what you need.
  Mayo Clinic proceedings 2007 Cohen NH
• Crisis in critical care: training and certifying future intensivists.
  Current opinion in anaesthesiology 2006 Cousin DB, Barrett H, Bion JF, Cohen NH
• Ethics update: lessons learned from Terri Schiavo: the importance of healthcare proxies in clinical decision-making.
  Current opinion in anaesthesiology 2006 Cohen NH, Kummer HB
• A low-volume, low-pressure tracheal tube may not solve the problem!
  Critical care medicine 2006 Cohen NH
• "Trip wires" in the trenches.
  Critical care medicine 2005 Cohen NH, Maccioli GA
• The impact of productivity-based incentives on faculty salary-based compensation.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2005 Miller RD, Cohen NH
• General anesthesia in the intensive care unit? Is it ready for "prime time"?
  Critical care medicine 2005 Maccioli GA, Cohen NH
• Anesthetic depth is not (yet) a predictor of mortality!
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2005 Cohen NH
• Guidelines for critical care medicine training and continuing medical education.
  Critical care medicine 2004 Dorman T, Angood PB, Angus DC, Clemmer TP, Cohen NH, Durbin CG, Falk JL, Helfaer MA, Haupt MT, Horst HM, Ivy ME, Ognibene FP, Sladen RN, Grenvik AN, Napolitano LM, American College of Critical Care …
• Assessing futility of medical interventions--is it futile?
  Critical care medicine 2003 Cohen NH
• How should patients feel about prolonged mechanical ventilation? Can we predict their choices, and if so, should we?
  Critical care medicine 2002 Cohen NH
• Reduced mortality from septic shock--lessons for the future.
  Critical care medicine 1998 Cohen NH
• Status asthmaticus.
  Critical care clinics 1997 Cohen NH, Eigen H, Shaughnessy TE
• Prediction of outcome for critically ill patients with unexplained hypotension.
  Critical care medicine 1996 Heidenreich PA, Foster E, Cohen NH
• Indirect calorimetry in critically ill patients: role of the clinical dietitian in interpreting results.
  Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1996 Porter C, Cohen NH
• Transesophageal echocardiography predicts mortality in critically ill patients with unexplained hypotension.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1995 Heidenreich PA, Stainback RF, Redberg RF, Schiller NB, Cohen NH, Foster E
• Changes in acetylcholine receptor number in muscle from critically ill patients receiving muscle relaxants: an investigation of the molecular mechanism of prolonged paralysis.
  Critical care medicine 1995 Dodson BA, Kelly BJ, Braswell LM, Cohen NH
• Death and other complications of emergency airway management in critically ill adults. A prospective investigation of 297 tracheal intubations.
  Anesthesiology 1995 Schwartz DE, Matthay MA, Cohen NH
• Women are at greater risk than men for malpositioning of the endotracheal tube after emergent intubation.
  Critical care medicine 1994 Schwartz DE, Lieberman JA, Cohen NH
• A strategy for reducing costs associated with pulse oximetry in noncritical care areas.
  Respiratory care 1993 Mahlmeister MJ, Fink JB, Cohen NH
• Delayed pneumothorax following difficult tracheal intubation.
  Anesthesiology 1992 Chortkoff BS, Perlman B, Cohen NH
• Succinylcholine-induced hyperkalemic arrest in a patient with severe metabolic acidosis and exsanguinating hemorrhage.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 1992 Schwartz DE, Kelly B, Caldwell JE, Carlisle AS, Cohen NH
• Use of capnography in critically ill adults.
  Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 1991 Szaflarski NL, Cohen NH
• Pulse oximetry. Uses and abuses.
  Chest 1990 Schnapp LM, Cohen NH
• Comparison of transesophageal echocardiographic and scintigraphic estimates of left ventricular end-diastolic volume index and ejection fraction in patients following coronary artery bypass grafting.
  Anesthesiology 1990 Urbanowicz JH, Shaaban MJ, Cohen NH, Cahalan MK, Botvinick EH, Chatterjee K, Schiller NB, Dae MW, Matthay MA
• Withholding and withdrawal of life support from the critically ill.
  The New England journal of medicine 1990 Smedira NG, Evans BH, Grais LS, Cohen NH, Lo B, Cooke M, Schecter WP, Fink C, Epstein-Jaffe E, May C
• Assessment of routine chest roentgenograms and the physical examination to confirm endotracheal tube position.
  Chest 1989 Brunel W, Coleman DL, Schwartz DE, Peper E, Cohen NH
• Washin and washout of isoflurane administered via bubble oxygenators during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass.
  Anesthesiology 1989 Nussmeier NA, Lambert ML, Moskowitz GJ, Cohen NH, Weiskopf RB, Fisher DM, Eger EI
• Use of pulse oximetry in critically ill adults.
  Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 1989 Szaflarski NL, Cohen NH
• Postoperative pulse oximetry of patients in maxillomandibular fixation.
  Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 1989 Smith RA, Dodson TB, Cohen NH
• In vitro anesthetic washin and washout via bubble oxygenators: influence of anesthetic solubility and rates of carrier gas inflow and pump blood flow.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 1988 Nussmeier NA, Moskowitz GJ, Weiskopf RB, Cohen NH, Fisher DM, Eger EI
• Ethical dilemmas about intensive care for patients with AIDS.
  Reviews of infectious diseases 1987 Lo B, Raffin TA, Cohen NH, Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hopewell PC
• Pancuronium reduces halothane requirement in man.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 1979 Forbes AR, Cohen NH, Eger EI