Lorry Frankel
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Intensive Care
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 725 Welch Rd 2 East Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 497-8850 Fax (650) 497-8033Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Intensive Care, Pediatric
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics (1990) |
| Board Certification: | General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1983) |
| Fellowship: | Childrens Hospital-San Diego, CA (1983) |
| Fellowship: | Valley Medical Center-Fresno, CA (1982) |
| Residency: | Valley Medical Center-Fresno, CA (1981) |
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
I conduct clinical studies into the cases of children with RSV bronchiolitis. In addition, I collaborate with Dr. Dale Umetsu in the evaluation of alveolar macrophage behavior and presentation of antigen.
Additional publication:
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for the Medical Student in Textbook of Pediatrics for Medical Students, Bernstein D. and Shelov S. eds. January, 1996.
Kim K, Frankel LR, The need for inotropic support in a subgroup of infants with severe life-threatening respiratory syncitial viral infection, J. Investig Med 1997;45:1-5.
Frankel, LR, Ford R, Der Yeghiaian M, The role for ECMO combined with aggressive fiberopitc bronchoscpy in 2 infants with severe pertusis pneumonia, in preparation.
Andrus J, Frankel LR, Ford R, et al: bronchopleural fistula (BPF) treated with asychronous lung ventilation, in preaparation.
Clinical Trials
Publications
- Improving communication in a pediatric intensive care unit using daily patient goal sheets. J Crit Care. 2008; (2): 227-35
- Effect of a rapid response team on hospital-wide mortality and code rates outside the ICU in a Children's Hospital. JAMA. 2007; (19): 2267-74
- The hemophagocytic syndrome: titrating continuous hemofiltration to the degree of lactic acidosis. Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2006 Oct-Nov; (7): 599-610
- Food, toys, and love: pediatric palliative care. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2005; (9): 350-86
- Identification of Epstein-Barr virus-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes in the circulation of pediatric transplant recipients. Transplantation. 2002; (4): 501-10

