Kathleen L. Meert

High Impact

Researcher

UAMS

Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with UAMS through 2024; recent publications list Central Michigan University, Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Faculty Researcher

64 h-index 398 pubs 16,210 cited

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Kathleen L. Meert's research focuses on critical care in pediatric populations, with a particular emphasis on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and sepsis. She has investigated the impact of various factors on survival and neurological outcomes in children experiencing cardiac arrest, including the effectiveness of point-of-care CPR training and the role of diastolic blood pressure thresholds during resuscitation.

Her work also extends to understanding infections in critically ill children, such as lower respiratory tract infections requiring mechanical ventilation, incorporating airway metagenomics in a multicenter prospective surveillance study. Meert has explored sepsis phenotypes using machine learning to facilitate personalized treatment trials and has examined mortality risk in pediatric sepsis based on inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein and ferritin.

Meert's scholarship includes a significant body of work, evidenced by an h-index of 64 and over 16,000 citations. She has collaborated extensively with colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Peter M. Mourani, Todd C. Carpenter, Carleen Schneiter, and Robert Bishop.

Metrics

h-index: 64
Publications: 398
Citations: 16,210

Selected Publications

Characterizing Long COVID in Children and Adolescents (2024)

JAMA 90 citations DOI OpenAlex
Early bolus epinephrine administration during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia with poor perfusion: an ICU-resuscitation study (2024)

7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Adherence with post-hospitalization follow-up after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure (2024)

5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Social Determinants of Health and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Pediatric Septic Shock: Secondary Analysis of the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation Dataset, 2014–2017* (2024)

9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Epinephrine Dosing Intervals Are Associated With Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Multicenter Study* (2024)

Critical Care Medicine 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes (2024)

Annals of the American Thoracic Society 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Viral DNAemia and DNA Virus Seropositivity and Mortality in Pediatric Sepsis (2024)

JAMA Network Open 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Early Cardiac Arrest Hemodynamics, End-Tidal Co 2, and Outcome in Pediatric Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Secondary Analysis of the ICU-RESUScitation Project Dataset (2016–2021)* (2023)

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
Chest compressions for pediatric organized rhythms: A hemodynamic and outcomes analysis (2023)

4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Associations Between End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality, and Survival (2023)

Circulation 34 citations DOI OpenAlex
Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study (2023)

Critical Care 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
Viral Detection by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction in Upper Respiratory Tract and Metagenomic RNA Sequencing in Lower Respiratory Tract in Critically Ill Children With Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (2023)

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Survival With Favorable Neurologic Outcome and Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Cardiac Disease Compared With Noncardiac Disease* (2023)

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
Hyperferritinemic sepsis, macrophage activation syndrome, and mortality in a pediatric research network: a causal inference analysis (2023)

Critical Care 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
Association of CPR simulation program characteristics with simulated and actual performance during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (2023)

10 citations DOI OpenAlex