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Last published 2025
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Michael L. Schmitz

High Impact

Professor

Also affiliated: American Heart Association (2011); Heart Rhythm Society (2006); Arkansas Children's Hospital (1993–2025); Marathon Oil (United States) (2015); ProMedica Toledo Hospital (2011); California University of Pennsylvania (2002); Arkansas Cardiology (2001); Clean Air Task Force (2004–2006); Potato Research Institute (2011); Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (2015); Arkansas Department of Agriculture (2001–2006); Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine (2012); University of Toledo (2011)

Faculty Researcher

Anesthesiology, College of Medicine

24 h-index 83 pubs 1,619 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Male
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Adolescent
  • Infant
  • Heart Transplantation
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Heart-Assist Devices
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Time Factors

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Michael L. Schmitz is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research focuses on various aspects of anesthesiology, with a particular emphasis on cardiac function, patient outcomes, and rare medical events, often within the pediatric population. He has investigated cardiac function decline following general anesthesia and cardiac catheterization in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients and has published on unexpected cardiac arrest during generator change revealing coronary artery strangulation.

Schmitz's work also includes examining complications related to medical devices and procedures. He has authored a report on aseptic cutaneous necrosis in a neonate associated with central venous catheter migration and has studied chronic intercostal neuralgia after the placement of a right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 23, with over 1,615 citations across 84 publications, and he is recognized as a highly cited researcher.

He actively collaborates with colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Destiny F. Chau, Jorge Guerrero, Xiomara Garcia, and Lawrence Greiten, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. Schmitz leads a research group and maintains an active lab website, indicating ongoing research activities.

Metrics

  • h-index: 24
  • Publications: 83
  • Citations: 1,619

Selected Publications

  • Unexpected Cardiac Arrest During Generator Change Revealing Coronary Artery Strangulation: A Case Report (2025)
    A&A Practice DOI OpenAlex
  • Cardiac Function Decline After General Anesthesia and Cardiac Catheterization in Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Recipients (2024)
    Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A neonate with aseptic cutaneous necrosis related to the migration of the proximal central venous catheter infusion port (2023)
    Pediatric Anesthesia 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Chronic intercostal neuralgia after placement of right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit with prosthetic valve (2021)
    BMJ Case Reports 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Particle Filtration Efficiency Testing of Sterilization Wrap Masks (2020)
    Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Incidence of Immediate Extubation After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Predictors for Reintubation (2018)
    World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Spectrum of Off-Label Nitric Oxide Utilization After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Among Centers of Varying Surgical Volume (2017)
    Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Amplitude-Integrated EEG in Newborns With Critical Congenital Heart Disease Predicts Preoperative Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings (2015)
    Pediatric Neurology 37 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • White Matter Injury in Newborns With Congenital Heart Disease: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study (2014)
    Pediatric Neurology 54 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of protamine dose on activated clotting time and thromboelastography in infants and small children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (2013)
    Pediatric Anesthesia 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • High-Dose Argatroban for Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in a Child Using a Ventricular Assist Device (2013)
    The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Multi-Tiered Analysis of Brain Injury in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease (2013)
    Pediatric Cardiology 35 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Transesophageal Doppler Measurement of Renal Arterial Blood Flow Velocities and Indices in Children (2012)
    Anesthesia & Analgesia 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ketamine as a neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory agent in children undergoing surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass (2011)
    Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 70 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Dimension and overlap of femoral and neck blood vessels in neonates (2011)
    Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 20 citations DOI OpenAlex

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