Their efforts are profiled in Popular Science
Members of Penn Medicine’s department of Emergency Medicine and division of Cardiovascular Medicine are profiled in a Popular Science magazine cover story about the growing use of therapeutic hypothermia to preserve brain and organ function following cardiac arrest. Quoted in the story are Lance Becker, MD, professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science; Benjamin Abella, MD, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Research Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science; Jonathan Gomberg, MD, assistant professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; and Joshua Lampe, PhD, a post-doctoral mechanical engineering researcher in the Center for Resuscitation Science. Cardiac care unit nurses Jamie Weller, RN, BSN, and Dana Bower, RN, BSN, are also mentioned in the story, which follows the story of patient Pam Barco, who suffered a cardiac arrest while working as an emergency room clerk at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in June 2008 and was cared for at HUP.