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Alexis Benscoter, DO


  • Attending Physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
  • Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

MD/DO: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, ME, 2006.

Residency: Pediatrics, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 2009.

Fellowships: Hospital-based medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 2010; Pediatric Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2013; Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2014.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2010; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2014.

Interests

Cardiac critical care; critical care; CICU

Services and Specialties

Cardiac Intensive Care

Interests

Quality improvement and safety

Publications

Predicting cardiac arrest after neonatal cardiac surgery. Benscoter, AL; Law, MA; Borasino, S; Rahman, AK M F; Alten, JA; Atreya, MR. 2024; 2:3.

Outcomes of Extracorporeal Life Support in Children with Meningococcal Septicemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Henry, BM; Benscoter, A; Perry, T; de Oliveira, MH S; Misfeldt, A; Cooper, DS. Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care. 2023; 12:337-343.

Biomarker-based risk model to predict persistent multiple organ dysfunctions after congenital heart surgery: a prospective observational cohort study. Benscoter, AL; Alten, JA; Atreya, MR; Cooper, DS; Byrnes, JW; Nelson, DP; Ollberding, NJ; Wong, HR. Critical Care (UK). 2023; 27:193.

Spontaneous neonatal pulmonary arterial thrombosis - cases, mechanisms, and literature review. Abdelhafiz, A; Benscoter, AL; Batlivala, SP. Cardiology in the Young. 2023; 33:2452-2460.

Improving Outcomes for Infants After Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease: A Commentary on Recent Randomized Controlled Trials. Schlapbach, LJ; Gibbons, KS; Butt, W; Kannankeril, PJ; Li, JS; Hill, KD; Horton, SB; Johnson, K; Long, DA; Buckley, DH F; Anderson, BR; Swartz, MF; McConnell, PI; Vener, DF. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2023; 24:961-965.

Implementation of a 24-hour infection diagnosis protocol in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Chitalia, RA; Benscoter, AL; Chlebowski, MM; Hart, KJ; Iliopoulos, I; Misfeldt, AM; Sawyer, JE; Alten, JA. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2023; 44:1300-1307.

PEDS7: Balloon Atrial Septostomy versus Left Atrial Cannulation for Left Heart Decompression in Children with Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Perry, T; Greenberg, J; Cooper, D; Smith, R; Benscoter, A; Koh, W; Ryan, T; Lehenbauer, D; Zafar, F; Thiagarajan, R; Brown, T; Sweberg, T; Morales, D. ASAIO Journal. 2023; 69:80.

Innovative Clinical Model in Managing Children with Refractory Lung Failure. Koh, W; Benscoter, A; Chlebowski, M; Cooper, D; Lehenbauer, D; Winlaw, D; Morales, D; Hayes, D. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2023; 42:s297-s298.

Outcomes of extracorporeal life support for respiratory failure in children with primary immunodeficiencies. Henry, BM; Benscoter, AL; de Oliveira, MH S; Vikse, J; Perry, T; Cooper, DS. Perfusion (United Kingdom). 2023; 38:37-43.

Methylprednisolone for Heart Surgery in Infants - A Randomized, Controlled Trial. Hill, KD; Kannankeril, PJ; Jacobs, JP; Baldwin, HS; Jacobs, ML; O'Brien, SM; Bichel, DP; Graham, EM; Blasiole, B; Resheidat, A; Swartz, MF; McConnell, PI; Vener, DF; Li, JS. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2022; 387:2138-2149.

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