Oliver Laurent Karam MD PhD

PubMed

• Clinical outcomes in critically ill children on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with severe thrombocytopenia.
  Sonia Labarinas, Kalpana Norbisrath, Dana Johnson, Jon Meliones, Christopher Greenleaf
  Perfusion. 2025-04-01
• Platelet transfusion stated practices among neonatal and paediatric veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation providers: A survey.
  Trupti Ingle, Brian Simms, Jesse Bain, Melania M Bembea, Jill M Cholette
  Vox Sanguinis. 2025-03-17
• Trauma-related psychopathologies after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Ashley Demory, Elizabeth Broden, Lucile Equey, Melissa C Funaro, Mona Sharifi
  Perfusion. 2025-01-29

Books/Book Chapters

• Fuhrman's Zimmerman's Pediatric Critical Care 
  Chapter: Transfusion medicine in the PICU 
  Page 1295 - 1311Lacroix J, Tucci M, Karam O, Spinella PEditors: Fuhrman BP, Zimmerman JJ.Elsevier, New York, NYEdition 5th,2016
• Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care 
  Chapter: Blood products and Transfusion Therapies 
  Page 621 - 638Karam O, Spinella P, Wong E, Luban NWolters KluwerEdition 5th,2015
• Le livre des Journ ees Parisiennes de P ediatrie 
  Chapter: Transfusions d'érythrocytes en pédiatrie : risques, bénéfices et indications 
  Page 145 - 151Karam OEditors: Gendrel D.Nex & Com Medical Events2012
• Pediatric Critical Care 
  Chapter: Transfusion Medicine 
  Page 1182 - 1176Lacroix J, Tucci M, Tinmouth A, Gauvin F, Karam OEditors: Fuhrman BP, Zimmerman JJ.Elsevier, New York, NYEdition 4th,2011
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Abstracts/Posters

• An Unusual Event at the Maternity Ward
  Felice Civitillo C, Pfister R, Bordessoule A, Karam O, Swiss Society of Neonatology Annual Meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 1/16/2018
• Association of Perioperative Red Cell Transfusions with Post- operative Venous Thromboembolism in Children and Neonates: Results from a Multicenter North American Pro...
  Goel R, Tobian AAR, Ravi P, Cushing MM, Frank SM, Takemoto CM, Vasovic L, Nellis M, Karam O, Josephson CD, American Association of Blood Bankers, Boston, MA, 1/13/2018
• International survey on anticoagulation strategies after pediatric liver transplantation
  Calinescu-Tuleasca A, Karam O, Wilde JCH, McLin VA, Wildhaber BE, International Pediatric Transplantation Association (IPTA) meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 1/27/2017
• Effects of plasma transfusions on antithrombin levels after pediatric liver transplantation
  Arni D, Wildhaber B, McLin V, Rimensberger PC, Ansari M, Fontana P, Karam O, International Pediatric Transplantation Association (IPTA) meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 1/27/2017
• Transfusions thresholds before and after a randomized study. Do we change our practice?
  Labarinas S, Karam O, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Honolulu, HI, 1/21/2017
• A quantitative pilot study on donation after cardiac death (DCD): Perceptions felt by the nursing and medical staff in intensive care units
  Zellweger A, Eckert P, Karam O, Cedraschi C, Moretti D, Majmou H, Carre D, Ludwig V, Gasche Y, 14th Congress of the International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement, Geneva, Switzerland, 1/6/2017
• Preterm newborn monitoring with Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Perfusion Index (PI) in the first 72 hours of life
  Janaillac M, Karam O, Raboisson MJ, Barrington K, Lapointe A, Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting (PAS), Baltimore, MD, 1/30/2016
• Donation after cardiac death (DCD): a medical practice with ethical and psychological implications
  Zellweger A, Eckert P, Karam O, Cedraschi C, Moretti D, Majmou H, Carre D, Ludwig V, Gasche Y, Swiss Critical Care Meeting, Montreux, Switzerland, 1/21/2016
• Anemia at discharge of pediatric intensive care unit
  Demaret P, Karam O, Tucci M, Lacroix J, Lebrun F, Mulder A, Leteurtre S, World Congress oft he World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (PICC), Toronto, Canada, 1/4/2016
• Ketosis after cardiopulmonary bypass in children in associated with a low cardiac output
  Klee P, Arni D, Saudan S, Schwitzgebel V, Sharma R, Karam O, Rimensberger PC, World Congress oft he World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (PICC), Toronto, Canada, 1/4/2016
• Performance of the Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction 2 score in critically ill children requiring plasma transfusions
  Karam O, Demaret P, Duhamel A, Shefler A, Spinella S, Stanworth S, Tucci M,, World Congress oft he World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (PICC), Toronto, Canada, 1/4/2016
• PCR coupled with Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for ruling out neonatal sepsis
  Delco Volont e C, Karam O, Pfister R, Gervaix A, Renzi G, Emonet S, Schrenzel J, Posfay-Barbe K, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), Berlin, Germany, 1/3/2015
• Proceedings of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's State of the Science in Transfusion Medicine symposium
  Spitalnik SL, Triulzi D, Devine DV, Dzik WH, Eder AF, Gernsheimer T, Josephson CD, Kor DJ, Luban NL, Roubinian NH, Mondoro T, Welniak LA, Zou S, Glynn S; State of the..., Transfusion, 1/1/2015
• Validation of a Tool for the Assessment of Trainees during Simulated Pediatric Resuscitation
  Shayan Y, Gravel, J, Bhanji, F, Weiss, M, Karam, O, Manzano, S, Bank, I, Choker, G, Levy, A, Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, San Francisco, CA, 1/25/2014
• Agreement between scores and outcomes in Necrotizing Enterocolitis
  Arni D, Vidal I, Karam O, Rimensberger PC, Hanquinet S, Wildhaber BE, Swiss Society of Pediatric Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1/19/2013
• Transfusion thresholds in children with sepsis
  O. Karam, M. Tucci, T. Ducruet, H. Hume, J. Lacroix, F. Gauvin, Society of Critical Care Medicine�s 39th congress; International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Miami, FL, 2010; Brussels, Belgium, 2011, 1/22/2011
• Association between red blood cell unit length of storage and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in pediatric intensive care
  O. Karam, M. Tucci, ST. Bateman, T. Ducruet, P. Spinella, AG. Randolph, J. Lacroix, Society of Critical Care Medicine�s 39th congress, Miami, FL, 1/9/2010
• Effect of red blood cell unit length of storage on outcome in critically ill children
  O. Karam, M. Tucci, ST. Bateman, T. Ducruet, P. Spinella, AG. Randolph, J. Lacroix, International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, 1/24/2009
• Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Children: a Score to Predict Irgan Injury
  O. Karam, O. Sanchez, C. Chardot, G. La Scala, International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, 1/24/2009
• Vein of Galen Aneurismal Malformation: high-flow congestive heart failure responsive only to Prostaglandine E1 infusion
  O. Karam, E. da Cruz, D. Rufenacht, P. Rimensberger, World Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1/24/2007
• Clinical and Biological Features in Very Low Birth Weight Infants with Staphylococcus epidermidis Sepsis
  O. Karam, M. Berner, World Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1/24/2007
• Kystes linguaux congenitaux - a propos d�un cas
  O. Karam, R Pfister R, P Extermann, C Chardot, G La Scala, Annual Congress of the French Pediatric Surgery Society, Rouen, France, 1/14/2007
• Valeur diagnostique des tests h epatiques apres traumatisme abdominal ferm e chez l�enfant
  O. Karam, G. La Scala, C. Le Coultre, C. Chardot, Annual Congress of the French Pediatric Surgery Society, Reims, France, 1/21/2005
• Liver function tests in paediatric blunt abdominal traumas requiring admission
  O. Karam, G. La Scala, C. Le Coultre, Annual Congress of the Swiss Pediatric Surgery Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 1/25/2003
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Lectures

• Fluid bolus therapy in neonates: A multi-center, international cross-sectional study 
  Toronto, Canada - 1/5/2018
• Red blood cell transfusions in critically ill children 
  Paris, France, 2012; New York City, NY, 2018 - 1/1/2018
• Clinically Relevant Bleeding � Results from an International Survey 
  San Diego, CA - 1/1/2018
• Large international point-prevalence studies on plasma 
  Toronto, ON, Canada - 1/1/2018
• Defining a problem when everyone believes they already know the answer 
  Toronto, ON, Canada - 1/1/2018
• Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children 
  San Diego, CA, 2017; Baltimore, MD, 2017; New York City, NY, 2018 - 1/1/2018
• Too much of a good thing: a case report 
  Ghent, Belgium - 1/18/2017
• Relation entre le NIRS c er ebral, l'Index de Perfusion et les d ebits cardiaques chez les grands pr ematur es dans les premieres 72 heures de vie 
  Paris, France - 1/14/2017
• Prognostic Evaluation of Mortality after Pediatric Resuscitation Assisted by Extracorporeal life support 
  Marbella, Spain - 1/10/2017
• Defining clinically relevant bleeding 
  Montreal, Canada - 1/1/2017
• S/D plasma is associated with improved survival compared to FFP in critically ill children 
  Copenhagen, Denmark - 1/1/2017
• Plasma transfusions in the PICU: Primum non nocere 
  Tel-Aviv, Israel - 1/1/2017
• RBC transfusions: when is low too low 
  Tel-Aviv, Israel - 1/1/2017
• Indications and effects of plasma transfusions in critically ill children 
  Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland - 1/13/2016
• Effects of plasma transfusions on antithrombin levels after pediatric liver transplant 
  St. Gallen, Switzerland - 1/8/2016
• Transfusion strategies after cardiac surgery 
  Montreux, Switzerland, 2015; Rome, Italy, 2016 - 1/1/2016
• International study on plasma transfusions 
  Toronto, Canada - 1/1/2016
• Hemodynamic support in very low birth weight infants 
  Paris, France - 1/1/2016
• NIRS and microcirculation to assess tissue perfusion 
  Geneva, Switzerland - 1/1/2016
• Plasma Transfusions in Children 
  Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland - 1/1/2016
• Rapid ruling out of neonatal sepsis by PCR coupled with Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry 
  Brussels, Belgium - 1/17/2015
• Plasma transfusions in critically ill children: study design 
  Lake Louise, AB, Canada, 2015; Austin, TX, 2015 - 1/1/2015
• Transfusions after cardiac surgery 
  Vilnius, Lithuania - 1/1/2015
• Preliminary results of an international point-prevalence study on plasma transfusions 
  Montreal, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Extracorporeal support for liver failure 
  Bern, Switzerland - 1/1/2014
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