NicholasAndrewPokrajacMD

Clinical Assistant Professor

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Dr. Nicholas Pokrajac is an emergency medicine physician in Palo Alto, CA and is affiliated with Stanford Health Care. He received his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of California San Diego Health System, where he also served as Chief Resident. He also completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. He has an interest in continuing medical education for procedure skills maintenance.

University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterFellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics), 2017 - 2019
University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterChief Residency, Emergency Medicine, 2016 - 2017
University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterResidency, Emergency Medicine, 2013 - 2017
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 2013
Arizona State UniversityBS, Biology, Summa Cum Laude, 2006 - 2008

PubMed

6 citations
Emergency department treatment of asthma in children: A review.
Moon O. Lee, Shyam Sivasankar, Nicholas Pokrajac, Cherrelle Smith, Angela Lumba-Brown
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 2020-12-01
30 citations
Factors and outcomes associated with inpatient cardiac arrest following emergent endotracheal intubation.
Gabriel Wardi, Julian Villar, Thien Nguyen, Anuja Vyas, Nicholas Pokrajac
Resuscitation. 2017-12-01
2 citations
Mastery learning improves simulated central venous catheter insertion by emergency medicine teaching faculty
Nicholas Pokrajac, Kimberly Schertzer, Kelly N Roszczynialski, Ashley C Rider, Sarah R. Williams
AEM Education and Training. 2021-08-01

Books/Book Chapters

Emergency Management of Infectious Disease
Chapter: Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections
Page 14 - 17Jorge Fernandez and Nicholas PokrajacEditors: Rachel L. Chin, Bradley W. Frazee, Zlatan Coralic.Cambridge University PressEdition 2nd,2018

Abstracts/Posters

Risk Factors for Peri-intubation Cardiac Arrest in a Pediatric Emergency Department
Pokrajac N, Sbiroli E, Hollenbach KA, Contreras E, Murray M, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Las Vegas, NV, 5/17/2019