ThomasPBleckMDMCCM, FACP, FNCS, FAAN, FANA, FIDSA

PubMed

• Correction: Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness: Recommendations from the Working Group on Hospital Course, Confounders, and Medications.
  Megan E Barra, Elizabeth K Zink, Thomas P Bleck, Eder Cáceres, Salia Farrokh
  Neurocritical Care. 2024-08-21
• 1 citations
  Glucose Control and Risk of Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage Following Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A SHINE Trial Analysis.
  Andrew M Southerland, Stephan A Mayer, Nicole A Chiota-McCollum, Ashley C Bolte, Qi Pauls
  Neurology. 2024-05-14
• 4 citations
  Post-Cardiac Arrest Care in Adult Patients After Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
  Jin Kook Kang, Zachary Darby, Thomas P Bleck, Glenn J R Whitman, Bo Soo Kim
  Critical Care Medicine. 2024-03-01

Journal Articles

• CSF lactate alone is not a reliable indicator of bacterial ventriculitis in patients with ventriculostomies  
  Hill EJ, Bleck TP, Singh K, Ouyang B Busl K, Clin Neurol Neurosurg, 1/1/2017
• Healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis: Clinical practice guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America  
  Tunkel AR, Hasbun R, Bhimraj A, Byers K, Kaplan SL. Scheld WM, van de Beck D, Bleck TP, Garton HJL, Zunt JR, Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2017
• The present state of neurointensivist training in the United States: a comparison to other critical care training programs  
  Marcolini E, Seder DB, Bonomo J, Bleck TP, Hemphill JC 3rd, Shutter L, Rincon F, Timmons SD, Nyquist P, Crit Care Med, 1/1/2017
• Reply to Marx et al re: Healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis: Clinical practice guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America  
  Tunkel AR, Hasbun R, Bhimraj A, Byers K, Kaplan SL. Scheld WM, van de Beck D, Bleck TP, Zunt JR, Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2017
• Comparison of simplified ABC/2 with the simplified ABC/2 formula in calculating intracerebral hemorrhage volume  
  Lee VH, Conners JJ, John S, Busl KM, Song SY, Cutting S, Cherian L, Pollandt S, Boland T, Goodman D, Lopez G, Bleck TP, Garg R., J Neurol Disord, 1/1/2016
• Comparison of simplified ABC/2 with the simplified ABC/2 formula in calculating intracerebral hemorrhage volume  
  Lee VH, Conners JJ, John S, Busl KM, Song SY, Cutting S, Cherian L, Pollandt S, Boland T, Goodman D, Lopez G, Bleck TP, Garg R., Stroke, 1/1/2016
• Treatment of established status epilepticus  
  Falco-Walter JJ, Bleck T, J Clin Med, 1/1/2016
• Reconstructive valve surgery within 10 days of stroke in endocarditis  
  Raman JS, Lai D, Ballal A, Mirza S, Hota BM, Bleck T, Lateef O, Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann, 1/1/2016
• Case report of severe non-cirrhotic hyperammonemic encephalopathy and review of the literature  
  Upadhyay R, Bleck TP, Busl KM, Case Rep Med, 1/1/2016
• Status epilepticus in the ICU  
  Bermeo-Ovalle A, Bleck TP, Semin Neurol, 1/1/2016
• Concise definitive review: Stress-induced cardiomyopathy  
  Boland TA, Lee VH, Bleck TP, Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• Consensus Statement: Indications, Technical Specifications and Clinical Practice of Continuous EEG Monitoring of Critically Ill Adults and Children Part I: Indications  
  Herman ST, Abend NS, Bleck TP, Chapman KE, Drislane FW, Emerson RG, Gerard E, Hahn CD, Husain AM, Kaplan PW, LaRoche SM, Nuwer MR, Quigg M, Riviello JJ, Schmitt SE, Si..., J Clin Neurophysiol, 1/1/2015
• Consensus Statement: Indications, Technical Specifications and Clinical Practice of Continuous EEG Monitoring of Critically Ill Adults and Children Part II: Personnel,...  
  Herman ST, Abend NS, Bleck TP, Chapman KE, Drislane FW, Emerson RG, Gerard E, Hahn CD, Husain AM, Kaplan PW, LaRoche SM, Nuwer MR, Quigg M, Riviello JJ, Schmitt SE, Si..., J Clin Neurophysiol, 1/1/2015
• Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the Intensive Care Unit: Society of Critical Care Medicine/ American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procur...  
  Kotloff RM, Blosser S, Fulda GJ, Malinoski D, Ahya VN, Angel L, Byrnes MC, DeVita MA, Grissom TA, Halpern SD, Nakagawa TA, Stock PG, Sudan DL, Wood KE, Anillo SJ, Blec..., Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• A consensus-based guide to the interpretation of the BEST TRIP ICP trial  
  Chesnut RM, Bleck TP, Citerio G, Claassen J, Cooper DJ, Coplin WM, Diringer MN, Grande P-O, Hemphill JC, Hutchinson PJ, Le Roux P, Mayer S, Menon DK, Myburgh JA, Okown..., J Neurotrauma, 1/1/2015
• Concise definitive review: Neurogenic pulmonary edema  
  Busl KA, Bleck TP, Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• Circulatory death determination in uncontrolled organ donors: A panel viewpoint  
  Bernat JL, Bleck TP, Blosser SA, Bratton SL, Capron AM, Cornell D, DeVita MA, Fulda GJ, Glazier AK, Gries CJ, Mathur M, Nakagawa TA, Shemie SD, Ann Emerg Med, 1/1/2014
• Risk stratification for in-hospital mortality in subarachnoid hemorrhage: the HAIR score  
  Lee VH, Ouyang B, John S, Conners JJ, Garg R, Bleck TP, Temes RE, Cutting S, Prabhakaran S, Neurocrit Care, 1/1/2014
• International guideline development for the determination of death  
  Shemie SD, Hornby L, Baker A, Teitelbaum J, Torrance S, Young K, Capron AM, Bernat JL, Noel L; The International Guidelines for Determination of Death phase 1 partici..., Intensive Care Med, 1/1/2014
• What’s new in status epilepticus?  
  Rossetti AO. Bleck TP, Intensive Care Med, 1/1/2014
• NIH toolbox for assessment of neurological and behavioral function  
  Gershon R, Bleck T, Nowinski C (guest eds), Neurology, 1/1/2013
• The established status epilepticus trial  
  Bleck T, Cock H, Chamberlain J, Cloyd J, Connor J, Elm J, Fountain N, Jones E, Lowenstein D, Shinnar S, Silbergleit R, Treiman D, Trinka E, Kapur J, Epilepsia, 1/1/2013
• Meningitis and other nonviral infections of the nervous system  
  Bleck TP, Crit Care Clin, 1/1/2013
• Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis associated with influenza A (H1N1) virus  
  Jeganathan N, Fox M, Schneider J, Gurka D, Bleck T, Neurocrit Care, 1/1/2013
• Research and technology in neurocritical care  
  Wijman CA, Smirnakis SM, Vespa P, Szigeti K, Ziai WC, Ning MM, Rosand J, Hanley DF, Geocadin R, Hall C, Le Roux PD, Suarez JI, Zaidat OO; First Neurocritical Care Res..., Neurocrit Care, 1/1/2012
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Books/Book Chapters

• Neurocritical care management of the neurosurgical patient 
  Chapter: Postoperative care of the epilepsy patient with invasive monitoring 
  Page 231 - 240DiLorenzo DI, Byrne RM, Bleck TPEditors: Kumar MA, Levine JM, Schuster JM, Kofke WA.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA2017
• Textbook of critical care 
  Chapter: Neuromuscular disorders in the critically ill 
  Page 306 - 313Goodman D, Bleck TPEditors: Vincent J-L, Abraham E, Moore FA, Kochanek P, Fink M.Elsevier, New York, NYEdition 7th,2017
• Seizures in critical care: a guide to diagnosis and therapeutics 
  Chapter: Illicit drugs and toxins and critical care seizures 
  Page 343 - 353McNulty M, Bleck TPEditors: Varelas P, Claassen J.Springer, New York, NYEdition 3rd,2017
• The intensivists’ challenge: Aging and career growth in a high-stress medical specialty 
  Chapter: The aging intensivist and academia 
  Page 59 - 65Bleck TPEditors: Crippen D.Springer, Heidelberg, Germany2016
• Goldman’s Cecil Medicine 
  Chapter: Arboviruses affecting the central nervous system (Zika virus update) 
  Bleck TPEditors: Goldman L, Schafer AI.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 25th,2016
• Oxford Textbook of Critical Care 
  Chapter: Pathophysiology and causes of seizures 
  Page 1098 - 1100Bleck TPEditors: Webb AR, Angus DC, Finfer S, Gattinoni L, Singer M.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United KingdomEdition 2nd,2016
• Oxford Textbook of Critical Care 
  Chapter: Assessment and management of seizures in the critically ill 
  Page 1100 - 1104Bleck TPEditors: Webb AR, Angus DC, Finfer S, Gattinoni L, Singer M.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United KingdomEdition 2nd,2016
• Principles and practice of infectious diseases 
  Chapter: Tetanus (Clostridium tetani) 
  Page 2757 - 2762Hodowanec AC, Bleck TPEditors: Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 8th,2015
• Principles and practice of infectious diseases 
  Chapter: Botulism (Clostridium botulinum) 
  Page 2763 - 2767Hodowanec AC, Bleck TPEditors: Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 8th,2015
• The practice of neurocritical care 
  Chapter: Seizures and epilepsy 
  Page 66 - 84Claassen J, Chang I, Bleck TEditors: Hemphill JC, Rabenstein AA, Samuels OB.Neurocritical Care Society, Minneapolis, MN2015
• Handbook of ICU EEG monitoring 
  Chapter: Status epilepticus 
  Page 37 - 42Stein M, Bleck TPEditors: LaRoche SM.Demos Medical Publishing, New York, NY2013
• Monitoring in neurocritical care 
  Chapter: Glucose and nutrition 
  Page 121 - 130Bassin SL, Bleck TPEditors: LeRoux PD, Levine JM, Kofke WA.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA2013
• Clinical Decision Support: Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Botulism 
  Bleck TPEditors: Southwick F, Karchmer AW, Wenzel R, Frank I.Decision Support in Medicine, Wilmington, DE2013
• Textbook of neurointensive care 
  Chapter: Neurocritical care organization 
  Page 3 - 8John S, Bleck TPEditors: Layon AJ, Gabrielli A, Friedman WA.Springer, Media, PA2013
• Goldman’s Cecil Medicine 
  Chapter: Arboviruses affecting the central nervous system 
  Page 2161 - 2168Bleck TPEditors: Goldman L, Schafer AI.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 24th,2012
• Electrodiagnosis in clinical neurology 
  Chapter: Electrophysiologic evaluation of brain death: a critical appraisal 
  Page 789 - 811Bleck TPEditors: Aminoff M.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 6th,2012
• Fundamental Critical Care Support 
  Chapter: Neurologic support 
  Page 1 - 16Bleck TPEditors: Dries D.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Mount Prosepct, ILEdition 5th,2012
• Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care: Strategies for Prevention, Early Detection, and Successful Management of Perioperative Complications 
  Chapter: Coagulation management in neurosurgical critical care 
  Page 811 - 821Bassin S, Bleck TPEditors: Brambrink A, Kirsch J.Springer, New York, NY2012
• Current concepts in adult critical care 
  Chapter: Predicting outcome in coma after cardiac arrest 
  Page 119 - 124Bleck TPEditors: Gilchrist IC, Chang EY.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Mount Prosepct, IL2011
• The Causes of Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Fever and epilepsy 
  Page 631 - 634Bleck TPEditors: Andermann F, Guerrini R, Shorvon S.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,2011
• Textbook of critical care 
  Chapter: Neuromuscular disorders in the ICU 
  Page 212 - 219Juel V, Bleck TPEditors: Juel V, Bleck TP.Elsevier/Saunders, New York, NYEdition 6th,2011
• Surgical Intensive Care Medicine 
  Chapter: Status epilepticus 
  Page 173 - 184Kramer A, Bleck TPEditors: O’Donnell JM, Nacul FE.Springer, New York, NYEdition 2nd,2010
• Handbook of Clinical Neurology 
  Chapter: Toxin-mediated syndromes. In Tunkel AR, Roos K (eds), Bacterial infections of the nervous system 
  Page 257 - 272Reddy P, Bleck TPEditors: Aminoff M, Boller F, Swaab D.Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2010
• Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Tetanus and botulism 
  Page 237 - 242Bleck TPEditors: Cohen J, Powderly WG, Opal S.Elsevier, London, United Kingdom2010
• Civetta, Taylor, and Kirby’s Critical Care 
  Chapter: Acute hypertension in the intensive care unit 
  Page 1887 - 1898Kramer AH, Bleck TPEditors: Gabrielli A, Layon AJ, Yu M.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PAEdition 4th,2009
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Abstracts/Posters

• A prospective study of post-thrombolysis related coagulopathy in acute ischemic stroke patients
  Osteraas N, Cutting S, Cherian L, Conners J, Song S, Ouyang B, Garg R, John S, Bleck T, Stroke; 42nd annual International Stroke Conference, Houston, TX, 1/1/2017
• Errors in estimation of body weight in thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke
  Lee VH, Cutting S, Cherian L, Conners JJ, Song SY, Ouyang B, Garg R, Bleck TP, Osteraas ND, Stroke; 43rd annual International Stroke Conference, Houston, TX, 1/1/2017
• The influence of changes in barometric pressure on the occurrence of primary spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
  Pandya V, John S, Lopez G, Bleck T, Berkelhammer M, Garg R, Neurology; 69th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA, 1/1/2017
• Reducing hospital-acquired pneumonia rate in stroke patients
  Diebolt E, Andrie R, Bleck T, Drakes S, Gayatin P, Henseler M, Hernandez C, Goodman D, Livesay S, Segreti J, Daily D, Jivana A, Conners J, Stroke; 41st annual International Stroke Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1/1/2016
• Predictors of functional outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs in patients with primary acute intracerebral hemorrhage
  Grays B, Wettengel M, Bleck T, Ouyang B, Bermeo-Ovalle A, Cutting S, Neurology; 68th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1/1/2016
• External ventricular drain output predicts ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Mercado M, Ouyang B, Busl K, Bleck T, John S, Pollandt S, Garg RK, Cerebrovasc Dis; 24th European Stroke Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1/1/2015
• Impact of epileptiform EEG findings on outcome in patients with acute subdural hematoma – prevalence and impact on outcomes
  Busl KM, Ouyang B, Boland TA, Lopez GA, Goodman D, Bleck TP, Garg RK, John S, Pollandt SW, Neurocrit Care; 13th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Scottsdale, AZ, 1/1/2015
• Status epilepticus in patients with acute subdural hematoma
  Pollandt SW, Ouyang B, Boland TA, Lopez GA, Goodman D, Bleck TP, Garg RK, John S, Busl KM, Neurocrit Care; 13th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Scottsdale, AZ, 1/1/2015
• A national survey examining targeted temperature management (TTM) in post-cardiac arrest patients
  Lopez G, John S, Garg R, Busl K, Pollandt S, Bleck T, Neurocrit Care; 13th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Scottsdale, AZ, 1/1/2015
• Impact of interhospital transfer on outcomes for acute subdural hematoma
  Busl KM, Ouyang B, Pollandt S, Boland T, Goodman D, Garg R, Lopez G, Bleck TP, John S, Neurocrit Care; 13th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Scottsdale, AZ, 1/1/2015
• Diagnosis and evaluation of coma in the emergency department and ICU
  Bleck T, J Neurol Sci; 22nd World Congress of Neurology, Santiago, Chile, 1/1/2015
• Super-refractory status epilepticus
  Bleck T, J Neurol Sci; 22nd World Congress of Neurology, Santiago, Chile, 1/1/2015
• Cutoff value for cerebrospinal fluid lactate to treat presumed infection in patients with ventriculostomies
  Dunn EJ, Ouyang B, John S, Temes R, Garg R, Busl K, Boland T, Pollandt S, Lopez G, Singh K, Bleck T, Neurocrit Care; 12th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Seattle, WA, 1/1/2014
• Group B Streptococcus – A Rare Cause of Intracranial Infection in Nonpregnant Adults: Case Report
  Sweis R, Bleck T, Neurocrit Care; 12th annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society, Seattle, WA, 1/1/2014
• The impact of physiologic derangement on outcomes in patients with acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
  Garg R, Ouyang B, Song S, Busl K, John S, Lee V, Connors J, Temes R, Bleck T, Crit Care Med; 43rd annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1/1/2013
• A case of undiagnosed stiff person syndrome requiring mechanical ventilator support
  Mayer N, Kretzer A, John S, Bleck T, Garg R, Crit Care Med; 43rd annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1/1/2013
• Augustin Morvan’s choree fibrillaire and the development of autoimmune neurology
  Bleck TP, Neurology; 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• MRI detection of cerebral infarction in subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Korbakis G, Temes R, John S, Busl K, Bleck T, Garg R, Neurology; 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• CT pattern of cerebral infarction in subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Lee V, Conners R, Temes R, John S, Busl K, Garg R, Bleck T, Neurology; 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• Compliance with early use of prophylactic anticoagulation after intracerebral hemorrhage
  Hoang T, John S, Garg R, Busl K, Temes, R, Bleck T, Prabhakaran S, Neurology; 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2013
• Assessment of neurological risk for emergent/urgent valve replacement for infective endocarditis with septic emboli to the brain: A case series
  Mirza S, Bhat D, Lateef O, Bleck TP, Raman J, Am J Resp Crit Care Med; Annual conference of the American Thoracic Society, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1/2013
• A case of Hurst disease from H1N1
  Jeganathan N, Fox M, Schneider J, Gurka D, Bleck T, Am J Resp Crit Care Med; Annual conference of the American Thoracic Society, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1/2013
• Symptomatic cerebral vasospasm and cerebral infarct do not significantly contribute to in-hospital mortality after subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Lee V, Prabhakaran S, John S, Temes R, Garg RK, Connors J, Bleck T, Stroke; 37th Annual International Stroke Conference of the American Stroke Association, New Orleans, LA, 1/1/2012
• The SAH score: Risk stratification of in-hospital mortality in subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Lee V, Ouyang B, John S. Temes R, Bleck TP, Prabhakaran S, Neurology; 63rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Honolulu, HI, 1/1/2011
• Established status epilepticus treatment trial (ESETT)
  Cock H, Coats T, Dixon S, Goodacre S, Julious S, Lowenstein D, Shorvon S, Trinka E, Stephani U, Cock H, Elm J, Fountain N, Kapur J, Lowenstein D, Sibergleit R, Treiman..., Epilepsia; 3rd London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Acute Seizures and Status Epilepticus, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1/1/2011
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Other

• Seizures and epilepsy 
  Classsen J, Chang I, Bleck TP, Neurocritical Care Society Practice Update
  1/1/2013
• Botulism 
  Reddy P, Bleck TP, Zembower T, BMJ Best Practice
  http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/810/highlights.html
  1/1/2009
• Practice parameters for evaluating new fever in critically ill adult patients 
  O’Grady NP, Barie PS, Bartlett J, Bleck TP et al, Task force report, Society of Critical Care Medicine in collaboration with the Infectious Diseases S
  1/1/1997
• Neurocritical care 
  Bleck TP, Virginia Med Q
  1/1/1996
• Status epilepticus 
  Bleck TP, University Reports on Epilepsy
  1/1/1992
• WNL (letter) 
  Bleck TP, American College of Physicians Observer
  1/1/1991
• Respiratory failure in neurologic practice 
  Bennett DA, Bleck TP, Neurological Forum
  1/1/1989
• Recognition and management of generalized convulsive status epilepticus 
  Bleck TP, Klawans HL, Internal Medicine for the Specialist
  1/1/1987
• Selecting a neurologic fellowship 
  Bleck TP, ASNI Newsletter
  1/1/1986
• Medical Technology, Health Care and the Consumer (book review 
  Bleck TP, IEEE Technology and Society (new series)
  1/1/1982
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