Jenny S Mendelson

Interests

Research

pediatric cardiac arrest and post-resuscitation carepediatric traumatic brain injurytransport medicine

Teaching

medical simulation

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Mendelson, J. S. (2020). Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
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  Associate Editor for 7 chapters, with topics including: congenital heart disease, myocarditis, sepsis, anaphylaxis, post-circumcision complications, failure to thrive, and neonatal feeding problems.
• Mendelson, J. S. (2017). Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
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  Associate Editor for 10 chapters, with topics including: pediatric airway management, child abuse, pediatric procedural sedation, interpretation of pediatric EKGs, approach to the cardiac transplant patient in the ED, idiopathic thrombocytopenia syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, peritonsillar abscess, the red eye, management of tympanic membrane rupture.

Chapters

• Larsen, S., & Mendelson, J. (2020). Don’t miss undiagnosed congenital heart disease: in babies with heart disease, color matters!. In Avoiding Common Errors in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Stout, J., & Mendelson, J. (2020). Viruses can be real heart breakers: Don’t let the myocarditis patient blend in with all the respiratory viral illnesses. In Avoiding Common Errors in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Milligan, R., & Mendelson, J. (2018). Pediatric Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies. In Scientific American Emergency Medicine. Hamilton, ON: Decker Intellectual Properties. doi:10.2310/7900.4412
• Mendelson, J. S., & Viscusi, C. D. (2017). Pediatric Resuscitation. In Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill, 2nd Ed..

Journals/Publications

• Pacheco, G. S., Patanwala, A. E., Mendelson, J. S., & Sakles, J. C. (2021). Clinical Experience with the CMAC and Glidescope in a Pediatric Emergency Department Over a 10-Year Period. Pediatric Emergency Care, 37(12), e1098-e1103. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000001911.
• Sakles, J. C., Mendelson, J. S., Patanwala, A. E., & Pacheco, G. (2021). Clinical Experience With the C-MAC and GlideScope in a Pediatric Emergency Department Over a 10-Year Period. Pediatric Emergency Care, Dec 1;37(12):e1098-e1103.
• Strah, D., Mendelson, J., Acharya, D., & Seckeler, M. (2021). Coronary artery spasm in a 15-year-old male in diabetic ketoacidosis. Cardiology in the Young.
• Mendelson, J. (2018). Emergency Department Management of Pediatric Shock. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.
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  Selected for inclusion in the American Board of Emergency Medicine 2020 Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reading List. Per the ABEM notification: "The LLSA editors review scores of distinguished papers before a team of clinically active emergency physicians makes the final selection. LLSA articles are highly relevant to the specialty and represent the most important information that emergency physicians need to keep up with advances in medicine."
• Pacheco, G. S., Gaspers, M., & Mendelson, J. (2018). Pediatric Ventilator Management in the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.
• Mendelson, J., & Berg, M. D. (2016). Getting the right bystander to the right place at the right time.. Resuscitation, 107, A11-2.
• Typpo, K. V., & Mendelson, J. S. (2016). After the Fairytale Ending: Functional Impairment After Pediatric Critical Illness. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 15(5), 473-4.
• Newmyer, R. E., Mendelson, J. S., Pang, D., & Fink, E. L. (2015). Targeted temperature management in pediatric central nervous system disease. Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics, 1(1), 38-47.
• Kremer, C. L., Klein, R. R., Mendelson, J. S., Browne, W., Samadzedeh, L. K., Vanpatten, K., Highstrom, L., Pestano, G. A., & Nagle, R. B. (2006). Expression of mTOR signaling pathway markers in prostate cancer progression. The Prostate, 66, 1203-1212.

Poster Presentations

• Fisher, R., Pacheco, G. S., Mendelson, J., & Sakles, J. C. (2019, October). Pediatric cardiac arrest is associated with increased number of emergency department intubation attempts. American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly. Denver, CO.
• Sakles, J. C., Fisher, R., Mendelson, J., & Pacheco, G. (2019, October). Pediatric Cardiac Arrest is Associated With Increased Number of Intubation Attempts in the Emergency Department. American College of Emergency Medicine Research Forum. Denver, CO: American College of Emergency Medicine.
• Mendelson, J., Bayir, H., Kochanek, P., & Ericka, F. (2015, January). 255: Serum cytochrome c is associated with outcome and cardiac dysfunction after pediatric cardiac arrest. 44th Critical Care Congress. Phoenix, AZ: Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• Mendelson, J., Grover, E., & Berg, M. D. (2011, Fall). Analysis of Actual CPR Through a Review of YouTube Video: Poor Performance Is Common in Professional and Lay Rescuers. Resuscitation Science Symposium. Orlando, FL: American Heart Assocition.
• Zukowski, M., Mendelson, J., Pantawala, A., Bentley, R., & Woolridge, D. (2011, May). Pediatric Prescribing Errors: The Effect of an Educational Based Intervention on Prescription Errors Among Emergency Medicine Residents: 42. Society of Academic Emergency Medicine 2011 Annual MeetingSociety of Academic Emergency Medicine.
• Mendelson, J., Arciniegas-Rodriguez, S., Green, K., & Berg, M. D. (2010, Fall). Lay Public Poorly Identifies Chest Compression Depth in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Recommendations. Resuscitation Science Symposium 2010. Chicago, IL: American Heart Association.

Case Studies

• Tegethoff, A. M., Raney, E., Mendelson, J., & Minckler, M. R. (2017. Paediatric chest wall trauma causing delayed presentation of ventricular arrhythmia(p. 6).

Others

• Mendelson, J., Drummond, B., Ng, V., & Leetch, A. (2020, December 2020). "The Approach to Bronchiolitis". AZEMCast podcast.
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  Contributor to a monthly emergency medicine podcast. Each podcast features an emergency medicine case-based discussion in a competitive, moderated panel format. The podcast has over 66,000 downloads and nearly 1000 monthly subscribers. AZEMCast won the University of Arizona College of Medicine Vernon and Virginia Furrow Excellence in Innovation and Medical Education Award in 2017. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arizona-emcast/id685439303?mt=2