Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Director of Anesthesia Services Huntsman Cancer Hospital
Anesthesiology
Dr. Ben S. Chortkoff, MD
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Chortkoff practices Anesthesiology. He graduated from Keck School of Medicine of USC. Keck School of Medicine of USC has a rank of 31 in research and a 72 in primary care He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Chortkoff is a published MD. He has 19 papers published. The most current publication "Anesthetic potencies of n-alkanols: results of additivity and solubility studies suggest a mechanism of action similar to that for conventional inhaled anesthetics." Chortkoff accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Factors Associated with Improved Survival after Resection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Multivariable Model.
- Forty-hertz midlatency auditory evoked potential activity predicts wakeful response during desflurane and propofol anesthesia in volunteers.
- Anesthetic potencies of n-alkanols: results of additivity and solubility studies suggest a mechanism of action similar to that for conventional inhaled anesthetics.
- Nonanesthetics can suppress learning.
- Subanesthetic concentrations of isoflurane suppress learning as defined by the category-example task.
- Does nitrous oxide antagonize isoflurane-induced suppression of learning?
- Rapid increase in desflurane concentration is associated with greater transient cardiovascular stimulation than with rapid increase in isoflurane concentration in humans.
- Effect of n-alkane kinetics in rats on potency estimations and the Meyer-Overton hypothesis.
- Polyhalogenated and perfluorinated compounds that disobey the Meyer-Overton hypothesis.
- Subanesthetic concentrations of desflurane and isoflurane suppress explicit and implicit learning.
- Carbon monoxide production from degradation of desflurane, enflurane, isoflurane, halothane, and sevoflurane by soda lime and Baralyme.
- Molecular properties of the "ideal" inhaled anesthetic: studies of fluorinated methanes, ethanes, propanes, and butanes.
- A cutoff in potency exists in the perfluoroalkanes.
- Pharmacokinetics do not explain the absence of an anesthetic effect of perfluoropropane or perfluoropentane.
- Concentrations of desflurane and propofol that suppress response to command in humans.
- Subanesthetic concentrations of desflurane and propofol suppress recall of emotionally charged information.
- Frequency of bifurcated muscle fibers in hypertrophic rat soleus muscle.
- Delayed pneumothorax following difficult tracheal intubation.
Schools
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Emory University -
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Hospital
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University of Utah Health Care - Hospital and Clinics
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1114960978 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CHORTKOFF |
| First Name Of The Provider | BEN |
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