Niurka Rivero, MD

Chief Patient Safety Officer

Intensivist

Attending Physician

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator), Keck School of Medicine of USC

Education

Medical School

University of Utah School of Medicine

Internship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Pediatrics

Residency

Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Pediatrics

Fellowship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Pediatric Critical Care

Accomplishments

Certifications

Pediatrics; American Board of Pediatrics;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; American Board of Pediatrics

Professional Memberships

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Publications

Rivero, Niurka, Horn, MV, MacLaughin, EF, Szmuszkovicz, JR, Starnes, VA, Woo, MS.Is Respiratory Failure a Contraindication to Pediatric Lung Transoplantation Presented American Thoracic Society may 2002. Manuscript in progress.

Gupta, Anuja

Daggett, Casey

Drant, Stacey

Rivero, Niurka

Lewis, Alan.Prospective Randomized Trial of Ketorolac After Congenital Heart Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2004 Aug

18(4):454-7.

PubMed Link

Publications on PubMed

Research

Outcomes in postoperative cardiothoracic patients;Lung transplantation; Use of ketorolac; Death and dying in the ICU; Long term outcomes in traumatic brain injury