Peter Skippen

MBBS, FRCPC

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

Dr. Peter Skippen is a clinical investigator within the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at B.C. Children’s Hospital. His clinical research interests span a number of areas including the clinical evaluation of oximetry catheters in pediatric patients, continous mixed venous oxygen saturation monitoring and transfusion strategies for patients in pediatric intensive care.

Current Projects

Clinical evaluation of oximetry catheters, funded by Edwards

A pilot study looking at hypothermia for cardiac arrest in pediatrics, unded by the Sick Kids Foundation

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Professor, , Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Evidence to Innovation

Contact Information

Location

4500 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3N1

Relationship Between Adverse Tracheal Intubation Associated Events and PICU Outcomes*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Margaret M. Parker and Gabrielle Nuthall and Calvin Brown and Katherine Biagas and Natalie Napolitano and Lee A. Polikoff and Dennis Simon and Michael Miksa and Eleanor Gradidge and Jan Hau Lee and Ashwin S. Krishna and David Tellez and Geoffrey L. Bird and Kyle J. Rehder and David A. Turner and Michelle Adu-Darko and Sholeen T. Nett and Ashley T. Derbyshire and Keith Meyer and John Giuliano and Erin B. Owen and Janice E. Sullivan and Keiko Tarquinio and Pradip Kamat and Ronald C. Sanders and Matthew Pinto and G. Kris Bysani and Guillaume Emeriaud and Yuki Nagai and Melissa A. McCarthy and Karen H. Walson and Paula Vanderford and Anthony Lee and Jesse Bain and Peter Skippen and Ryan Breuer and Sarah Tallent and Vinay Nadkarni and Akira Nishisaki

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000001074

04 / 2017

Biomarkers for Early Acute Kidney Injury Diagnosis and Severity Prediction

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Jennifer Palermo and Allison B. Dart and Alanna De Mello and Prasad Devarajan and Ronald Gottesman and Gonzalo Garcia Guerra and Greg Hansen and Ari R. Joffe and Cherry Mammen and Nick Majesic and Catherine Morgan and Peter Skippen and Michael Pizzi and Ana Palijan and Michael Zappitelli

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000001183

04 / 2017

Tracheal Intubation

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Niranjan Kissoon and Peter Skippen

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000122

05 / 2014

Engaging Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) clinical staff to lead practice improvement: the PICU Participatory Action Research Project (PICU-PAR)

BioMed Central

DOI: 10.14288/1.0223178

Epidemiology of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury in neonates: a retrospective study

Pediatric Nephrology

Abdullah AlAbbas and Andrew Campbell and Peter Skippen and Derek Human and Douglas Matsell and Cherry Mammen

DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2454-3

03 / 2013

Long-term Risk of CKD in Children Surviving Episodes of Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Study

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Cherry Mammen and Abdullah Al Abbas and Peter Skippen and Helen Nadel and Daniel Levine and J.P. Collet and Douglas G. Matsell

DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2011.10.048

04 / 2012

735 Acute kidney injury in neonates following post cardiac surgery utilizing the akin definition: A retrospective study

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

A.E. Alabbas and R. Milner and P. Skippen and D.G. Human and A. Campbell and D.G. Matsell and C. Mammen

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2011.07.608

09 / 2011

Critical illness in children with influenza A/pH1N1 2009 infection in Canada*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Philippe Jouvet and Jamie Hutchison and Ruxandra Pinto and Kusum Menon and Rachel Rodin and Karen Choong and Murray Kesselman and Stasa Veroukis and Marc Andr Dugas and Miriam Santschi and Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Davinia Withington and Basem Alsaati and Ari R. Joffe and Tanya Drews and Peter Skippen and Elizabeth Rolland and Anand Kumar and Robert Fowler

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0b013e3181d9c80b

09 / 2010

Pacemaker therapy of postoperative arrhythmias after pediatric cardiac surgery

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Peter Skippen and Shubhayan Sanatani and Norbert Froese and Robert M. Gow

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0b013e3181ae5b8a

01 / 2010

Commentaries on Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis

Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal

Mona Singal and Peter Skippen and David Isaacs

DOI: 10.1002/ebch.304

03 / 2009

Hypothermia Therapy after Traumatic Brain Injury in Children

New England Journal of Medicine

James S. Hutchison and Roxanne E. Ward and Jacques Lacroix and Paul C. Hbert and Marcia A. Barnes and Desmond J. Bohn and Peter B. Dirks and Steve Doucette and Dean Fergusson and Ronald Gottesman and Ari R. Joffe and Haresh M. Kirpalani and Philippe G. Meyer and Kevin P. Morris and David Moher and Ram N. Singh and Peter W. Skippen

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0706930

06 / 2008

Air medical evacuation in patients with airleak syndromes

Air Medical Journal

Gregor W. Kaczala and Peter W. Skippen

DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2007.07.004

03 / 2008

Delivery of Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury: What Are the Key Issues?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

A. Davenport and C. Bouman and A. Kirpalani and P. Skippen and A. Tolwani and R. L. Mehta and P. M. Palevsky

DOI: 10.2215/cjn.04821107

02 / 2008

Reducing Catheter-Associated Blood Stream Infections in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Journal of Patient Safety

Ziad Abu Sharar and Tracie Northway and Peter Skippen and Leslie Braun and Gordon Krahn and Niranjan Kissoon and Ruth Milner

DOI: 10.1097/pts.0b013e318188dbd1

Ultrasound Guidance for Central Vascular Access in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Peter Skippen and Niranjan Kissoon

DOI: 10.1097/pec.0b013e3180467780

03 / 2007

Hypothermia Pediatric Head Injury Trial: The Value of a Pretrial Clinical Evaluation Phase

Developmental Neuroscience

J. Hutchison and R. Ward and J. Lacroix and P. Hbert and P. Skippen and M. Barnes and P. Meyer and K. Morris and H. Kirpalani and R. Singh and P. Dirks and D. Bohn and D. Moher

DOI: 10.1159/000094155

08 / 2006

Citrate anticoagulation in a piglet model of pediatric continuous renal replacement therapy

Critical Care Medicine

Gabrielle Nuthall and Peter Skippen and Christopher Daoust and Fahad Al-Jofan and Michael Seear

DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200204000-00031

04 / 2002

Effect of hyperventilation on regional cerebral blood flow in head-injured children

Critical Care Medicine

Peter Skippen and Michael Seear and Ken Poskitt and John Kestle and Doug Cochrane and Gail Annich and Jeffrey Handel

DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199708000-00031

08 / 1997

Honours & Awards

BC Patient Safety Award of Excellence, November, 2007

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