Critical Care Surgery Expert Witnesses in Pennsylvania

Media, Pennsylvania

Trauma Surgery, Critical Care Surgery - Motor Vehicle Crash, Damage Control Surgery, Hollow Viscus Injury, Geriatric Trauma, Gun shot wounds, Traumatic Brain Injury, Rib Fractures, Septic Shock, Stab Wounds, Spinal Cord Injury, Chest Wall Stabilization, Neurogenic Shock, Acute Respiratory Failure, Solid Organ Injury, Ventilator Management

Dr. Alexander Axelrad, MD,FACS,FCCM, has been a Trauma/Critical Care surgeon for many years. For approximately twenty years , he has been a Trauma Medical Director. While born in Brooklyn, New York, he was raised and grew up on a poultry farm in central New Jersey. After graduating from Cook College,Rutgers University with a BS degree, he then pursued and received his Master’s Degree at Fairleigh Dickinson University in biology. Afterwards, he completed his medical schooling south of the border at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Axelrad then completed his five years of general surgery residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In 1991, he was accepted and completed a two year fellowship at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery. While in Miami, he was extremely fortunate to have trained under the auspices of Dr.’s Robert Zeppa and Joseph Civetta, both considered giants in the field of t...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - Critical Care Anesthesiology, Cardiac Critical Care, Surgical Critical Care, Airway Injury, Intubation, Thoracic Anesthesia, Respiratory Failure, Extubation, Medication Errors, Cardiac Arrest, Shock, Heart failure, Delirium, Sedation, ECMO and Impella, Sepsis, DVT, Critical Care Surgery

I have reviewed numerous medical-legal cases from the OR and ICU for approximately a decade, for both the Plaintiff and Defense. I am a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. I hold triple board certification (anesthesiology, critical care, echocardiography), I have advanced training in patient safety from Harvard, and I am the Patient Safety and Quality Officer for Anesthesia and Critical Care. I am highly experienced at analyzing patient injuries in the intra-operative and post-operative periods and determining their causes. My clinical work is divided between the OR and Heart Vascular ICU. I have extensive experience with patients undergoing routine outpatient surgery, as well as critically ill patients in the OR and ICU suffering from heart failure, respiratory failure, kidney failure and dialysis, sepsis, and shock. I routinely care for patients on ECMO, impella, and other forms of mechanical circulatory support. I regul...