About me
Keisha Bell, MD, is chief of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Division of Pediatric Critical Care. Dr. Bell has extensive experience working with critically ill children, coordinating and delivering all aspects of their care and serving as a leader in pediatric intensive care units. After serving as the medical director of MedStar Georgetown’s pediatric sedation program, she has a special interest in the latest and safest forms of pediatric sedation.
Dr. Bell’s main areas of clinical expertise include:
• Pediatric burn patients
• Traumatically injured children
• Hemodynamic instability
• Multiorgan failure including the liver and kidney
• Pain management in pediatric patients
• Pediatric sedation
• Respiratory failure
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Anaphylaxis
- Brain Death
- Cardiac Arrest
- Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Cardiomyopathy
- Coagulopathy
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Heart Failure
- Heart Transplant Complications
- Heart Transplant Rejection
- Hemodynamic Instability
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypoxia
- Intestinal Transplant Complications
- Ischemic Stroke In Children
- Liver Transplant Complications
- Lung Transplant Complications
- Meningitis
- Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Neonatal Respiratory Distress
- Neonatal Respiratory Failure
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
- Pneumothorax
- Poisoning
- Postoperative Complications
- Respiratory Failure
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sepsis
- Septic Shock
- Shock
- Single Ventricle Heart Defects
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Status Epilepticus
- Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
- Tension Pneumothorax
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Traumatic Brain Injury In Children
Procedures I perform
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Management
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Treatment
- Allergy
- Antiarrhythmic Therapy
- Antibiotic Therapy
- Apnea Monitoring
- Bispectral Index Monitoring
- Blood Component Transfusion
- Blood Gas Analysis
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Blood Transfusion
- Bone Marrow Aspiration
- Cardiac Arrest Management
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Cardioversion
- Chest Physiotherapy
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Ventilation
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
- Electrocardiogram
- Electroencephalogram
- Electroencephalogram Setup And Takedown
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Inotropic Therapy
- Intraosseous Line Placement
- Lumbar Puncture
- Nonautologous Red Blood Cell Transfusion
- Non-Invasive Ventilation
- Pediatric Trauma Care
- Trachea Endotracheal Airway Insertion
- Tracheostomy
- Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitoring
- Transthoracic Echocardiography
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Rd. NW Washington, DC, 20007
202-444-2000miles away
Education
Board Certification: ,
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical System (2003)
Residency: University of Massachusetts Medical Center GME (2000)
Graduate: University Of Maryland Baltimore (1997)
Medical School: University of Maryland-Baltimore (1997)