Professor of Medicine
Medical Director of Critical Care
Fairview Southdale Hospital
6401 France Avenue S.
Edina, MN 55435
Tel: 952-924-8334
Fax: 952-924-8390
Email: Abrocca1@fairview.org or brocc001@umn.edu
View Curriculum Vitae
Clinical Focus
My major clinical focuses are the delivery of critical care and cardiopulmonary physiology. As the Medical Director of the MICU at Fairview Southdale Hospital, I am committed to developing a multidisciplinary critical care program that combines the best of what a community hospital and an academic program each have to offer. My goals are to deliver outstanding patient-centered critical care and to have FSD critical care recognized as a unique place for innovation, education and clinical research. I view this critical care program as a true partnership between the community and the University with the potential to provide new avenues for patient care, teaching, and community-based research. Through this collaboration I am interested in developing new pathways using the electronic medical record and physician order entry to standardize the process of care. When designed properly these tools continuously add to our knowledge, providing improved ICU care for our patients. My strongest ICU-based clinical interests include cardiopulmonary interactions, mechanical ventilation, acute lung injury, sepsis, shock, neuro-critical care and airway management. I have been fascinated by the development of point-of-care ultrasonography in the ICU, which has fast become an essential tool. I am thus committed to developing a curriculum for training our fellows and staff and to encouraging research in the ICU.
Outside the ICU, my main clinical interests include sleep medicine, thoracic mass, lung cancer and interventional bronchoscopy.
Research Interests
The central theme of my research is the pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary critical illness. My current research interests include:
Development of a decision support system (e.g. neural network, EMR) for the care of the critically ill
Development of a new approach to assessment of hemodynamics in critically ill patients
Mechanical ventilation: lung protection strategies in ARCS; ventilator weaning.
Permissive hypercapnia
Position and posture in the ICU, including prone positioning
Therapeutic hypothermia
Impact on quality of life of interventional bronchoscopy in patients with airway malignancy.
Selected Recent Publications
Hotchkiss JR, Strike DG, Simonson DA, Broccard AF, Crooke PS. An agent-based and spatially explicit model of pathogen dissemination in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 2005; 33: 168-176.
Broccard AF. Prone position ventilation and high frequency oscillatory ventilation and Hippocrates in ARDS. Crit Care Med 2005; 33: 2407-2408.
Broccard AF. Therapeutic hypothermia for anoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest: time for a "cool" transition towards cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation. Crit Care Med 2006; 37:2008-9.
Hotchkiss JR, Broccard AF. Modulating cofactors of acute lung injury 2005-2006: any closer to 'prime time'? Curr Opin Crit Care 2007; 13(1):39-44.
Broccard AF. Point-of-care ultrasonography in the intensive care unit. American Thoracic Society Best of the Website, 2008.
Feihl F, Broccard AF. Interactions between respiration and systemic hemodynamics, Part I: basic concepts. Intensive Care Med 2009; 35(1):45-54.
Feihl F, Broccard AF. Interactions between respiration and systemic hemodynamics, Part II: practical implications in critical care. Intensive Care Med 2009; 35(2):198-205.
Tagan D, Bendjelid K, Beaulieu Y, Broccard A, Christen G, Fishman D, Ribordy V. Association des urgentistes et réanimateurs intéressés par l'ultrasonographie: (Echocardiography by emergency and intensive care physicians.) Rev Med Suisse. 2009;5(213):1620-2. French.
