Pulmonary Hypertension – Dr. Karin Halvorson – Feb. 19, 2016

By Nathan Nielsen / February 19, 2016

Title: Pulmonary Hypertension.

Pearls:

There are five classifications of PHTN.
If PHTN is suspected in a patient, a thorough work-up for etiology is necessary.
Right heart catheterization is mandatory for diagnosis.
Treatment should be tailored to the underlying cause.
Right heart failure from PHTN is treated differently than right heart failure caused by left heart failure, particularly in the ICU setting.

Author: Karin Halvorson MD

Karin Halvorson trained in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at UIC Chicago followed by a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brown University. At Brown she worked under James Klinger, MD and Corey Ventetuolo, MD, who currently run the Pulmonary Hypertension Center there. She is fascinated by this ever evolving field. She is currently the ICU Director at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care Center with a Faculty appointment at Tulane University.

Dr. Karin Halvorson earned her medical degree from the University of Hawaii. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently she attended Brown University for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. While at Brown she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and earned the 2014 Fellow Teaching Award. She served as the liaison between the emergency department and the intensive care unit during her time at Brown.

Dr. Halvorson is the Medical Director of Critical Care at Tulane University Medical Center where she splits her time between the MICU and the ED. Dr. Halvorson’s research interests are on ED to ICU transitions and optimizing early critical care. She is also invested in medical education and works with Housestaff on Quality Improvement Projects for Tulane University Medical Center.

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