Katharina Busl

About

Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS, is a Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, James E. Rooks, Jr. Professor, and Division Chief of Neurocritical Care in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida. Her main professional quest is to be a resource, support, and advocate for patients and families in the neurointensive care unit. Dr. Busl received her medical degree with high honors from the Technical University of Munich in Germany and completed her neurology residency at Harvard Medical School/Neurology Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also served as chief resident. She further specialized with a fellowship in neurological critical care at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After spending five years at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago as an assistant professor of neurology and attending in neurocritical care, she joined the University of Florida in 2016. Dr. Busl is board-certified in neurology and neurocritical care, holds a master’s degree in science from Rush University, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the Neurocritical Care Society, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Her research interests focus on care innovations in neurocritical care, including treatment of headache in the NeuroICU, neuroprognostication, and management of medical complications of neurocritical disease. She is the lead principal investigator for NIH-funded…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Internal medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Nursing
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Family medicine
• Political Science
• Pathology

Selected publications

• Guidelines for the Neurocritical Care Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

  Neurocritical Care · 2023 · 179 citations

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• Guidelines for Neuroprognostication in Comatose Adult Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

  Neurocritical Care · 2023 · 174 citations

  BACKGROUND: Among cardiac arrest survivors, about half remain comatose 72 h following return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Prognostication of poor neurological outcome in this population may result in withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy and death. The objective of this article is to provide recommendations on the reliability of select clinical predictors that serve as the basis of neuroprognostication and provide guidance to clinicians counseling surrogates of comatose cardiac arrest surv…

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• Neurologic Manifestations of Severe Respiratory Viral Contagions

  Critical Care Explorations · 2020 · 77 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Endemic and pandemic viral respiratory infections have recently emerged as a critical topic of investigation given the recent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 outbreak. Data from such outbreaks indicate that severe systemic comorbidities including acute neurologic illness are associated with illness and lead to significant outcome differences. Herein, we will discuss the neurologic manifestations of severe viral respiratory infections including coronavirus, influenza, respiratory…

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• Ethical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care

  Neurology · 2021 · 41 citations

  Alzheimer disease and other dementias present unique practical challenges for patients, their families, clinicians, and health systems. These challenges reflect not only the growing public health effect of dementia in an aging global population, but also more specific ethical complexities including early loss of patients' capacity to make decisions regarding their own care, the stigma often associated with a dementia diagnosis, the difficulty of balancing concern for patients' welfare with respe…

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• Society of Critical Care Medicine 2024 Guidelines on Adult ICU Design

  Critical Care Medicine · 2025-02-21 · 18 citations

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  RATIONALE: Advances in technology, infection control challenges-as with the COVID-19 pandemic-and evolutions in patient- and family-centered care highlight ideal aspects of ICU design and opportunities for enhancement. OBJECTIVES: To provide evidence-based recommendations for clinicians, administrators, and healthcare architects to optimize design strategies in new or renovation projects. PANEL DESIGN: A guidelines panel of 27 members with experience in ICU design met virtually from the panel's…

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Frequent coauthors

• Carolina B. Maciel

  University of Florida

  193 shared

• Leon G. Epstein

  Lurie Children's Hospital

  172 shared

• Matthew P. Kirschen

  172 shared

• Benjamin Tolchin

  Yale University

  171 shared

• Michael Rubin

  VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System

  171 shared

• Winston Chiong

  University Memory and Aging Center

  126 shared

• Richard J. Bonnie

  University of Virginia

  126 shared

• Salvador Cruz‐Flores

  Texas Tech University

  122 shared

Labs

• iBRAIN LabPI

Education

• M.D.

  Technical University of Munich

• M.D.

  Harvard Medical School/Neurology Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital

• M.S.

  Rush University

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
• Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society
• Fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine

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