Charles G. Pribble
No Rating Available
(Learn About Our Rating System)

Charles G. Pribble, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Children's Hospital

Pediatric Critical Care
Salt Lake City
Directions

  • I pursued dual training in anesthesia and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins and the University of Utah. During my Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship at Johns Hopkins, I was able to spend 40% of my clinical time doing cardiac anesthesia for children with congenital heart disease. I then returned to complete my training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) here at the University of Utah. This latter fellowship had a heavy emphasis on the perioperative care of children with congenital heart disease (CHD). Throughout my training, I found myself most attracted to the care of patients with CHD, both in the operating room (OR) and in the intensive care unit following their surgeries. This both provided the background and set the stage for the sub-specialization that occurred in my career over the following almost twenty years.


    Beginning in 2000, a decision was made to focus our peri-operative care of children with CHD via sub-specialization within the fields of anesthesia and critical care. Specifically, this meant that a small group of individuals would devote their clinical time to the care of patients with CHD. With a small group of physicians involved, the exposure to rare forms of CHD would be maximized and, thus, care would be optimized. In the OR, five anesthesiologists were chosen to provide the anesthesia for cardiac procedures. This number was chosen carefully to ensure a minimum number of cardiopulmonary bypass cases per anesthesiologist per year. Shortly after this, I was asked to be one of five cardiac intensivists, and by 2001, a Cardiac ICU (CICU) was born. This finally allowed me to focus care on the patients that interested me the most, from the operating room to the intensive care unit afterwards. Soon after this, I was named Head of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and continue to serve in that position to the present time.
    In brief, over the last 30+ years, these groups have thrived and our peri-operative care of these complex children has expanded both in the OR and ICU. We now have a 16 bed CICU and deliver over 700 cardiac anesthetics per year.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Anesthesiology
    American Board of Anesthesiology (Sub: Pediatric Anesthesiology)
    American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)

  • I pursued dual training in anesthesia and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins and the University of Utah. During my Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship at Johns Hopkins, I was able to spend 40% of my clinical time doing cardiac anesthesia for children with congenital heart disease. I then returned to complete my training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) here at the University of Utah. This latter fellowship had a heavy emphasis on the perioperative care of children with congenital heart disease (CHD). Throughout my training, I found myself most attracted to the care of patients with CHD, both in the operating room (OR) and in the intensive care unit following their surgeries. This both provided the background and set the stage for the sub-specialization that occurred in my career over the following almost twenty years.


    Beginning in 2000, a decision was made to focus our peri-operative care of children with CHD via sub-specialization within the fields of anesthesia and critical care. Specifically, this meant that a small group of individuals would devote their clinical time to the care of patients with CHD. With a small group of physicians involved, the exposure to rare forms of CHD would be maximized and, thus, care would be optimized. In the OR, five anesthesiologists were chosen to provide the anesthesia for cardiac procedures. This number was chosen carefully to ensure a minimum number of cardiopulmonary bypass cases per anesthesiologist per year. Shortly after this, I was asked to be one of five cardiac intensivists, and by 2001, a Cardiac ICU (CICU) was born. This finally allowed me to focus care on the patients that interested me the most, from the operating room to the intensive care unit afterwards. Soon after this, I was named Head of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and continue to serve in that position to the present time.
    In brief, over the last 30+ years, these groups have thrived and our peri-operative care of these complex children has expanded both in the OR and ICU. We now have a 16 bed CICU and deliver over 700 cardiac anesthetics per year.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics -Professor (Clinical)
    Academic Divisions Critical Care
    Board Certification
    American Board of Anesthesiology
    American Board of Anesthesiology (Sub: Pediatric Anesthesiology)
    American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)

    Education history

    Fellowship Pediatric Critical Care - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow
    Fellowship Pediatric Anesthesiology - Johns Hopkins Fellow
    Residency Anesthesiology - Johns Hopkins Resident
    Chief Resident Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Chief Resident
    Residency Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - Vanderbilt University M.D.
    Undergraduate Biochemistry - Claremont McKenna (Men's) College B.A.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Marietta J, Glotzbach KL, Jones CE, Ou Z, Profsky TK, Clegg D, Winder MM, Pribble CG (2022). Assessing the Impact of Nasotracheal Intubation on Postoperative Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease: A Quality Improvement Project at a Single Heart Center. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 23(7).
    2. Amula V, Vener DF, Pribble CG, Riegger L, Wilson EC, Shekerdemian LS, Ou Z, Presson AP, Witte MK, Nicolson SC (2019). Changes in Anesthetic and Postoperative Sedation-Analgesia Practice Associated With Early Extubation Following Infant Cardiac Surgery: Experience From the Pediatric Heart Network Collaborative Learning Study. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 20(10), 931-939. (Read full article)
    3. Delgado-Corcoran C1, Van Dorn CS, Pribble C, Thorell EA, Pavia AT, Ward C, Smout R, Bratton SL, Burch PT (2017). Reducing Pediatric Sternal Wound Infections: A Quality Improvement Project. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 18(5), 461-468.

    Other

    1. Delgado-Corcoran C, Blaschke AJ, Ou Z, Presson AP, Burch PT, Pribble CG, Menon SC (2018). Respiratory Testing and Hospital Outcomes in Asymptomatic Infants Undergoing Heart Surgery. Pediatr Cardiol (40(2), pp. 339-348). United States. (Read full article)