Genevieve Santillanes, MD

Title(s)Associate Professor Of Clinical Emergency Medicine
SchoolKeck School of Medicine of Usc
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    Genevieve Santillanes grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for her undergraduate education and then attended medical school at the University of New Mexico. She then returned to Southern California to complete her residency in Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA. She continued at Harbor-UCLA for a chief residency year and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship. Dr. Santillanes joined the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at USC in 2009 and currently holds an appointment as an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. Her research interests include pediatric mental health emergencies and pre-hospital emergency medical services for children.

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    1. The Management of Children and Youth With Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Emergencies. Ann Emerg Med. 2023 09; 82(3):e97-e105. Saidinejad M, Duffy S, Wallin D, Hoffmann JA, Joseph M, Schieferle Uhlenbrock J, Brown K, Waseem M, Snow SK, Andrew M, Kuo AA, Sulton C, Chun T, Lee LK, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Conners GP, Callahan J, Gross T, Joseph M, Lee L, Mack E, Marin J, Mazor S, Paul R, Timm N, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee, Dietrich AM, Alade KH, Amato CS, Atanelov Z, Auerbach M, Barata IA, Benjamin LS, Berg KT, Brown K, Chang C, Chow J, Chumpitazi CE, Claudius IA, Easter J, Foster A, Fox SM, Gausche-Hill M, Gerardi MJ, Goodloe JM, Heniff M, Homme JJL, Ishimine PT, John SD, Joseph MM, Lam SH, Lawson SL, Lee MO, Li J, Lin SD, Martini DI, Mellick LB, Mendez D, Petrack EM, Rice L, Rose EA, Ruttan T, Saidinejad M, Santillanes G, Simpson JN, Sivasankar SM, Slubowski D, Sorrentino A, Stoner MJ, Sulton CD, Valente JH, Vora S, Wall JJ, Wallin D, Walls TA, Waseem M, Woolridge DP, EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION, Pediatric Committee, Brandt C, Kult KM, Milici JJ, Nelson NA, Redlo MA, Curtis Cooper MR, Redlo M, Kult K, Logee K, Bryant DE, Cooper MC, Cline K, POLICY STATEMENT, Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health, This article is being jointly published in Pediatrics, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Journal of . PMID: 37596031.
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    2. Inter-Rater Reliability and Agreement Among Mass-Casualty Incident Algorithms Using a Pediatric Trauma Dataset: A Pilot Study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2022 Jun; 37(3):306-313. Fisher EH, Claudius I, Kaji AH, Shaban A, McGlynn N, Cicero MX, Santillanes G, Gausche-Hill M, Chang TP, Donofrio-Odmann JJ. PMID: 35441588.
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    3. Comparison of Outcome Tools Used to Test Mass-Casualty Algorithms in the Pediatric Population. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2021 Dec; 36(6):719-723. Donofrio JJ, Shaban A, Kaji AH, Santillanes G, Cicero MX, Chang TP, Gausche-Hill M, Claudius IA. PMID: 34610852.
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    4. Occult Pneumothorax Identification on Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma Examination in Children. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Oct 01; 37(10):e599-e601. Malek D, Santillanes G, Hsiao V, Mailhot T, Claudius I. PMID: 33273430.
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    5. Prehospital Disaster Triage Does Not Predict Pediatric Outcomes: Comparing the Criteria Outcomes Tool to Three Mass-Casualty Incident Triage Algorithms. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2021 Oct; 36(5):503-510. Cicero MX, Santillanes GR, Cross KP, Kaji AH, Donofrio JJ. PMID: 34392857.
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    6. Decline in Pediatric Emergency Department Behavioral Team Activations After Institution of an Agitation Protocol. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Apr 01; 37(4):e170-e173. Pavlov H, Santillanes G, Claudius I. PMID: 33780411.
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    7. Tabletop Application of SALT Triage to 10, 100, and 1000 Pediatric Victims. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2020 Apr; 35(2):165-169. McGlynn N, Claudius I, Kaji AH, Fisher EH, Shaban A, Cicero MX, Santillanes G, Gausche-Hill M, Chang TP, Donofrio-Odmann JJ. PMID: 32054549.
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    8. National trends in mental health-related emergency department visits by children and adults, 2009-2015. Am J Emerg Med. 2020 12; 38(12):2536-2544. Santillanes G, Axeen S, Lam CN, Menchine M. PMID: 31902702.
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    9. Discontinuing involuntary mental health holds for children: Does psychiatrist specialty matter? A pilot study. Am J Emerg Med. 2020 04; 38(4):702-708. Santillanes G, Rowland K, Demarest M, Lam CN, Wilson MP, Claudius I, Menchine M. PMID: 31204151.
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    10. Points & pearls: Anaphylaxis in pediatric patients: early recognition and treatment are critical for best outcomes Pediatr Emerg Med Pract. 2019 06 01; 16(6):e1-e2. Nunez J, Santillanes G. PMID: 31157970.
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    11. Anaphylaxis in pediatric patients:early recognition and treatment are critical for best outcomes. Pediatr Emerg Med Pract. 2019 Jun; 16(6):1-24. Nunez J, Santillanes G. PMID: 31124642.
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    12. Review of Interventions and Radiation Exposure from Chest Computed Tomography in Children with Blunt Trauma. J Pediatr. 2018 07; 198:220-225. Hsiao V, Santillanes G, Malek D, Claudius I. PMID: 29705114.
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    13. Evaluation and Management of Dehydration in Children. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2018 May; 36(2):259-273. Santillanes G, Rose E. PMID: 29622321.
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    14. Involuntary Psychiatric Holds in Preadolescent Children. West J Emerg Med. 2017 Oct; 18(6):1159-1165. Santillanes G, Kearl YL, Lam CN, Claudius IA. PMID: 29085551; PMCID: PMC5654888.
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    15. Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Population. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2017 09; 40(3):463-473. Santillanes G, Gerson RS. PMID: 28800802.
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    16. Use of a Novel, Portable, LED-Based Capillary Refill Time Simulator within a Disaster Triage Context. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017 Aug; 32(4):451-456. Chang TP, Santillanes G, Claudius I, Pham PK, Koved J, Cheyne J, Gausche-Hill M, Kaji AH, Srinivasan S, Donofrio JJ, Bir C. PMID: 28345508.
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    17. Development of a Pediatric Mass Casualty Triage Algorithm Validation Tool. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2016 May-Jun; 20(3):343-53. Donofrio JJ, Kaji AH, Claudius IA, Chang TP, Santillanes G, Cicero MX, Srinivasan S, Perez-Rogers A, Gausche-Hill M. PMID: 26808000.
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    18. Does Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Ultrasound Accurately Identify Perforation in Pediatric Acute Appendicitis? J Emerg Med. 2016 Apr; 50(4):638-42. Tseng P, Berdahl C, Kearl YL, Behar S, Cooper J, Dollbaum R, Hardasmalani M, Hardiman K, Rose E, Santillanes G, Lam C, Claudius I. PMID: 26810020.
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    19. Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound for Appendicitis in Diagnostic and Nondiagnostic Studies. Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Feb; 23(2):179-85. Kearl YL, Claudius I, Behar S, Cooper J, Dollbaum R, Hardasmalani M, Hardiman K, Rose E, Santillanes G, Berdahl C. PMID: 26765503.
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    20. Accuracy, Efficiency, and Inappropriate Actions Using JumpSTART Triage in MCI Simulations. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2015 Oct; 30(5):457-60. Claudius I, Kaji AH, Santillanes G, Cicero MX, Donofrio JJ, Gausche-Hill M, Srinivasan S, Chang TP. PMID: 26323610.
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    21. Comparison of Computerized Patients versus Live Moulaged Actors for a Mass-casualty Drill. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2015 Oct; 30(5):438-42. Claudius I, Kaji A, Santillanes G, Cicero M, Donofrio JJ, Gausche-Hill M, Srinivasan S, Chang TP. PMID: 26265451.
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    22. Most routine laboratory testing of pediatric psychiatric patients in the emergency department is not medically necessary. Health Aff (Millwood). 2015 May; 34(5):812-8. Donofrio JJ, Horeczko T, Kaji A, Santillanes G, Claudius I. PMID: 25941283.
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    23. Emergency department management of seizures in pediatric patients. Pediatr Emerg Med Pract. 2015 Mar; 12(3):1-25; quiz 26-7. Santillanes G, Luc Q. PMID: 25799698.
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    24. Treating psychiatric emergencies in incarcerated minors in the emergency department: what is the cost and what is their disposition? Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Jun; 30(6):403-8. Wood DB, Donofrio JJ, Santillanes G, Lam CN, Claudius I. PMID: 24849276.
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    25. Impact of boarding pediatric psychiatric patients on a medical ward. Hosp Pediatr. 2014 May; 4(3):125-32. Claudius I, Donofrio JJ, Lam CN, Santillanes G. PMID: 24785553.
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    26. Is medical clearance necessary for pediatric psychiatric patients? J Emerg Med. 2014 Jun; 46(6):800-7. Santillanes G, Donofrio JJ, Lam CN, Claudius I. PMID: 24642041.
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    27. Should infants presenting with an apparent life-threatening event undergo evaluation for serious bacterial infections and respiratory pathogens? J Pediatr. 2014 May; 164(5):1231-1233.e1. Claudius I, Mittal MK, Murray R, Condie T, Santillanes G. PMID: 24484770.
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    28. Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Ann Emerg Med. 2014 Jun; 63(6):666-75.e3. Donofrio JJ, Santillanes G, McCammack BD, Lam CN, Menchine MD, Kaji AH, Claudius IA. PMID: 24219903.
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    29. Risk factors for apnea in pediatric patients transported by paramedics for out-of-hospital seizure. Ann Emerg Med. 2014 Mar; 63(3):302-8.e1. Bosson N, Santillanes G, Kaji AH, Fang A, Fernando T, Huang M, Lee J, Gausche-Hill M. PMID: 24120630.
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    30. Do infants less than 12 months of age with an apparent life-threatening event need transport to a pediatric critical care center? Prehosp Emerg Care. 2013 Jul-Sep; 17(3):304-11. Kaji AH, Santillanes G, Claudius I, Mittal MK, Hayes K, Lee J, Gausche-Hill M. PMID: 23734987.
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    31. Apparent life-threatening event: multicenter prospective cohort study to develop a clinical decision rule for admission to the hospital. Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Apr; 61(4):379-387.e4. Kaji AH, Claudius I, Santillanes G, Mittal MK, Hayes K, Lee J, Gausche-Hill M. PMID: 23026786.
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    32. Prospective evaluation of a clinical practice guideline for diagnosis of appendicitis in children. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Aug; 19(8):886-93. Santillanes G, Simms S, Gausche-Hill M, Diament M, Putnam B, Renslo R, Lee J, Tinger E, Lewis RJ. PMID: 22849662; PMCID: PMC4318553.
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    33. Are antibiotics necessary for pediatric epididymitis? Pediatr Emerg Care. 2011 Mar; 27(3):174-8. Santillanes G, Gausche-Hill M, Lewis RJ. PMID: 21346680.
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    34. Pediatric airway management. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2008 Nov; 26(4):961-75, ix. Santillanes G, Gausche-Hill M. PMID: 19059095.
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    35. Preparedness of selected pediatric offices to respond to critical emergencies in children. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2006 Nov; 22(11):694-8. Santillanes G, Gausche-Hill M, Sosa B. PMID: 17110859.
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