Patrick J. Coppler PA-C
Physician Assistant and Scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPatrick Coppler is a resuscitation scientist and Physician Assistant within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His current research interests include investigation of clinical and electrographic characteristics of delayed emergence from post anoxic coma, optimal electroencephalographic monitoring strategies and antiseizure drug management for cardiac arrest related seizures as well as multimodal invasive and non-invasive monitoring techniques to optimize cerebral blood flow and neuronal metabolism after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
His prior clinical experience includes completion of the multidisciplinary critical care advance practice provider residency as well as staff positions in the neurotrauma and neurovascular intensive care units at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Hospital. Currently, Patrick works on the Post Cardiac Arrest Service, which provides initial resuscitation, in hospital and long term follow up care for over 400 cardiac arrest patients in Pittsburgh each year.