E. Andrew Ochroch, MD

Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Call 800-789-7366
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Block Chief, Thoracic Anesthesia
  • Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care in Surgery

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Abington Memorial Hospital
  • Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Ochroch is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Labonte, Alyssa K; Kafashan, MohammadMehdi; Huels, Emma R; Blain-Moraes, Stefanie; Basner, Mathias; Kelz, Max B; Mashour, George A; Avidan, Michael S; Palanca, Ben Julian A; Muench, Maxwell; Tarnal, Vijay; Vanini, Giancarlo; Ochroch, E Andrew; Hogg, Rosemary; Schwarz, Marlon; Janke, Ellen; Golmirzaie, Goodarz; Picton, Paul; McKinstry-Wu, Andrew R The posterior dominant rhythm: an electroencephalographic biomarker for cognitive recovery after general anaesthesia , British Journal of Anaesthesia: 2022

Mashour, G. A., Palanca, B. J., Basner, M., Li, D., Wang, W., Blain-Moraes, S., ... & Kelz, M. B. Recovery of consciousness and cognition after general anesthesia in humans. , Elife, 10: 2021,e59525

Rassekh, C. H., Jenks, C. M., Ochroch, E. A., Douglas, J. E., O'Malley Jr, B. W., & Weinstein, G. S. Management of the Difficult Airway in the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Illustrative Complex Head and Neck Case Scenario , Head & Neck: 2020

Falcone, M., Luo, C., Chen, Y., Birtwell, D., Cheatle, M., Duan, R., Ochroch, EA. ... & Lerman, C. Risk of persistent opioid use following major surgery in matched samples of patients with and without cancer , Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers, 29(11): 2020,2126-2133

Ghadimi, Kamrouz, Jacob T. Gutsche, Harish Ramakrishna, Samuel L. Setegne, Kirk R. Jackson, John G. Augoustides, E. Andrew Ochroch, Stuart J. Weiss, Joseph E. Bavaria, and Albert T. Cheung Sodium bicarbonate use and the risk of hypernatremia in thoracic aortic surgical patients with metabolic acidosis following deep hypothermic circulatory arrest , Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 19(3): 2016,454

Ghadimi, K., Gutsche, J. T., Setegne, S. L., Jackson, K. R., Augoustides, J. G., Ochroch, E. A.& Cheung, A. T. Severity and Duration of Metabolic Acidosis after Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Thoracic Aortic Operations. , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.: 2015

Guay J, Ochroch EA Effects of Additional Statin Therapy Before Surgery on Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 28(2): 2014,255-266

Guay J, Ochroch EA Steroids for surgery during cardiopulmonary bypass in adults: a meta-analysis , Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 26(1): 2014,36-45

Guay J, Ochroch EA Continuing Antiplatelet Therapy Before Heart Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Meta-analysis on the Need for Reexploration and Major Outcomes , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 28(1): 2014,90-97

Liu J, Martinez-Wilson H, Neuman MD, Elkassabany N, Ochroch EA Outcome of Carotid Endarterectomy after Regional Anesthesia versus General Anesthesia - A Retrospective Study Using Two Independent Databases , Translational perioperative and pain medicine, 1(2): 2014,14-21