E. Andrew Ochroch, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
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.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Anesthesiology, 1997
- American Board of Anesthesiologists, National
- American Medical Association, National
- American Society of Anesthesiology, International
- Association of University Anesthesiologists, International
- John Morgan Society, University of Pennsylvania, Local
- Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiology, Local
- Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, International
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