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Mauro Caffarelli, MD

Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, UCSF

San Francisco, CA, USA

About

Mauro Caffarelli, MD, is a pediatric critical care physician at UCSF. He invented the Correlate of Injury to the Nervous System (COIN) index for EEG stroke detection, which has greater than 90% sensitivity and specificity for large stroke recognition.

Research Interests

Pediatric critical careQuantitative EEGStroke detectionExtracorporeal life supportCerebral injury
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Publications(2)

Focal Cerebral Injury in Pediatric Extracorporeal Life Support: Timing in Relation to Cannulation or Other Circuit Events in a Single-Center Retrospective Series, 2015-2023

Caffarelli M, Li Y, Amorim E, Finlay K, Guterman EL, Benedetti G, Press CA, Harrar D, Thomas AX, Steurer M, Sacks LD, Fox CK

Pediatr Crit Care Med (2025) · PubMed

ECMO/ECLSBrain InjuryNeurocritical Care

A quantitative EEG index for the recognition of arterial ischemic stroke in children

Caffarelli M, Karukonda V, Aghaeeaval M, McQuillen PS, Numis AL, Mackay MT, Press CA, Wintermark M, Fox CK, Amorim E

Clin Neurophysiol (2023) · DOI → · PubMed

qEEGStrokeEEG