ANTONIO E. MUNIZ, M.D.

Present position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

Address:
Medical College of Virginia
401 N 12th Street
Richmond, VA 23298-0525
Email AEMUNIZ@aol.com

Curriculum Vitae:

Current professional and academic appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

Undergraduate medical education:
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

Postgraduate medical education:
Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University and Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA.

Board certification:
Emergency Medicine
Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Clinical interests:

Other interests:

Research:
Fever in Infants and children, pediatric sickle cell disease, pediatric urinary tract infections, pain management, pediatric orthopedic injuries, pediatric abdominal pain, pediatric bronchiolitis and asthma, pediatric pneumonia, viral meningitis, ataxia, and corticosteroids in clinical practice.

Recent publications:

1. Muñiz AE: McDonough KH: Function of Isolated Hearts from Septic, Saline- Infused, and Septic, Alcohol-Infused Rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 1991; 15: 1067 - 1071.

2. Muñiz AE: Endotracheal Drug Administration. JAMA 1993; 269: 2628.

3. Muñiz AE: Temafloxacin: An Unusual Overdose in a Child. Pediatric Emergency Care 1996; 12 (3): 215-216.

4. Muñiz AE, Joffe M: Foreign body: aspirated or ingested. Contemporary Pediatrics 1997; 14 (12): 78-103; and J Am Acad Physician Assistants 1999; 12 (6): 23-46.

5. Muñiz AE: Scapular Dislocation. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 1998, 16: 690-691.

6. Muñiz AE: Unusual Wrist Pain: Pisiform Dislocation and Fracture. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 1999; 17: 78-79.

7. Weiss SJ, Muñiz AE, Ernst AA, Lipton HL: The Physiological Response to Norepinephrine During Hypothermia and Rewarming. Resuscitation 1998; 38: 189-195.

8. Muñiz AE, Belfer RA: Atlantoaxial Rotary Subluxation in Children. Pediatric Emergency Care 1999; 15: 25-29.

9. Muñiz AE, Holstege C: Acute Myocardial Infarction Associated with Sildenafil (Viagra) Ingestion. Accepted for publication by American J Emerg Med, 1999.

10. Weiss SJ, Lippton HJ, Muñiz AE, Meiselmann H, May W: The Effect of prior hyppothermia on the physiological response to norepinephrine. Accepted for publication by Resuscitation.

11. Muñiz Arias AE: La Ingestion de cuerpos extraños. Médicos Interamericano 1999; 18: 546-551.

12. Muñiz AE: Prochloperazine Induced Extrapyramidal Effects Mimicking Meningitis in a Child. Accepted for publication by the South Med J.

13. Muñiz AE: Delayed Presentation of an Intracranial Abscess following a Sledding Accident. Accepted for publication by the American J Emerg Med.

14. Muñiz AE: An Unusual cause of Abdominal Pain in Children: Cardiac Tamponade. Accepted for publication by the Can Emerg Med J.

15. Muñiz AE, Evan T: Chronic Paronychia, Osteomyelitis,and Epidural Abscess in a child with Blastomycosis. Accepted for publication by the J Emerg Med.

16. Muñiz AE: Management of Febrile Infants and Children ages 3 to 36 months by Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Physicians: Compliance with Practice Guidelines. Accepted for publication by Pediatric Emergency care.

17. Dunbar LM, Gregg KJ, Muñiz AE, George VT: A Comparison of Intravenous Fenoldopam versus Sodium Nitroprusside in Patients with Severe Hypertension (Submitted to Annals of Emergency Medicine).