Patricia Gerritsen

Patricia Gerritsen is an Intensive Care Researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center's Department of Anesthesiology, specializing in critical care applications of medical imaging and decision-making systems. Her work bridges emergency medicine and diagnostic technology.

Her research focuses on Point-of-Care Ultrasound implementation in prehospital settings, emergency decision-making protocols, and cardiovascular diagnostics. Key contributions include validation of ultrasound-guided triage systems and analysis of public defibrillator accessibility. The fingerprint analysis shows consistent expertise in Prospective Cohort Studies (100%), Decision Making (100%), and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (100%) within medical contexts.

Her publication record demonstrates sustained impact across three decades, with the 1989 intravascular imaging study accumulating 112 Scopus citations and recent work on prehospital ultrasound (2023) showing significant policy relevance including reference in governmental health guidelines.