Sentences with phrase «critical care physician»

As a retired critical care physician, I frequently worked with patients near death.

«Some hospitals and physicians have routinely used body cooling for all patients who experience cardiac arrest because they believed it might lead to better outcomes,» says lead author Frank Moler, M.D., the study principal investigator and pediatric critical care physician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

The Pittsburgh research team, led by critical care physician Mark Gladwin, was originally studying its function when they noticed that isolated neuroglobin molecules almost always had CO, a natural byproduct of hemoglobin breakdown, bound to them.

Previous studies have suggested that having more critical care physicians providing care, earlier initiation of antibiotics, more targeted delivery of intravenous fluids and more gentle mechanical ventilation may improve outcomes of patients with severe sepsis.

«There is no animal model of a near - death experience,» says critical care physician Sam Parnia of Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.

In search of early markers of lung cancer, pulmonary and critical care physicians Avrum Spira and Jerome Brody of the Boston Medical Center sampled bronchial tube epithelial cells from 85 people.

Through collaboration with subspecialists, including critical care physicians, radiologists and emergency medicine physicians, the neurosciences team provides comprehensive care for patients to determine neurological diseases, injuries and issues interfering with critical neurological functions.

Recently her practice used search firms to help find a pulmonary critical care physician and staff a new anesthesiology department.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The Australian authors of one study concluded: «A protocol including E-CPR instituted by critical care physicians... is feasible and associated with a relatively high survival rate.»

Though McLaughlin is now a full time abstract artist, he initially trained as a pediatric critical care physician, an influence still quite palpable in his work.

Joshua Landy, a critical care physician, first saw the potential for a photo - sharing tool while researching online medical education as a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the summer of 2012.

Dr. Afshar is a pulmonologist, critical care physician and epidemiologist.

«We found that not only do these biomarkers predict the development of AKI but, at high levels, they also tell us about long - term prognosis,» said senior investigator John Kellum, M.D., a critical care physician at UPMC and director of the Center for Critical Care Nephrology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Everyone who collaborated on the project — including dietitians, pharmacists, statisticians, critical care physicians, and computer scientists — participated on a largely voluntary basis without significant funding to explore the role of the microbiome in ICU medicine, says Wischmeyer.

Known as a critical care air transport team, each consists of a critical care physician, a critical care nurse, and a respiratory therapist.

«We need further research to confirm these findings and to look at possible biological mechanisms,» said lead author Dr. Michaël Chassé, an assistant professor at Université Laval and a critical care physician at CHU de Québec - Université Laval.

Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care physicians at the University of Michigan focus on respiratory disorders and critical illnesses (conditions such as shock, respiratory failure, and multiple organ failure), providing patient education, expert diagnostic testing, the newest treatments, and follow - up care, treating the whole person, and creating individualized plans of care to meet each patient's needs.

It is directed towards neuro - intensivists, intensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, researchers, and critical care physicians and nurses treating critically ill patients with acute neurological disorders.