Guillermo Gutierrez

Summary

Affiliation: George Washington University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Multinational, observational study of procalcitonin in ICU patients with pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicenter observational study
    Frank Bloos
    Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, 07747 Jena, Germany
    Crit Care 15:R88. 2011
  2. ncbi Intramucosal-arterial PCO2 gap does reflect tissue dysoxia
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Crit Care 7:243-4; author reply 245. 2003
  3. ncbi Air embolism as a cause of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case report
    Tarun Kapoor
    Department of Internal Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 7:R98-R100. 2003
  4. ncbi The riddle of hyperlactatemia
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    The George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N, W, Suite 5 427, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Crit Care 13:176. 2009
  5. ncbi Central venous to mixed venous blood oxygen and lactate gradients are associated with outcome in critically ill patients
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, N W, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
    Intensive Care Med 34:1662-8. 2008
  6. ncbi The concentration of oxygen, lactate and glucose in the central veins, right heart, and pulmonary artery: a study in patients with pulmonary hypertension
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20037, USA
    Crit Care 11:R44. 2007
  7. ncbi Automatic detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony by spectral analysis of airway flow
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, The George Washington University MFA, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Crit Care 15:R167. 2011
  8. ncbi Lactate concentration gradient from right atrium to pulmonary artery
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 9:R425-9. 2005
  9. ncbi Blood flow, not hypoxia, determines intramucosal PCO2
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 9:149-50. 2005
  10. ncbi Of hemorrhagic shock, spherical cows and Aloe vera
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
    Crit Care 8:406-7. 2004

Collaborators

  • Lakhmir S Chawla
  • Arnaldo Dubin
  • Frank Bloos
  • Vinayak Jha
  • Tarun Kapoor
  • Frank M Brunkhorst
  • Pierre Francois Laterre
  • Derek C Angus
  • Konrad Reinhart
  • Emanuel Rivers
  • Jean Louis Vincent
  • Richard P Dellinger
  • John C Marshall
  • Robert A Balk

Detail Information

Publications17

  1. ncbi Multinational, observational study of procalcitonin in ICU patients with pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicenter observational study
    Frank Bloos
    Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, 07747 Jena, Germany
    Crit Care 15:R88. 2011
    ..The intent of this study was to determine whether serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels are associated with prognosis, measured as organ dysfunctions and 28-day mortality, in patients with severe pneumonia...
  2. ncbi Intramucosal-arterial PCO2 gap does reflect tissue dysoxia
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Crit Care 7:243-4; author reply 245. 2003
  3. ncbi Air embolism as a cause of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case report
    Tarun Kapoor
    Department of Internal Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 7:R98-R100. 2003
    ..The interaction of air with the systemic arterial endothelium may have triggered the release of endothelium-derived cytokines, resulting in the physiologic response of systemic inflammatory response syndrome...
  4. ncbi The riddle of hyperlactatemia
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    The George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N, W, Suite 5 427, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Crit Care 13:176. 2009
    ..Understanding how these complex processes interact to produce elevations in lactate continues to be an important area of research...
  5. ncbi Central venous to mixed venous blood oxygen and lactate gradients are associated with outcome in critically ill patients
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, N W, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
    Intensive Care Med 34:1662-8. 2008
    ..These gradients (DeltaSO(2) and Delta[Lac]) may be positive or negative. We tested the hypothesis that positive DeltaSO(2) and Delta[Lac] are associated with improved survival in critically ill patients...
  6. ncbi The concentration of oxygen, lactate and glucose in the central veins, right heart, and pulmonary artery: a study in patients with pulmonary hypertension
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20037, USA
    Crit Care 11:R44. 2007
    ..We tested the hypothesis that Delta SO2 and Delta[Lac] result from mixing SVC and inferior vena cava (IVC) blood streams...
  7. ncbi Automatic detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony by spectral analysis of airway flow
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, The George Washington University MFA, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Crit Care 15:R167. 2011
    ..We compared an automatic method of patient-ventilator asynchrony monitoring, based on airway flow frequency analysis, to the asynchrony index (AI) determined visually from airway tracings...
  8. ncbi Lactate concentration gradient from right atrium to pulmonary artery
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 9:R425-9. 2005
    ..Our aim was to determine if the mixing of right atrial with coronary venous blood, having substantially lower [Lac], results in detectable decreases in [Lac] from the RA to the PA...
  9. ncbi Blood flow, not hypoxia, determines intramucosal PCO2
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care 9:149-50. 2005
    ..The prevention of increases in intestinal PCO2 in aggressively resuscitated septic animals supports the notion that tissue CO2 accumulation is a function of decreases in blood flow, not of tissue hypoxia...
  10. ncbi Of hemorrhagic shock, spherical cows and Aloe vera
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
    Crit Care 8:406-7. 2004
    ..The central question explored in this commentary is whether the beneficial effects of an Aloe vera derived drag-reducing polymer during hemorrhagic shock is due to its O2 radical scavenging properties or to changes in blood rheology...
  11. ncbi Clinical review: hemorrhagic shock
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    Crit Care 8:373-81. 2004
    ..Moreover, hemoglobin concentration should not be the only therapeutic guide in actively bleeding patients. Instead, therapy should be aimed at restoring intravascular volume and adequate hemodynamic parameters...
  12. ncbi A mathematical model of tissue-blood carbon dioxide exchange during hypoxia
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 169:525-33. 2004
    ..The results of the model support the notion that changes in tissue and venous blood CO(2) concentration during dysoxia reflect primarily alterations in vascular perfusion and not scarcity in cellular energy supply...
  13. ncbi Lack of equivalence between central and mixed venous oxygen saturation
    Lakhmir S Chawla
    The George Washington University MFA, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 5-404, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Chest 126:1891-6. 2004
    ..The decrease in So(2) between Scvo(2) to Svo(2) may result from the mixing of atrial and coronary sinus blood. As such, this difference may be a marker of myocardial O(2) consumption...
  14. ncbi Future shock?
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:1817-8. 2006
  15. ncbi Severe sepsis and septic shock: should blood be transfused to raise mixed venous oxygen saturation?
    Vinayak Jha
    Chest 131:1267-8; author reply 1268-9. 2007
  16. ncbi The unpretentious role of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in critical illness
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Crit Care Med 33:2423-4. 2005
  17. ncbi Lactic acidosis in sepsis: another commentary
    Guillermo Gutierrez
    Crit Care Med 33:2420-2. 2005