Intensive care unit telemedicine: alternate paradigm for providing continuous intensivist careB A Rosenfeld
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 28:3925-31. 2000
..We evaluated the feasibility of using telemedicine as a means of achieving 24-hr intensivist oversight and improved clinical outcomes...
Organizational characteristics of intensive care units related to outcomes of abdominal aortic surgeryP J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287 7294, USA
JAMA 281:1310-7. 1999
..Morbidity and mortality rates in intensive care units (ICUs) vary widely among institutions, but whether ICU structure and care processes affect these outcomes is unknown...
In vitro hypothermia enhances platelet GPIIb-IIIa activation and P-selectin expressionN Faraday
Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anesthesiology 88:1579-85. 1998
..To clarify the effect of temperature on intrinsic platelet function, platelet GPllb-IIIa activation and P-selectin expression were assessed under normothermic and hypothermic conditions in vitro...
Bundle-branch block as a risk factor in noncardiac surgeryT Dorman
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:1149-52. 2000
..Despite extensive data examining perioperative risk in patients with coronary artery disease, little attention has been devoted to the implications of conduction system abnormalities...
Neuroendocrine stress hormones do not recreate the postoperative hypercoagulable stateB A Rosenfeld
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anesth Analg 86:640-5. 1998
..Alternatively, these five hormones caused increased levels of fibrinolytic proteins (tissue plasminogen activator) and endogenous anticoagulants (protein C antigen and activity)...
Leukocytes can enhance platelet-mediated aggregation and thromboxane release via interaction of P-selectin glycoprotein ligand 1 with P-selectinN Faraday
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anesthesiology 94:145-51. 2001
..The aims of this study were to determine the ability of leukocytes to modulate platelet agonist--induced aggregation and secretion in the blood milieu, and to investigate the role of P-selectin and PSGL-1 in mediating these responses...
Nicardipine versus nitroprusside for breakthrough hypertension following carotid endarterectomyT Dorman
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Clin Anesth 13:16-9. 2001
..To evaluate the effectiveness of nicardipine and nitroprusside for breakthrough hypertension following carotid endarterectomy...