Critital Care Medicine Associates

Rade B. Vukmir
MD, JD, FCCP, FACEP, FACHE
www.edexpert.com

• About
• Qualifications
• Services
• Medicolegal Consultation
• Administrative Locum
  Tenens Medical Director
• Medico-logical Expertise
• Risk Management
• Medical Legal Consultation
  Process
• Research & Publications
• Author
• Peer Review & Credentialing
• Lecture/Speakers Bureau
• Process Evaluation & Improvement
• Media Consultation

Research

Areas of research interest include study design, facilitation and scientific analysis:

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Emergency department management
• Cardiac emergencies
• Cardiac therapeutics
• Emergency department efficiency
• Acute airway management
• Infectious disease emergencies
• ICU outcome

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Journal Publications   

1.    Vukmir RB, Verdile VP, Weiss LD: Gout: A Polyarticular Symmetrical Presentation in an Elderly Female. Am J Emerg Med, January 1990; 8(1):43-5.

2.    Vukmir RB, Paris PM: The Three Rivers Regatta accident: An EMS perspective. Am J Emerg Med, January 1991;9(1):64-71.

3.    Vukmir RB, Stein KL: Torsades des pointes therapy with Phenytoin. Ann Emerg Med, February 199120(2):198-200.

4.    Vukmir RB, Yealy DM, Paris PM: Glucagon prehospital therapy for hypoglycemia. Ann Emerg Med 20(4):375-9, April 1991.

5.    Vukmir RB: Pyogenic hepatic abscess: A case report. Ann Emerg Med, April 1991; 20(4):421-3.

6.    Vukmir RB: Torsades des Pointes a review. Am J Emerg Med, May 1991;9(3):250-5.

7.    Vukmir RB: Low back pain. Am J Emerg Med, July 19919(4):328-335.

8.    Vukmir RB, Heller MB, Stein K: Confirmation of endotracheal tube placement: An infrared qualitative CO2 detector.Ann Emerg Med, July 1991;20(7):726-9.

9.    Vukmir RB: Aeromonas Hydrophilia: Myofascial necrosis and sepsis. Intensive Care Med, September 1992; 18:172-4.

10.    Vukmir RB, Kremen R, Dehart DA, Menegazzi J: Compliance with Emergency Department patient referral. Am J Emerg Med, September 1992; 10(5):413-417.

11.    Vukmir RB: Pharyngitis: Adult and pediatric disease. J Emerg Med, September-October 1992; 10:607-616.

12.    Vukmir RB: Emergency cardiac pacing: A review. Am J Emerg Med, March 1993; 11:166-176.

13.    Vukmir RB:, Kremen R, Ellis G, DeHart DA, Plewa MC, Menegazzi J: Compliance with emergency department patient referral: Effect of computerized discharge instructions. Ann Emerg Med, May 1993; 22:819-823.

14.    Vukmir RB: Pyogenic hepatic abscess: diagnosis, microbiology, treatment, prognosis: radiographic highlights. Am Family Phys, May 1, 1993.

15.    DeVita MA, Vukmir RB, Snyder JV, Graziano C: Procuring organs from a non heart beating cadaver: A case report. Kennedy Institute of Ethics J, December 1993; 31:371-385.

16.    Szalados JE, Vukmir RB: Acute adrenal insufficiency secondary to adrenal hemorrhage manifested as postoperative hypotension. Intensive Care Med, 1994; 20:216-218.

17.    Vukmir RB, Kusne S, Linden P, et al: Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis due to dactylaria constricta var gallopava in a liver transplant recipient: Successful therapy with a mphotericin B colloidal dispersion and itraconazole. Clinical Infectious Disease, October 1994; 19:714-719.

18.    Yearly DA, Paris PM, Vukmir RB: IRBs and consent. Ann Emerg Med, October 1994; 24(4).

19.    Vukmir RB, Bircher N, Radovsky A, Safar P: Sodium bicarbonate may improve outcome in dogs with brief or prolonged cardiac arrest. CCM, March 1995; 23(3): 515-522.

20.    Vukmir RB: Cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis. Am J Emerg Med, March 1995; 13(2):204-210.

21.    DeVita MA, Vukmir RB, Snyder JV, et al: Non heart beating organ donation: A reply to Campbell and Weber. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, March 1995; 5(1):43-49.

22.    Vukmir RB: Cardiac arrhythmia therapy. Am J Emerg Med, July 1995; 13(4):459-470.

23.    Vukmir RB, Bircher N, Safer P: Sodium bicarbonate in cardiac arrest: a reappraisal. Am J Emerg Med, March 1996; 14:192-206.

24.    Vukmir RB: Emergency medicine and critical care medicine: the collaborative model. Can J of Emerg Med, January 2001.

25.    Vukmir RB: Prehospital cardiac arrest and the adverse effect of male gender, but not age, on outcome. J Women’s Health, September 2003; 12(7):667-673.

26.    Vukmir RB: Prehospital cardiac arrest outcome is adversely associated with antiarrythmic agent use, but not associated with presented complaint or medical history. Emerg Med J, 2004; 21:95-98.

27.    Vukmir RB: The influence of urban, suburban, or rural locale on survival from prehospital cardiac arrest. Am J Emerg Med, March 2004; 22(2): 90-93.

28.    Vukmir RB: Witnessed arrest, but not bystander CPR improves prehospital cardiac arrest survival. Emerg Med J 2004 May; 21 (3):370-3.

29.    Vukmir RB: Does serum prolactin indicate the presence of seizure in the emergency department patient? J Neurology 2004; 251:736-739.

30.    Vukmir RB: Medical malpractice: managing the risk. Medicine and Law 2004; 23(3):495-513.

31.    Vukmir RB: Drug seeking behavior: A review. Amer J Drug & Alcohol Abuse 2004; 30(3):551-575.

32.    Vukmir RB: Survival and outcome from prehospital cardiac arrest. Internet J of Rescue Disaster Med 2004; 4(1).

33.    Vukmir RB: Obesity, but not age, is associated with worsened prehospital cardiac arrest survival. J of Nutrition & Environ Med 2005 March;15(1):1-8.

34.    Vukmir RB: Abdominal pain in a child associated with dental amalgam ingestion. Amer J Emerg Med 2005 May; 23(3):391-3.

35.    Vukmir RB: Diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction in critically ill trauma patients: The critical nature of end diastolic volume. Turkish J of Trauma & Emerg Surg 2005; 10(4):287-298.

36.   Vukmir RB: Survival from prehospital cardiac arrest is critically dependent upon response time. Resuscitation 2006 May;69(2):229-34

37.   Vukmir RB: Sodium bicarbonate improves outcome in prolonged prehospital cardiac arrest. Amer J Emerg Med 2006; 24 :156-161.

38.   Vukmir,RB: Customer Satisfaction, INT J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv, 2006;19 (1):8-31