Professor, Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine

General Surgery

Loring is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He researched medicine at University of Alabama Medical Center. University of Alabama Medical Center is ranked 37/17 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACS)". Loring is also a published physician. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: A 100% Departmental Mortality Review Improves Observed-to-Expected Mortality Ratios and University HealthSystem Consortium Rankings. He accepts Medicare.

Publications

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• A 100% Departmental Mortality Review Improves Observed-to-Expected Mortality Ratios and University HealthSystem Consortium Rankings.
• The deleterious effect of red blood cell storage on microvascular response to transfusion.
• Pediatric obesity and traumatic lower-extremity long-bone fracture outcomes.
• Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia, Not Diabetic Hyperglycemia, Is Associated With Higher Mortality in Trauma.
• Intubation Patterns and Outcomes in Patients With Computed Tomography-Verified Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Identifying risk for massive transfusion in the relatively normotensive patient: utility of the prehospital shock index.
• Prospective identification of patients at risk for massive transfusion: an imprecise endeavor.
• Duration of red cell storage influences mortality after trauma.
• Prospective implementation of an algorithm for bedside intravascular ultrasound-guided filter placement in critically ill patients.
• Lactate is a better predictor than systolic blood pressure for determining blood requirement and mortality: could prehospital measures improve trauma triage?
• Computed tomography identification of latent pseudoaneurysm after blunt splenic injury: pathology or technology?
• Epidemiology of tree stand-related injuries in the United States from 2000 to 2007.
• Management of colon wounds in the setting of damage control laparotomy: a cautionary tale.
• Blood utilization at a level I trauma center: is this as good as it gets?
• Transfusion and pneumonia in the trauma intensive care unit: an examination of the temporal relationship.
• Mechanism of hepatoprotection in proestrus female rats following trauma-hemorrhage: heme oxygenase-1-derived normalization of hepatic inflammatory responses.
• Body mass index affects time to definitive closure after damage control surgery.
• The association between blood alcohol level and infectious complications among burn patients.
• Traumatic brain injury is associated with the development of deep vein thrombosis independent of pharmacological prophylaxis.
• The relationship of blood product ratio to mortality: survival benefit or survival bias?
• Reassessment of the tri-modal mortality distribution in the presence of a regional trauma system.
• The impact of a vision screening law on older driver fatality rates.
• Comparison of severe injuries between powered and nonpowered scooters among children aged 2 to 12 in the United States.
• Transfusions in the less severely injured: does age of transfused blood affect outcomes?
• Age of transfused blood: an independent predictor of mortality despite universal leukoreduction.
• Closing the open abdomen: improved success with Wittmann Patch staged abdominal closure.
• Incidence of golf cart-related injury in the United States.
• Association between upper extremity injuries and side airbag availability.
• Durable improvements in efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the operating room.
• Malpractice risk: trauma care versus other surgical and medical specialties.
• Risk factors associated with adrenal insufficiency in severely injured burn patients.
• Agreement between prehospital and emergency department glasgow coma scores.
• Body mass index affects the need for and the duration of mechanical ventilation after thoracic trauma.
• Mitochondria play an important role in 17beta-estradiol attenuation of H(2)O(2)-induced rat endothelial cell apoptosis.
• 17beta-Estradiol modulates vasoconstriction induced by endothelin-1 following trauma-hemorrhage.
• Estrus cycle: influence on cardiac function following trauma-hemorrhage.
• Motor vehicle restraint system use and risk of spine injury.
• The contribution of opiate analgesics to the development of infectious complications in burn patients.
• Sex differences in mortality after burn injury: results of analysis of the National Burn Repository of the American Burn Association.
• Characteristics of burn patients injured in methamphetamine laboratory explosions.
• The epidemiology of intentional burns.
• Androstenediol ameliorates alterations in immune cells cytokine production capacity in a two-hit model of trauma-hemorrhage and sepsis.
• Estradiol improves cardiac and hepatic function after trauma-hemorrhage: role of enhanced heat shock protein expression.
• Trauma center resource consumption and mortality.
• PGC-1 upregulation via estrogen receptors: a common mechanism of salutary effects of estrogen and flutamide on heart function after trauma-hemorrhage.
• Cecal ligation and puncture.
• Gender differences in acute response to trauma-hemorrhage.
• The association between restraint system and upper extremity injury after motor vehicle collisions.
• The association between sex and mortality among burn patients as modified by age.
• Mechanism of salutary effects of estradiol on organ function after trauma-hemorrhage: upregulation of heme oxygenase.
• Seatbelt use during pregnancy: a comparison of women in two prenatal care settings.
• Transgenic prolactin-/- mice: effect of trauma-hemorrhage on splenocyte functions.
• Mechanism of salutary effects of androstenediol on hepatic function after trauma-hemorrhage: role of endothelial and inducible nitric oxide synthase.
• The impact of combined trauma and burns on patient mortality.
• The financial impact of delayed discharge at a level I trauma center.
• Motor vehicle mismatch-related spinal injury.
• Insights into the role of interleukin-6 in the induction of hepatic injury after trauma-hemorrhagic shock.
• The association between body mass index and diaphragm injury among motor vehicle collision occupants.
• Splenectomy differentially influences immune responses in various tissue compartments of the body.
• Mechanism of cardiac depression after trauma-hemorrhage: increased cardiomyocyte IL-6 and effect of sex steroids on IL-6 regulation and cardiac function.
• Estradiol's effect on portal response to endothelin-1 after trauma-hemorrhage.
• Salutary effects of androstenediol on cardiac function and splanchnic perfusion after trauma-hemorrhage.
• The effect of inhibition of a major cell signaling pathway following trauma hemorrhage on hepatic injury and interleukin 6 levels.
• Restraint use and lower extremity fractures in frontal motor vehicle collisions.
• The applicability of a computer model for predicting head injury incurred during actual motor vehicle collisions.
• Are the immune responses different in middle-aged and young mice following bone fracture, tissue trauma and hemorrhage?
• Role of IL-10 in regulating proinflammatory cytokine release by Kupffer cells following trauma-hemorrhage.
• Alpha1-acid-glycoprotein protects against trauma-hemorrhagic shock.
• Frequency of maxillofacial injuries in all-terrain vehicle collisions.
• Preexisting conditions and mortality in older trauma patients.
• Effect of restraint systems on maxillofacial injury in frontal motor vehicle collisions.
• Is seat belt use associated with fewer days of lost work after motor vehicle collisions?
• A focused educational intervention can promote the proper application of seat belts during pregnancy.
• Knowledge, beliefs, and practices concerning seat belt use during pregnancy.
• The influence of side airbags on the risk of head and thoracic injury after motor vehicle collisions.
• Gender differences in small intestinal endothelial function: inhibitory role of androgens.
• Cervical spine injury and restraint system use in motor vehicle collisions.
• Sex steroid-mediated regulation of macrophage/monocyte function in a two-hit model of trauma-hemorrhage and sepsis.
• The effect of state motorcycle licensing laws on motorcycle driver mortality rates.
• The evolution of chest computed tomography for the definitive diagnosis of blunt aortic injury: a single-center experience.
• Specific occupant and collision characteristics are associated with motor vehicle collision-related blunt cerebrovascular artery injury.
• Sex differences in hepatic heme oxygenase expression and activity following trauma and hemorrhagic shock.
• Therapy for calciphylaxis: an outcome analysis.
• Early versus delayed fixation of pelvic ring fractures.
• Association between side air bags and risk of injury in motor vehicle collisions with near-side impact.
• Differential fluid regulation during and after soft tissue trauma and hemorrhagic shock in males and proestrus females.
• Mechanism for normal splenic T lymphocyte functions in proestrus females after trauma: enhanced local synthesis of 17beta-estradiol.
• Administration of progesterone after trauma and hemorrhagic shock prevents hepatocellular injury.
• Differential alterations in intestinal permeability after trauma-hemorrhage.
• Gender dimorphic tissue perfusion response after acute hemorrhage and resuscitation: role of vascular endothelial cell function.
• Death during theft from electric utilities.
• The association between occupant restraint systems and risk of injury in frontal motor vehicle collisions.
• Endocrine targets in experimental shock.
• Occupant- and collision-related risk factors for blunt thoracic aorta injury.
• Common bile duct transection in blunt abdominal trauma: case report emphasizing mechanism of injury and therapeutic management.
• The association between gender and mortality among trauma patients as modified by age.
• Relationship between age and lower extremity fractures in frontal motor vehicle collisions.
• Motor vehicle crash-related mortality is associated with prehospital and hospital-based resource availability.
• Screening for venous thromboembolism in traumatic brain injury: limitations of D-dimer assay.
• Long-term trends in mortality according to age among adult burn patients.

Schools

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• University Va School Med

• University Al Hosps

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• University of Alabama Medical Center
• University of Virginia School of Medicine

Hospital

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• University of Alabama Hospital

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