Associate Professor, Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Louis H. Alarcon, MD
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Doctor Louis H. Alarcon, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACS)". Louis Alarcon is a published doctor. He published 53 publications, including: 'Inducible nitric oxide synthase in the liver: regulation and function.' Louis Alarcon accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Clinical gestalt and the prediction of massive transfusion after trauma.
- An abdominal computed tomography may be safe in selected hypotensive trauma patients with positive Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma examination.
- Trends in RBC Ordering and Use After Implementing Adaptive Alerts in the Electronic Computerized Physician Order Entry System.
- American College of Surgeons trauma center verification versus state designation: are Level II centers slipping through the cracks?
- Prehospital intravenous fluid is associated with increased survival in trauma patients.
- Waiver of consent in noninterventional, observational emergency research: the PROMMTT experience.
- Cryoprecipitate Use in the Prospective Observational Multicenter Major Trauma Transfusion study (PROMMTT).
- The impact of missing trauma data on predicting massive transfusion.
- Do-not-resuscitate orders in trauma patients may bias mortality-based effect estimates: an evaluation using the PROMMTT study.
- A latent class model for defining severe hemorrhage: experience from the PROMMTT study.
- Purposeful variable selection and stratification to impute missing Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma data in trauma research.
- Application of the Berlin definition in PROMMTT patients: the impact of resuscitation on the incidence of hypoxemia.
- Time-dependent prediction and evaluation of variable importance using superlearning in high-dimensional clinical data.
- Increasing time to operation is associated with decreased survival in patients with a positive FAST examination requiring emergent laparotomy.
- Clinical and mechanistic drivers of acute traumatic coagulopathy.
- Cryoprecipitate use in the PROMMTT study.
- Resuscitate early with plasma and platelets or balance blood products gradually: findings from the PROMMTT study.
- Early resuscitation intensity as a surrogate for bleeding severity and early mortality in the PROMMTT study.
- The association between air ambulance distribution and trauma mortality.
- Use of a massive transfusion protocol in nontrauma patients: activate away.
- The prospective, observational, multicenter, major trauma transfusion (PROMMTT) study: comparative effectiveness of a time-varying treatment with competing risks.
- Defining when to initiate massive transfusion: a validation study of individual massive transfusion triggers in PROMMTT patients.
- Predictors of acute posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following civilian trauma: Highest incidence and severity of symptoms after assault.
- Over reliance on computed tomography imaging in patients with severe abdominal injury: is the delay worth the risk?
- Incidental radiographic findings after injury: dedicated attention results in improved capture, documentation, and management.
- Delay to therapeutic interventional radiology postinjury: time is of the essence.
- Evaluation of a 15-year experience with splenic injuries in a state trauma system.
- Is outcome after blunt splenic injury in adults better in high-volume trauma centers?
- Defining present blood component transfusion practices in trauma patients: papers from the Trauma Outcomes Group.
- Profoundly abnormal initial physiologic and biochemical data cannot be used to determine futility in massively transfused trauma patients.
- A predictive model for mortality in massively transfused trauma patients.
- Inducible nitric oxide synthase in the liver: regulation and function.
- A normal platelet count may not be enough: the impact of admission platelet count on mortality and transfusion in severely injured trauma patients.
- Specific abbreviated injury scale values are responsible for the underestimation of mortality in penetrating trauma patients by the injury severity score.
- Crystalloid resuscitation improves survival in trauma patients receiving low ratios of fresh frozen plasma to packed red blood cells.
- The association of blood component use ratios with the survival of massively transfused trauma patients with and without severe brain injury.
- Variations between level I trauma centers in 24-hour mortality in severely injured patients requiring a massive transfusion.
- A high fresh frozen plasma: packed red blood cell transfusion ratio decreases mortality in all massively transfused trauma patients regardless of admission internation...
- Increased platelet:RBC ratios are associated with improved survival after massive transfusion.
- High ratios of plasma and platelets to packed red blood cells do not affect mortality in nonmassively transfused patients.
- Effect of high product ratio massive transfusion on mortality in blunt and penetrating trauma patients.
- Gender-based differences in mortality in response to high product ratio massive transfusion.
- Nitric oxide suppresses the expression of Bcl-2 binding protein BNIP3 in hepatocytes.
- Nitric oxide from the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) increases the expression of cytochrome P450 2E1 in iNOS-null hepatocytes in the absence of inflammatory st...
- Reducing interns'' work hours led to fewer attentional failures and serious medical errors in intensive care units.
- A DNA microarray study of nitric oxide-induced genes in mouse hepatocytes: implications for hepatic heme oxygenase-1 expression in ischemia/reperfusion.
- An FFP:PRBC transfusion ratio >/=1:1.5 is associated with a lower risk of mortality after massive transfusion.
- Black Hawk down: the evolution of resuscitation strategies in massive traumatic hemorrhage.
- Intensivists: don''t quit your day job...yet!
- Institutional protocol improves retrievable inferior vena cava filter recovery rate.
- Preinjury statin use is associated with a higher risk of multiple organ failure after injury: a propensity score adjusted analysis.
- Hepatic resection in the management of complex injury to the liver.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University PittsburghU Health Center Pittsburgh
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1306817705 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ALARCON |
| First Name Of The Provider | LOUIS |
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