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Andrew W. Kirkpatrick

Andrew W. Kirkpatrick

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Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
38395
World Ranking
9570
National Ranking
378

Overview

Andrew W. Kirkpatrick is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research primarily concentrates on medicine, with a significant focus on surgery, emergency medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers various topics within these fields, notably:

  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
  • Abdominal Surgery and Complications
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Hernia repair and management

Frequent publication venues for their work include the World Journal of Emergency Surgery, Canadian Journal of Surgery, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, The Ultrasound Journal, and PubMed.

Recent notable papers authored include:

  • Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines (2020), World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • 2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis (2020), World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • 2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting (2020), World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • Perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer: WSES guidelines (2020), World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • New International Guidelines and Consensus on the Use of Lung Ultrasound (2022), Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Collaborators frequently working with Andrew W. Kirkpatrick include Federico Coccolini, Luca Ansaloni, Massimo Sartelli, Ernest E. Moore, and Fikri M. Abu-Zidan.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to books published by Springer International Publishing, including titles such as Compartment Syndrome (2020) and Postinjury Multiple Organ Failure (2022).

Best Publications

  • International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound.

    Giovanni Volpicelli;Mahmoud Elbarbary;Michael Blaivas;Daniel A. Lichtenstein

  • Results from the International Conference of Experts on Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. II. Recommendations.

    Manu L. N. G Malbrain;Michael L Cheatham;Andrew Kirkpatrick;Michael Sugrue

  • Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

    Andrew W Kirkpatrick;Derek J Roberts;Jan De Waele;Roman Jaeschke

  • Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines

    Salomone Di Saverio;Salomone Di Saverio;Mauro Podda;Belinda De Simone;Marco Ceresoli

  • Hand-held thoracic sonography for detecting post-traumatic pneumothoraces: the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (EFAST).

    A W. Kirkpatrick;M Sirois;K B. Laupland;D Liu

  • 2019 WSES guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis

    Ari Leppäniemi;Matti Tolonen;Antonio Tarasconi;Helmut Segovia-Lohse

  • Fluid overload, de-resuscitation, and outcomes in critically ill or injured patients: a systematic review with suggestions for clinical practice.

    Manu L N G Malbrain;Paul E Marik;Ine Witters;Colin Cordemans

  • The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry: Data on contemporary utilization and outcomes of aortic occlusion and resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA)

    Joseph J DuBose;Thomas M Scalea;Megan Brenner;Dimitra Skiada

  • The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

    Massimo Sartelli;Alain Chichom-Mefire;Francesco M. Labricciosa;Timothy Hardcastle

  • Traumatic pneumothorax detection with thoracic US: correlation with chest radiography and CT--initial experience.

    Kevin R. Rowan;Andrew W. Kirkpatrick;David Liu;Kevin E. Forkheim

  • Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2017 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery ASBO working group

    Richard P. G. ten Broek;Pepijn Krielen;Salomone Di Saverio;Federico Coccolini

  • Pelvic trauma: WSES classification and guidelines

    Federico Coccolini;Philip F. Stahel;Giulia Montori;Walter Biffl

  • Splenic trauma: WSES classification and guidelines for adult and pediatric patients

    Federico Coccolini;Giulia Montori;Fausto Catena;Yoram Kluger

  • Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Bedside General and Cardiac Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Patients—part Ii: Cardiac Ultrasonography

    Alexander Levitov;Heidi L. Frankel;Michael Blaivas;Andrew W. Kirkpatrick

  • 2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis

    Michele Pisano;Niccolò Allievi;Kurinchi Gurusamy;Giuseppe Borzellino

  • Polyclonal intravenous immunoglobulin for the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock in critically ill adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Kevin B. Laupland;Andrew W. Kirkpatrick;Anthony Delaney

  • 2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

    Massimo Sartelli;Dieter G. Weber;Yoram Kluger;Luca Ansaloni

  • The open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients: WSES guidelines

    Federico Coccolini;Derek Roberts;Luca Ansaloni;Rao Ivatury

  • Perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer: WSES guidelines

    Antonio Tarasconi;Federico Coccolini;Walter L. Biffl;Matteo Tomasoni

  • Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.

    Jan J. De Waele;Inneke De Laet;Andrew W. Kirkpatrick;Eric Hoste

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin B. Laupland
Kevin B. Laupland Queensland University of Technology
Ari Leppäniemi
Ari Leppäniemi University of Helsinki
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Luca Ansaloni
Luca Ansaloni University of Pavia
Fausto Catena
Fausto Catena Ospedale “M. Bufalini” di Cesena
Massimo Sartelli
Massimo Sartelli University of Macerata
Rao R Ivatury
Rao R Ivatury Virginia Commonwealth University
Raul Coimbra
Raul Coimbra Riverside University Health System - Medical Center
Salomone Di Saverio
Salomone Di Saverio University of Insubria
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California

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