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Bram Rochwerg

Bram Rochwerg

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Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
51073
World Ranking
14342
National Ranking
600

Overview

Bram Rochwerg is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada, contributing extensively to research in the field of medicine. Their primary areas of study include critical care and intensive care medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, emergency medicine, and surgery.

They have a significant body of work focused on critical care and intensive care medicine, with 121 publications in the subfield, alongside 99 publications in pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Other notable subfields include epidemiology (81 publications), emergency medicine (77 publications), and surgery (63 publications).

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bram Rochwerg include:

  • Shannon M. Fernando (66 collaborations)
  • Karen E. A. Burns (57 collaborations)
  • Deborah J. Cook (52 collaborations)
  • François Lamontagne (51 collaborations)
  • Ian Ball (38 collaborations)

Publications have been frequently featured in several venues such as:

  • Critical Care Medicine (36 publications)
  • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie (29 publications)
  • CHEST Journal (25 publications)
  • Intensive Care Medicine (18 publications)
  • Critical Care Explorations (18 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19," 2020, BMJ
  • "Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis," 2020, BMJ
  • "Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Association of Noninvasive Oxygenation Strategies With All-Cause Mortality in Adults With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure," 2020, JAMA
  • "The role for high flow nasal cannula as a respiratory support strategy in adults: a clinical practice guideline," 2020, Intensive Care Medicine

Best Publications

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

    Andrew Rhodes;Laura E. Evans;Waleed Alhazzani;Mitchell M. Levy

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU

    John W. Devlin;John W. Devlin;Yoanna Skrobik;Céline Gélinas;Dale M. Needham

  • An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Update of the 2011 Clinical Practice Guideline

    Ganesh Raghu;Bram Rochwerg;Yuan Zhang;Carlos A. Cuello Garcia

  • Official ERS/ATS clinical practice guidelines: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure

    Bram Rochwerg;Laurent Brochard;Laurent Brochard;Mark W. Elliott;Dean Hess

  • Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis.

    Reed Ac Siemieniuk;Jessica J Bartoszko;Long Ge;Dena Zeraatkar

  • A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

    Bram Rochwerg;Arnav Agarwal;Reed Ac Siemieniuk;Thomas Agoritsas

  • Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury.

    Starrt-Aki Investigators

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part I): Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) 2017

    Djillali Annane;Stephen M. Pastores;Bram Rochwerg;Wiebke Arlt

  • Advances in the GRADE approach to rate the certainty in estimates from a network meta-analysis

    Romina Brignardello-Petersen;Ashley Bonner;Paul E Alexander;Reed A Siemieniuk

  • Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-analysis

    Jetan H. Badhiwala;Farshad Nassiri;Waleed Alhazzani;Magdy H. Selim

  • GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks for adoption, adaptation, and de novo development of trustworthy recommendations: GRADE-ADOLOPMENT.

    Holger J. Schünemann;Wojtek Wiercioch;Jan Brozek;Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta

  • Approaches to interpreting and choosing the best treatments in network meta-analyses

    L. Mbuagbaw;L. Mbuagbaw;B. Rochwerg;R. Jaeschke;D. Heels-Andsell

  • American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy.

    Shannon M. Bates;Anita Rajasekhar;Saskia Middeldorp;Claire McLintock

  • High flow nasal cannula compared with conventional oxygen therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    B. Rochwerg;B. Rochwerg;D. Granton;D. X. Wang;Y. Helviz

  • Fluid Resuscitation in Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis

    Bram Rochwerg;Waleed Alhazzani;Anees Sindi;Diane Heels-Ansdell

  • Association of Noninvasive Oxygenation Strategies With All-Cause Mortality in Adults With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Bruno L Ferreyro;Bruno L Ferreyro;Federico Angriman;Federico Angriman;Laveena Munshi;Laveena Munshi;Lorenzo Del Sorbo;Lorenzo Del Sorbo

  • Effectiveness of therapeutic heparin versus prophylactic heparin on death, mechanical ventilation, or intensive care unit admission in moderately ill patients with covid-19 admitted to hospital: RAPID randomised clinical trial.

    Michelle Sholzberg;Grace H Tang;Hassan Rahhal;Musaad AlHamzah

  • Withholding versus Continuing Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers before Noncardiac Surgery: An Analysis of the Vascular events In noncardiac Surgery patIents cOhort evaluatioN Prospective Cohort.

    Pavel S. Roshanov;Bram Rochwerg;Ameen Patel;Omid Salehian

  • Prognostic Accuracy of the Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for Mortality in Patients With Suspected Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Shannon M. Fernando;Alexandre Tran;Monica Taljaard;Wei Cheng

  • Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Critical Illness-Related Corticosteroid Insufficiency (CIRCI) in Critically Ill Patients (Part I): Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) 2017

    Annane D;Pastores Sm;Rochwerg B;Arlt W

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Per Olav Vandvik
Per Olav Vandvik University of Oslo
Djillali Annane
Djillali Annane University of Paris-Saclay
Reem A. Mustafa
Reem A. Mustafa University of Kansas
Maureen O. Meade
Maureen O. Meade McMaster University
Roman Jaeschke
Roman Jaeschke McMaster University
Holger J. Schünemann
Holger J. Schünemann Humanitas University
Lehana Thabane
Lehana Thabane McMaster University
Robert A. Fowler
Robert A. Fowler Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

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