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Dean Fergusson

Dean Fergusson

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Medicine

D-Index
123
Citations
62234
World Ranking
3319
National Ranking
140

Overview

Dean Fergusson is affiliated with the Ottawa Hospital in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, biochemistry, and neurology. Their work spans several subfields and integrates a range of clinical and research interests.

Their research portfolio includes studies on blood transfusion and management, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, resuscitation, cardiac anesthesia and surgical outcomes, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, and sepsis diagnosis and treatment.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19, 2021, Bristol Research (University of Bristol)
  • Accelerated surgery versus standard care in hip fracture (HIP ATTACK): an international, randomised, controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet
  • Transfusion thresholds for guiding red blood cell transfusion, 2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients with COVID-19: an open-label, randomized controlled trial, 2021, Nature Medicine

Fergusson frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, including Manoj M. Lalu, Alexis F. Turgeon, Daniel I. McIsaac, Alan Tinmouth, and Joshua Montroy. These coauthors have worked alongside Fergusson on multiple projects, reflecting a collaborative research network.

Their work appears regularly in several scholarly venues, demonstrating a consistent contribution to the medical research literature. Common publication outlets include:

  • BMJ Open
  • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie
  • Research Involvement and Engagement
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Cytotherapy

Dean Fergusson's primary field of study is medicine with significant emphasis on subfields such as surgery and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their research covers a variety of clinical topics, particularly those associated with blood management, coagulation disorders, and systemic illness response.

Best Publications

  • Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

    Andrew I R Maas;David K Menon;P David Adelson;Nada Andelic

  • Transfusion thresholds and other strategies for guiding allogeneic red blood cell transfusion.

    Jeffrey L Carson;Simon J Stanworth;Nareg Roubinian;Dean A Fergusson

  • Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion

    David A Henry;Paul A Carless;Annette J Moxey;Dianne O'Connell

  • A Comparison of Aprotinin and Lysine Analogues in High-Risk Cardiac Surgery

    Dean A. Fergusson;Paul C. Hébert;C. David Mazer;Stephen Fremes

  • Safety of Cell Therapy with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (SafeCell): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials

    Manoj M. Lalu;Lauralyn McIntyre;Lauralyn McIntyre;Christina Pugliese;Dean Fergusson

  • Tiotropium in combination with placebo, salmeterol, or fluticasone-salmeterol for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized trial.

    Shawn D Aaron;Katherine L Vandemheen;Dean Fergusson;François Maltais

  • Post-randomisation exclusions: the intention to treat principle and excluding patients from analysis

    Dean Fergusson;Shawn D Aaron;Gordon Guyatt;Paul Hébert

  • Association of Hydroxyethyl Starch Administration With Mortality and Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients Requiring Volume Resuscitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Ryan Zarychanski;Ahmed M. Abou-Setta;Alexis F. Turgeon;Brett L. Houston

  • Hypothermia Therapy after Traumatic Brain Injury in Children

    James S. Hutchison;Roxanne E. Ward;Jacques Lacroix;Paul C. Hébert

  • Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis

    Sonia S. Anand;Philip S. Wells;Dereck Hunt;Dereck Hunt;Pat Brill-Edwards

  • Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion

    Paul A Carless;David A Henry;Annette J Moxey;Dianne O'Connell

  • Assessing the quality of randomized trials: reliability of the Jadad scale.

    H D Clark;G A Wells;C Huët;F A McAlister

  • Clinical consequences of red cell storage in the critically ill

    Alan Tinmouth;Dean Fergusson;Ian Chin Yee;Paul C. Hébert

  • Restrictive or Liberal Red-Cell Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery

    C. David Mazer;Richard P. Whitlock;Dean A. Fergusson;Judith Hall

  • Age of Transfused Blood in Critically Ill Adults

    Jacques Lacroix;Paul C. Hébert;Dean A. Fergusson;Alan Tinmouth

  • Detection, evaluation, and management of preoperative anaemia in the elective orthopaedic surgical patient: NATA guidelines

    L T Goodnough;A Maniatis;P Earnshaw;G Benoni

  • Patient Blood Management: Recommendations From the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus Conference

    Markus M. Mueller;Hans Van Remoortel;Patrick Meybohm;Kari Aranko

  • Effect of Study Setting on Anticoagulation Control* A Systematic Review and Metaregression

    Carl van Walraven;Alison Jennings;Natalie Oake;Dean Fergusson

  • Daily Sedation Interruption in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients Cared for With a Sedation Protocol A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sangeeta Mehta;Lisa Burry;Dean Fergusson;Marilyn Steinberg

  • Overdiagnosis of asthma in obese and nonobese adults

    Shawn D. Aaron;Katherine L. Vandemheen;Louis-Philippe Boulet;R. Andrew McIvor

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Hutton
Brian Hutton Ottawa Hospital
Paul C. Hébert
Paul C. Hébert University of Alberta
Carl van Walraven
Carl van Walraven University of Ottawa
Jeremy M. Grimshaw
Jeremy M. Grimshaw Ottawa Hospital
Sangeeta Mehta
Sangeeta Mehta University of Toronto
Ian D. Graham
Ian D. Graham Ottawa Hospital
Shawn D. Aaron
Shawn D. Aaron Ottawa Hospital
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Maureen O. Meade
Maureen O. Meade McMaster University
Morris A. Blajchman
Morris A. Blajchman McMaster University

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