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Lena M. Napolitano is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with significant contributions in surgery, emergency medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has concentrated on several main topics throughout their career, including:

  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Abdominal Trauma and Injuries
  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

The publication record of Lena M. Napolitano includes contributions to various scientific journals with frequent appearances in:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care (16 publications)
  • Critical Care Medicine (7 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons (4 publications)
  • World Journal of Emergency Surgery (2 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (2 publications)

Recent papers associated with their research work are:

  • "Liver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines," 2020, World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • "AASLD Practice Guidance on Acute-on-chronic liver failure and the management of critically ill patients with cirrhosis," 2023, Hepatology
  • "Association Between Adherence to Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Patients With Traumatic Rib Fractures and Mortality Rates Among US Trauma Centers," 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • "Venous thrombosis epidemiology, pathophysiology, and anticoagulant therapies and trials in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection," 2020, Journal of Vascular Surgery Venous and Lymphatic Disorders
  • "Joint Society of Critical Care Medicine-Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Task Force Position Paper on the Role of the Intensivist in the Initiation and Management of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation," 2020, Critical Care Medicine

Lena M. Napolitano has collaborated frequently with several scientists in the field. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Raúl Coimbra
  • Kenji Inaba
  • Todd W. Costantini
  • Alí Salim
  • José J. Diaz

Best Publications

  • Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery.

    Dale W. Bratzler;E. Patchen Dellinger;Keith M. Olsen;Trish M. Perl

  • Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

    Andre C. Kalil;Mark L. Metersky;Michael Klompas;John Muscedere

  • Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.).

    Robert G. Martindale;Stephen A. McClave;Vincent W. Vanek;Mary McCarthy

  • Blood transfusion, independent of shock severity, is associated with worse outcome in trauma.

    Debra L. Malone;James Dunne;J. Kathleen Tracy;A. Tyler Putnam

  • Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection

    Robert G. Sawyer;Jeffrey A. Claridge;Avery B. Nathens;Ori D. Rotstein

  • Practice parameters for hemodynamic support of sepsis in adult patients: 2004 update.

    Steven M. Hollenberg;Tom S. Ahrens;Djillali Annane;Mark E. Astiz

  • Clinical Practice Guideline: Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Adult Trauma and Critical Care

    Lena M. Napolitano;Stanley Kurek;Fred A. Luchette;Howard L. Corwin

  • Surgical site infections: reanalysis of risk factors.

    Debra L. Malone;Thomas Genuit;J. Kathleen Tracy;Christopher Gannon

  • Clinical practice guideline: red blood cell transfusion in adult trauma and critical care.

    Lena M. Napolitano;Stanley Kurek;Fred A. Luchette;Gary L. Anderson

  • Perioperative anemia: an independent risk factor for infection, mortality, and resource utilization in surgery.

    James R. Dunne;Debra Malone;J.Kathleen Tracy;Christopher Gannon

  • Complications of Massive Transfusion

    Kristen C. Sihler;Lena M. Napolitano

  • Intensive-care patients with severe novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection - Michigan, June 2009.

    L. M. Napolitano;P. K. Park;K. C. Sihler;T. Papadimos

  • Tracheostomy: Epidemiology, Indications, Timing, Technique, and Outcomes

    Nora H Cheung;Lena M Napolitano

  • Trauma in the elderly: intensive care unit resource use and outcome.

    Michelle D. Taylor;J. Kathleen Tracy;Walter Meyer;Michael Pasquale

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

    Federico Coccolini;Giulia Montori;Fausto Catena;Yoram Kluger

  • Influence of triple-lumen central venous catheters coated with chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine on the incidence of catheter-related bacteremia

    S O Heard;M Wagle;E Vijayakumar;E Vijayakumar;S McLean

  • Aspiration-Induced lung injury

    Krishnan Raghavendran;Jean Nemzek;Lena M. Napolitano;Paul R. Knight

  • Epidemiology of sepsis in patients with traumatic injury.

    Tiffany Medlin Osborn;J Kathleen Tracy;James R. Dunne;Michael Pasquale

  • Bundles to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia: how valuable are they?

    Charity Wip;Lena Napolitano

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

    Federico Coccolini;Derek Roberts;Luca Ansaloni;Rao Ivatury

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Scalea
Thomas M. Scalea University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Luca Ansaloni
Luca Ansaloni University of Pavia
Raul Coimbra
Raul Coimbra Riverside University Health System - Medical Center
Robert H. Bartlett
Robert H. Bartlett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ari Leppäniemi
Ari Leppäniemi University of Helsinki
Fausto Catena
Fausto Catena Ospedale “M. Bufalini” di Cesena
Massimo Sartelli
Massimo Sartelli University of Macerata
Kjetil Søreide
Kjetil Søreide Stavanger University Hospital
Salomone Di Saverio
Salomone Di Saverio University of Insubria

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