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Peter Rhee is affiliated with New York Medical College in the United States and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in trauma and surgery. Their work spans a variety of specialized fields, with a primary focus on medicine and several key subfields including surgery, emergency medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, clinical psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics of their research include trauma and emergency care studies, abdominal trauma and injuries, pelvic and acetabular injuries, trauma management and diagnosis, abdominal surgery and complications, autopsy techniques and outcomes, and cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Peter Rhee has published numerous papers across prominent medical journals. Some recent publications include:

  • The small (14 Fr) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28-32 Fr) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized clinical trial, 2021, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Randomized Clinical Trial of 14-French (14F) Pigtail Catheters versus 28-32F Chest Tubes in the Management of Patients with Traumatic Hemothorax and Hemopneumothorax, 2021, World Journal of Surgery
  • Firearms: the leading cause of years of potential life lost, 2022, Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
  • How to maintain the readiness of forward deployed caregivers, 2021, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Early tracheostomy in patients with cervical spine injury reduces morbidity and improves resource utilization, 2020, The American Journal of Surgery

Their research has been published frequently in venues including the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, The American Surgeon, and the World Journal of Surgery.

Peter Rhee collaborates regularly with a core group of co-authors, including Kartik Prabhakaran, Rifat Latifi, Joshua Klein, Abbas Smiley, and Shekhar Gogna. This network has contributed to a substantial body of work in trauma and emergency medical care.

Best Publications

  • Damage control resuscitation: Directly addressing the early coagulopathy of trauma

    John B. Holcomb;Don Jenkins;Peter Rhee;Jay Johannigman

  • Preventable or potentially preventable mortality at a mature trauma center.

    Pedro G. R. Teixeira;Kenji Inaba;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Chelsea Brown

  • Increasing trauma deaths in the United States.

    Peter Rhee;Bellal Joseph;Viraj Pandit;Hassan Aziz

  • Advanced trauma life support, 8th edition, the evidence for change.

    John B. Kortbeek;Saud A. Al Turki;Jameel Ali;Jill A. Antoine

  • Survival after emergency department thoracotomy: review of published data from the past 25 years.

    Peter M Rhee;Peter M Rhee;Jose Acosta;Jose Acosta;Amy Bridgeman;Dennis Wang;Dennis Wang

  • Preventing renal failure in patients with rhabdomyolysis: do bicarbonate and mannitol make a difference?

    Carlos V.R. Brown;Peter Rhee;Linda Chan;Kelly Evans

  • The effect of trauma center designation and trauma volume on outcome in specific severe injuries

    Demetrios Demetriades;Mathew Martin;Ali Salim;Peter Rhee

  • Superiority of frailty over age in predicting outcomes among geriatric trauma patients: a prospective analysis

    Bellal Joseph;Viraj Pandit;Bardiya Zangbar;Narong Kulvatunyou

  • Selective nonoperative management of penetrating abdominal solid organ injuries.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Costas Constantinou;Carlos Brown

  • Hemorrhage Control in the Battlefield: Role of New Hemostatic Agents

    Hasan B. Alam;Hasan B. Alam;David Burris;Joseph A. DaCorta;Peter Rhee;Peter Rhee

  • Trauma fatalities: time and location of hospital deaths.

    Demetrios Demetriades;James Murray;Kiriakos Charalambides;Kathy Alo

  • Trauma Deaths in a Mature Urban Trauma System: Is “Trimodal” Distribution a Valid Concept?

    Demetrios Demetriades;Brian Kimbrell;Ali Salim;George Velmahos

  • Tissue oxygen saturation predicts the development of organ dysfunction during traumatic shock resuscitation

    Stephen M. Cohn;Avery B. Nathens;Frederick A. Moore;Peter Rhee

  • An evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

    Mark J. Seamon;Elliott R. Haut;Kyle Van Arendonk;Ronald R. Barbosa

  • High success with nonoperative management of blunt hepatic trauma: the liver is a sturdy organ.

    George C. Velmahos;Konstantinos Toutouzas;Randall Radin;Linda Chan

  • Predictors of mortality in geriatric trauma patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Ammar Hashmi;Irada Ibrahim-Zada;Peter Rhee;Hassan Aziz

  • Human neutrophil activation and increased adhesion by various resuscitation fluids.

    Peter Rhee;Dennis Wang;Paul Ruff;Brenda Austin

  • The impact of obesity on the outcomes of 1,153 critically injured blunt trauma patients

    Carlos V. R. Brown;Angela L. Neville;Peter Rhee;Ali Salim

  • Impact of Plasma Transfusion in Trauma Patients Who Do Not Require Massive Transfusion

    Kenji Inaba;Bernardino C. Branco;Peter Rhee;Lorne H. Blackbourne

  • Relationship between American College of Surgeons trauma center designation and mortality in patients with severe trauma (injury severity score > 15).

    Demetrios Demetriades;Matthew Martin;Ali Salim;Peter Rhee

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrios Demetriades
Demetrios Demetriades University of Southern California
Ali Salim
Ali Salim Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
George C. Velmahos
George C. Velmahos Harvard University
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham
Frederick A. Moore
Frederick A. Moore University of Florida
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
David B. Hoyt
David B. Hoyt American College of Surgeons
Martin A. Schreiber
Martin A. Schreiber Oregon Health & Science University
Andrew B. Peitzman
Andrew B. Peitzman University of Pittsburgh

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