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Raul Coimbra is affiliated with Riverside University Health System - Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Surgery and Emergency Medicine. Subfields of study also include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

Their work covers a range of main topics including Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries, Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management, Abdominal Trauma and Injuries, Trauma Management and Diagnosis, and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation.

Raul Coimbra has contributed extensively to academic literature, with frequent publications in specific venues such as:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • The American Surgeon
  • European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Significant recent papers featuring their work 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
  • "Liver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines" (2020), World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • "Acute mesenteric ischemia: updated guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery" (2022), World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authorships with Ernest E. Moore, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni, and Belinda De Simone.

Raul Coimbra has contributed to books published by Springer International Publishing, including titles such as:

  • Infections in Surgery (2021)
  • Thoracic Surgery for the Acute Care Surgeon (2020)
  • Postinjury Multiple Organ Failure (2022)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection

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

  • Wses Jerusalem Guidelines For Diagnosis And Treatment Of Acute Appendicitis

    Salomone Di Saverio;Arianna Birindelli;Micheal D. Kelly;Fausto Catena

  • 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

  • 2016 WSES guidelines on acute calculous cholecystitis

    L. Ansaloni;M. Pisano;F. Coccolini;A.B. Peitzmann

  • 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

  • 2013 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

    Massimo Sartelli;Pierluigi Viale;Fausto Catena;Luca Ansaloni

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

    Federico Coccolini;Giulia Montori;Fausto Catena;Yoram Kluger

  • The effect of age on functional outcome in mild traumatic brain injury: 6-Month report of a prospective multicenter trial

    Anne C. Mosenthal;David H. Livingston;Robert F. Lavery;Margaret M. Knudson

  • Out-of-Hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Eileen M. Bulger;Karen J. Brasel;Martin Schreiber;Jeffrey D. Kerby

  • Complicated intra-abdominal infections worldwide: the definitive data of the CIAOW Study

    Massimo Sartelli;Fausto Catena;Luca Ansaloni;Federico Coccolini

  • Out-of-hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation After Traumatic Hypovolemic Shock: A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial

    Eileen M. Bulger;Susanne May;Jeffery D. Kerby;Scott Emerson

  • 2017 WSES guidelines on colon and rectal cancer emergencies: obstruction and perforation

    Michele Pisano;Luigi Zorcolo;Cecilia Merli;Stefania Cimbanassi

  • 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

  • Hypertonic saline resuscitation diminishes lung injury by suppressing neutrophil activation after hemorrhagic shock.

    Niren Angle;David B. Hoyt;Raul Coimbra;Forrest Liu

  • 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

  • Hypertonic Saline Resuscitation Decreases Susceptibility to Sepsis after Hemorrhagic Shock

    Raul Coimbra;David B. Hoyt;Wolfgang G. Junger;Niren Angle

  • Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: resuscitative thoracotomy.

    Clay Cothren Burlew;Ernest E. Moore;Frederick A. Moore;Raul Coimbra

  • Both hypoxemia and extreme hyperoxemia may be detrimental in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

    Daniel P. Davis;William Meade;Michael J. Sise;Frank Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Hoyt
David B. Hoyt American College of Surgeons
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Ari Leppäniemi
Ari Leppäniemi University of Helsinki
Luca Ansaloni
Luca Ansaloni University of Pavia
Fausto Catena
Fausto Catena Ospedale “M. Bufalini” di Cesena
Massimo Sartelli
Massimo Sartelli University of Macerata
Andrew Baird
Andrew Baird University of California, San Diego
Salomone Di Saverio
Salomone Di Saverio University of Insubria
George C. Velmahos
George C. Velmahos Harvard University
William F. Loomis
William F. Loomis University of California, San Diego

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