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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Simon Finfer is affiliated with the George Institute for Global Health in the United Kingdom and has a publication record primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Epidemiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Emergency Medicine, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main research topics addressed by Finfer include:

  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated extensively with Finfer are:

  • Naomi Hammond
  • John Myburgh
  • Balasubramanian Venkatesh
  • Paul J. Young
  • Anthony Delaney

Simon Finfer's work has been published in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Critical Care and Resuscitation
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • JAMA
  • Australian Critical Care
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent publications include:

  • Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990-2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study (2020, The Lancet)
  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection Among Patients in Intensive Care Units in 2017 (2020, JAMA)
  • Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults - A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis (2022, NEJM Evidence)
  • Association Between Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and In-Hospital Mortality in Intensive Care Unit Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation (2022, JAMA)
  • Patient Outcomes at Twelve Months after Early Decompressive Craniectomy for Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury in the Randomized DECRA Clinical Trial (2020, Journal of Neurotrauma)

Simon Finfer was recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients.

    Nice-Sugar Study Investigators;D. Chittock;S. Su;D. Blair

  • Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

    Kristina E Rudd;Sarah Charlotte Johnson;Kareha M Agesa;Katya Anne Shackelford

  • A comparison of albumin and saline for fluid resuscitation in the intensive care unit

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Julie French;John Myburgh

  • Hydroxyethyl starch or saline for fluid resuscitation in intensive care

    John A. Myburgh;Simon Finfer;Rinaldo Bellomo;Laurent Billot

  • Intensity of continuous renal-replacement therapy in critically ill patients.

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Alan Cass;Louise Cole

  • Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

    Ken Hillman;Jack Chen;Michelle Cretikos;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in adults with septic shock

    V. Marco Ranieri;B. Taylor Thompson;Philip S. Barie;Jean-François Dhainaut

  • Intensive insulin therapy and mortality among critically ill patients: a meta-analysis including NICE-SUGAR study data

    Donald E.G. Griesdale;Russell J. de Souza;Rob M. van Dam;Daren K. Heyland

  • Critical care services and 2009 H1N1 influenza in australia and new zealand.

    Steven A R Webb;Ville Yrjo Olavi Pettila;Ian M Seppelt;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Hypoglycemia and risk of death in critically ill patients.

    Simon R Finfer;Bette Liu;Dean R Chittock;Robyn Norton

  • Recognizing Sepsis as a Global Health Priority - A WHO Resolution.

    Konrad Reinhart;Ron Daniels;Niranjan Kissoon;Flavia R. Machado

  • Low-dose dopamine in patients with early renal dysfunction: a placebo-controlled randomised trial. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group.

    Rinaldo Bellomo;M R Chapman;Simon Finfer;K Hickling

  • Saline or Albumin for Fluid Resuscitation in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

    John Myburgh;D. James Cooper;Rinaldo Bellomo;Robyn Norton

  • Respiratory rate: the neglected vital sign.

    Michelle A Cretikos;Rinaldo Bellomo;Ken Hillman;Jack Chen

  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection Among Patients in Intensive Care Units in 2017.

    Jean Louis Vincent;Yasser Sakr;Mervyn Singer;Ignacio Martin-Loeches

  • Adjunctive Glucocorticoid Therapy in Patients with Septic Shock.

    Balasubramanian Venkatesh;Simon Finfer;Jeremy Cohen;Dorrilyn Rajbhandari

  • Adult-population incidence of severe sepsis in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units

    Simon Finfer;Rinaldo Bellomo;Jeffrey Lipman;Craig French

  • Sedation and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

    Michael C. Reade;Simon Finfer

  • Early Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients With Short-term Relative Contraindications to Early Enteral Nutrition: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Gordon S. Doig;Fiona Simpson;Elizabeth A. Sweetman;Simon R. Finfer

  • Withdrawal of mechanical ventilation in anticipation of death in the intensive care unit.

    Deborah Cook;Graeme Rocker;John Marshall;Peter Sjokvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo Monash University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Alan Cass
Alan Cass Charles Darwin University
John C. Marshall
John C. Marshall University of Toronto
Yaseen M. Arabi
Yaseen M. Arabi King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey Monash University
Andrew Rhodes
Andrew Rhodes St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Konrad Reinhart
Konrad Reinhart Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Ken Hillman
Ken Hillman University of New South Wales

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