Associate Professor, Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Lewis J. Kaplan, MD
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Dr. Lewis J. Kaplan works in the field of General Surgery. He researched medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is ranked 74 in research and 67 in primary care medicine He has 2 awards "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FCCM)". Lewis Kaplan has written publications. He has 99 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Expression of AP-2 transcription factors in human breast cancer correlates with the regulation of multiple growth factor signalling pathways.'
Publications
- Ladder advancement for hospital-based physician assistants: A timely idea.
- Topical Hemostatic Therapy in Surgery: Bridging the Knowledge and Practice Gap.
- Using the Rothman index to predict early unplanned surgical intensive care unit readmissions.
- The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Suspected Appendicitis in Pregnancy : Shortened Length of Stay Without Increase in Hospital Charges.
- Biofilm: basic principles, pathophysiology, and implications for clinicians.
- Bacteremia and Empyema Caused by Shewanella algae in a Trauma Patient.
- Babesia microti Infection Presenting as Acute Splenic Laceration.
- Repositioning endotracheal tubes in the intensive care unit: depth changes poorly correlate with postrepositioning radiographic location.
- The role of fibrinogen in massive injury.
- Providing care for critically ill surgical patients: challenges and recommendations.
- Re: What's in a name? Mechanical ventilation is at the mercy of the operator.
- Routine nasogastric decompression in small bowel obstruction: is it really necessary?
- When the ICU is the operating room.
- Ethical Considerations in Embedding a Surgeon in a Military or Civilian Tactical Team.
- Compared to conventional ventilation, airway pressure release ventilation may increase ventilator days in trauma patients.
- Abdominal compartment syndrome: risk factors, diagnosis, and current therapy.
- Management of Peri-operative Complications.
- Lessons learned from airway pressure release ventilation.
- Risk of venous thromboembolism after spinal cord injury: not all levels are the same.
- Can acute care surgeons perform emergency colorectal procedures with good outcomes?
- Airway pressure release ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Development of a computed tomography-based scoring system for necrotizing soft-tissue infections.
- Initiating Safe Oral Feeding in Critically Ill Intensive Care and Step-Down Unit Patients Based on Passing a 3-Ounce (90 Milliliters) Water Swallow Challenge.
- Routine or protocol evaluation of trauma patients with suspected syncope is unnecessary.
- Standards for education and credentialing in critical care medicine.
- Simulation training in central venous catheter insertion: improved performance in clinical practice.
- Fluids, pH, ions and electrolytes.
- Normative postpartum intraabdominal pressure: potential implications in the diagnosis of abdominal compartment syndrome.
- The status of massive transfusion protocols in United States trauma centers: massive transfusion or massive confusion?
- Contrast-induced nephropathy in elderly trauma patients.
- Pulseless electrical activity, focused abdominal sonography for trauma, and cardiac contractile activity as predictors of survival after trauma.
- Blunt cerebrovascular trauma: distal internal carotid dissection.
- Uncovering system errors using a rapid response team: cross-coverage caught in the crossfire.
- A physicochemical approach to acid-base balance in critically ill trauma patients minimizes errors and reduces inappropriate plasma volume expansion.
- Trauma team oversight improves efficiency of care and augments clinical and economic outcomes.
- Comparison of acid-base models for prediction of hospital mortality after trauma.
- Abdominal compartment syndrome.
- Endotracheal intubation: the role of sterility.
- When are new graduate nurses competent in the intensive care unit?
- Abdominal compartment syndrome: clinical aspects and monitoring.
- Another nail in albumin's coffin.
- Pitfalls of implementing acute care surgery.
- Ethical imperatives in staffing and managing a trauma intensive care unit.
- Resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock: fluid selection and infusion strategy drives unmeasured ion genesis.
- Immune effects of resuscitation with HBOC-201, a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, in swine with moderately severe hemorrhagic shock from controlled hemorrhage.
- What price for general surgery?
- Major vascular injury after laparoscopic tubal ligation.
- Tracheal access: on the cusp of a decision?
- It's all in the charge ...
- Initial pH, base deficit, lactate, anion gap, strong ion difference, and strong ion gap predict outcome from major vascular injury.
- Oxygen debt criteria quantify the effectiveness of early partial resuscitation after hypovolemic hemorrhagic shock.
- Critically reappraising the literature-driven practice of analgesia administration for acute abdominal pain in the emergency room prior to surgical evaluation.
- Mechanical ventilation after injury.
- To dose or not to dose: that is the (starch) question ...
- Clinical review: Acid-base abnormalities in the intensive care unit -- part II.
- Amelioration of increased intensive care unit service readmission rate after implementation of work-hour restrictions.
- Bovine polymerized hemoglobin versus Hextend resuscitation in a swine model of severe controlled hemorrhagic shock with delay to definitive care.
- Bovine polymerized hemoglobin (hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier-201) resuscitation in three swine models of hemorrhagic shock with militarily relevant delayed evacuatio...
- Risk factors for pressure ulcer development in a best practice surgical intensive care unit.
- Airway pressure release ventilation increases cardiac performance in patients with acute lung injury/adult respiratory distress syndrome.
- Perioperative pulmonary complications.
- Trauma evaluation and resuscitation.
- A hemoglobin based oxygen carrier, bovine polymerized hemoglobin (HBOC-201) versus Hetastarch (HEX) in an uncontrolled liver injury hemorrhagic shock swine model with ...
- Hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC-201) and escalating doses of recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) as a novel pre-hospital resuscitation fluid in a swine model of sev...
- Can preclinical medical students be integrated into the continuing medical education process by instructing prehospital care providers?
- Classification of adverse events occurring in a surgical intensive care unit.
- Start with a subjective assessment of skin temperature to identify hypoperfusion in intensive care unit patients.
- Fluids for prevention and management of acute kidney injury.
- Acid-base balance analysis: a little off target.
- Cryptococcal myositis and vasculitis: an unusual necrotizing soft tissue infection.
- Anatomical variant found during catheter insertion.
- Percutaneous drainage of recurrent pneumothoraces and pneumatoceles.
- Thoracic compartment syndrome.
- Atlanto-occipital dislocation: an unusual lethal airbag injury.
- Gastric bezoar following penetrating abdominal injury. Diagnosis and endoscopic therapy.
- Improved emergency department efficiency with a three-tier trauma triage system.
- Delayed closed reduction of rotatory atlantoaxial dislocation: case report and literature review.
- Expression of AP-2 transcription factors in human breast cancer correlates with the regulation of multiple growth factor signalling pathways.
- Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor overexpression mediates cellular radioresistance and local breast cancer recurrence after lumpectomy and radiation.
- Low incidence of positive amnionic fluid cultures in preterm labor at 27-32 weeks in the absence of clinical evidence of chorioamnionitis.
- The phosphocreatine overshoot occurs independent of myocardial work.
- Ptosis and cataract surgery. A multivariant computer analysis of a prospective study.
- Death after injury: where does responsibility lie?
- A system for working with unidentified trauma patients.
- Severe measles in immunocompromised patients.
- Video recording trauma resuscitations: a guide to system set-up, personnel concerns, and legal issues.
- System improvements for the use of neuromuscular blocking agents.
- Voriconazole is safe and effective as prophylaxis for early and late fungal infections following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Aortic pseudo-aneurysm with Aspergillus aortitis. An unusual complication of coronary bypass surgery.
- Reversible injury: creatinine kinase recovery restores bioenergetics and function.
- Ischemic preconditioning preserves end-ischemic ATP, enhancing functional recovery and coronary flow during reperfusion.
- Impact of intensive PBSC mobilization therapy on outcomes following auto-SCT for non-Hodgkin''s lymphoma.
- Silicone injection management of diabetic foot ulcers: a possible model for prevention of pressure ulcers.
- Perineal hernia: an undescribed complication following sacrectomy.
- Necrotizing fasciitis: an uncommon consequence of pressure ulceration.
- Low-dose chemotherapy with central nervous system prophylaxis and zidovudine maintenance in AIDS-related lymphoma. A prospective multi-institutional trial.
- Food predictors of plasma beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol: validation of a food frequency questionnaire.
- Protecting myocardial creatine kinase activity during reperfusion improves bioenergetics and contractile function.
Schools
UmdnjRobert Wood Johnson Medical School
Med College Pa
University Pittsburgh Mc
Franklin and Marshall College
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FCCM)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Hospital
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Yale-New Haven Hospital -
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Hospital -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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