Dr. Neal H. Cohen MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Neal Cohen is a critical care surgeon practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Cohen specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Cohen has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1971
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Critical Care Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Continuous renal replacement therapy: anesthetic implications.
- How should patients feel about prolonged mechanical ventilation? Can we predict their choices, and if so, should we?
- Assessing futility of medical interventions--is it futile?
- Anesthetic depth is not (yet) a predictor of mortality!
- General anesthesia in the intensive care unit? Is it ready for "prime time"?
- The impact of productivity-based incentives on faculty salary-based compensation.
- A low-volume, low-pressure tracheal tube may not solve the problem!
- Crisis in critical care: training and certifying future intensivists.
- Ethics update: lessons learned from Terri Schiavo: the importance of healthcare proxies in clinical decision-making.
- Advance directives: know what you want, get what you need.
- Open innovation networks between academia and industry: an imperative for breakthrough therapies.
- Critical care medicine in the United States: what we know, what we do not, and where we go from here.
- The real reasons not to rely on severity scores.
- Refrain from exclusionary training.
Treatments
- Intensive Care
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center, Critical Care 1978
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