Dr. Edward A Bittner MD PHD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
55 Fruit St Cln 3 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Edward Bittner is a critical care surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Bittner 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. Bittner 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
Mt Sinai Sch of Med of The City Univ of Ny, New York Ny 1998
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1998
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Haloperidol versus ondansetron for prophylaxis of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Perioperative spinal cord infarction in nonaortic surgery: report of three cases and review of the literature.
- Temporal trends in the epidemiology of severe postoperative sepsis after elective surgery: a large, nationwide sample.
- Emergency airway management.
- Brief review: anesthetic neurotoxicity in the elderly, cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease.
- Tracheobronchomegaly: a rare cause of endotracheal tube cuff leak.
- Early mobilization in critically ill patients: patients' mobilization level depends on health care provider's profession.
- Successful management of a morbidly obese patient for electroconvulsive therapy with elective tracheostomy.
- Pus in the ventricles of a patient with a lumbar cerebrospinal fluid drain for a thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair.
- Acute hypopituitarism in a pregnant patient after cardiac gunshot injury.
- A clinical assessment of the Mucus Shaver: a device to keep the endotracheal tube free from secretions.
- Ketamine activates breathing and abolishes the coupling between loss of consciousness and upper airway dilator muscle dysfunction.
- A case of drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome complicating airway management.
- Evaluation of the association between quality of handover and length of stay in the post anaesthesia care unit: a pilot study.
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