Dr. Thomas L Higgins MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
759 Chestnut St Springfield MA, 01199About
Dr. Thomas Higgins is a critical care surgeon practicing in Springfield, MA. Dr. Higgins 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. Higgins has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Right atrial thrombus leading to altered mental status.
- Hemodynamic consequences of heart-lung interactions.
- Timing is everything.
- New-generation pulse oximetry in the care of critically ill patients.
- Invited commentary.
- Translational highway: it helps to have a map.
- Quantifying risk and benchmarking performance in the adult intensive care unit.
- A revised method to assess intensive care unit clinical performance and resource utilization.
- Who's on first?
- Placing bets with a full house.
- Outcome prediction in critical care: the Mortality Probability Models.
- Metrics that matter: can transparency fix the health care system?
- An introduction to statistical methods used in binary outcome modeling.
- What conclusions should be drawn between critical care physician management and patient mortality in the intensive care unit?
- A tale of Lutes and Ouds: time to play together in the same key?
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759 Chestnut St -Springfield, MA 01199Get Direction
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