Dr. Richard L Summers M.D.
Emergency Physician
1980 Tybee Lane Lake Charles LA, 70605About
Dr. Richard Summers practices Emergency Medicine in Lake Charles, LA. Dr. Summers assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Summers examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Univ of Ms Sch of Med, Jackson Ms 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Blunt trauma in the obstetric patient: monitoring practices in the ED.
- Effect of a delta receptor agonist on duration of survival during hemorrhagic shock.
- Certified mail fails to reach an Emergency Department population.
- Impact of impedance cardiography on diagnosis and therapy of emergent dyspnea: the ED-IMPACT trial.
- Risk stratification in women enrolled in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry Emergency Module (ADHERE-EM).
- Emerging diagnostics: impedance cardiography in the assessment and management of acute heart failure.
- Pathophysiology of acute decompensated heart failure.
- Academic emergency medicine faculty and industry relationships.
- Learning the process of research by using the scientific method.
- A comparative study of American football helmet removal techniques using a cadaveric model of cervical spine injury.
- Methodology for measuring diversity in human populations.
- The role for coagulation markers in mild snakebite envenomations.
- Early emergency management of acute decompensated heart failure.
- Prognostic value of incremental lactate elevations in emergency department patients with suspected infection.
- Characterization of the spectrum of hemodynamic profiles in trauma patients with acute neurogenic shock.
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