Dr. Oliver L Gunter MD
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
1211 Medical Center Dr Nashville TN, 37232Rating
5/5
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Dr. Oliver Gunter is a trauma surgeon practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Gunter specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ultrasound in the surgical intensive care unit.
- Prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers in the surgical intensive care unit.
- Outcome of necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections.
- Predefined massive transfusion protocols are associated with a reduction in organ failure and postinjury complications.
- Acute adrenal insufficiency may affect outcome in the trauma patient.
- Retained surgical foreign bodies: a comprehensive review of risks and preventive strategies.
- Guidelines for prehospital fluid resuscitation in the injured patient.
- Once bitten, twice incised: recurrent gallstone ileus.
- Review of abdominal damage control and open abdomens: focus on gastrointestinal complications.
- Glucose metabolism, not obesity, predicts mortality in critically ill surgical patients.
- Practice management guidelines for management of hemothorax and occult pneumothorax.
- Colon anastomosis after damage control laparotomy: recommendations from 174 trauma colectomies.
- Does regionalization of acute care surgery decrease mortality?
- Duration of time on intensive insulin therapy predicts severe hypoglycemia in the surgically critically ill population.
- Use of a furosemide drip does not improve earlier primary fascial closure in the open abdomen.
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