Dr. Richard R Riker M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
100 Foden Road West Building, Suite South Portland ME, 04106About
Dr. Richard Riker practices Pulmonology in South Portland, ME. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Riker manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1984
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enzyme-catalyzed bioactivation of cyclic tertiary amines to form potential neurotoxins.
- Frequency, severity, and treatment of agitation in young versus elderly patients in the ICU.
- Adrenocortical dysfunction following etomidate induction in emergency department patients.
- The frequency and cost of patient-initiated device removal in the ICU.
- Monitoring sedation, agitation, analgesia, and delirium in critically ill adult patients.
- Sedation assessment in critically ill adults.
- Removal of propylene glycol and correction of increased osmolar gap by hemodialysis in a patient on high dose lorazepam infusion therapy.
- Caution and patient safety concerns should guide us.
- Bispectral index monitoring in the intensive care unit provides more signal than noise.
- Unfractionated- versus low-molecular-weight-heparin-associated HIT in hospitalized medical patients.
- Comfort without coma: changing sedation practices.
- Delirium assessment in the critically ill.
- Sedation and analgesia in the critically ill adult.
- Organ and tissue donation from the emergency department.
- A cost-minimization analysis of dexmedetomidine compared with midazolam for long-term sedation in the intensive care unit.
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