Dr. Thomas G Rainey MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
8600 Old Georgetown Rd Bethesda MD, 20814About
Dr. Thomas Rainey is a critical care surgeon practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Rainey 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. Rainey 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
Duke University School of Medicine 1974
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Critical care medicine for the 21st century.
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- Effect of vasodilators on pulmonary vascular resistance in patients with pulmonary hypertension.
- Differential hemodynamic response to vasodilators in a patient with pulmonary hypertension: case report.
- Diagnostic dosages of protirelin (TRH) elevate BP by noncatecholamine mechanisms.
- Measurement of urinary leukocyte esterase activity: a screening test for urinary tract infections.
- Increased circulating plasma norepinephrine concentrations in noncardiac causes of pulmonary hypertension.
- Sympathetic nervous system "switch off" with severe hypothermia.
- Hypomagnesemia: implications for the critical care specialist.
- Endogenous and exogenous catecholamines in critical care medicine.
- Postcraniotomy diabetes insipidus. Who's at risk?
- Evaluation and treatment of the newly resuscitated patient.
- Plasma, urine, and CSF catecholamine concentrations during and after ketamine anesthesia.
- Marked stress hyperglycemia in a child.
- Is catecholamine release pH mediated?
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