Dr. Paul Joseph Mccarthy MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans LA, 70121About
Dr. Paul Mccarthy is a critical care surgeon practicing in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Mccarthy 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. Mccarthy has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Emotions, cognitive interference, and concentration disruption in youth sport.
- Cognitive and affective components of challenge and threat states.
- Emotions correlate with perceived mental effort and concentration disruption in adult sport performers.
- Editorial: Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport: Balancing Risk with Reward.
- Lacosamide pharmacokinetics in a critically ill patient receiving continuous venovenous hemofiltration.
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