Dr. Mordecai M Gerstein M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
2949 W Lunt Ave Chicago IL, 60645About
Dr. Mordecai Gerstein is a critical care surgeon practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Gerstein 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. Gerstein 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Syracuse, Coll of Med, Syracuse Ny 1963
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MEASUREMENT OF GLUCOSE DISPOSAL RATES IN NORMAL AND DIABETIC HUMAN SUBJECTS AFTER REPEATED INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS OF GLUCOSE.
- Letter: Sinoventricular conduction with absent P waves.
- Reduced glucose tolerance in elderly human subjects.
- Induced hypothermia in dogs with acute myocardial infarction and shock.
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