Dr. Stephen O. Heard MD
Anesthesiologist
55 Lake Ave N Department Of Anesth Worcester MA, 01655Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Stephen Heard is an anesthesiologist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Heard ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Heard also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
U of Tx Med Sch At Houston, Houston Tx 1978
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Critical Care Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Counterregulatory control of the acute inflammatory response: granulocyte colony-stimulating factor has anti-inflammatory properties.
- Ischemic preconditioning may be transferable via whole blood transfusion: preliminary evidence.
- Sublingual PCO2 measurement: the nitroglycerin of monitoring?
- Acceptance of an ABO-incompatible mismatched (AB(+) to O(+)) liver allograft with the use of daclizumab and mycophenolate mofetil.
- Directly measured tissue pH is an earlier indicator of splanchnic acidosis than tonometric parameters during hemorrhagic shock in swine.
- Outpatient tympanomastoidectomy: factors affecting hospital admission.
- Management of the septic patient in the operating room.
- Core rewarming via warm lavage liquid ventilation in a swine model of hypothermia-associated ventricular fibrillation.
- An evaluation of a new continuous blood pressure monitoring system in critically ill patients.
- Simultaneous measurement of hepatic tissue pH, venous oxygen saturation and hemoglobin by near infrared spectroscopy.
- Catheter-related infection: diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
- Naloxone blocks transferred preconditioning in isolated rabbit hearts.
- Liquid ventilation with perflubron in the treatment of rats with pneumococcal pneumonia.
- Gastric tonometry: the hemodynamic monitor of choice (Pro).
- Noninvasive, near infrared spectroscopic-measured muscle pH and PO2 indicate tissue perfusion for cardiac surgical patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass.
Professional Memberships
- Member UMass Memorial Medical Group
Fellowships
- Univ Of Florida, Resident/Fellow 1981
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