Dr. Michael A. Gropper MD
Anesthesiologist | Critical Care Medicine
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Michael Gropper is an anesthesiologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Gropper 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. Gropper also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1989
University of California 1989
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Additive inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by corticosteroids and the neuromuscular blocking drug vecuronium.
- Etiology of acute pulmonary edema during liver transplantation : a series of cases with analysis of the edema fluid.
- Protective effects of low tidal volume ventilation in a rabbit model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced acute lung injury.
- A momentary pause...
- Respiratory and Hemodynamic Management After Cardiac Surgery.
- The alveolar epithelium: suspect or innocent bystander?
- Postoperative analgesia and sedation in the adult intensive care unit: a guide to drug selection.
- Injury and repair in lung and airways.
- Sepsis and hypothermia: call in the granulocytes?
- Evidence-based management of critically ill patients: analysis and implementation.
- Establishing a comprehensive, evidence-based protocol for the care of patients with sepsis.
- Recombinant factor VIIa reduces transfusion requirements in liver transplant patients with high MELD scores.
- Critical care challenges in orthopedic surgery patients.
- Multisystem organ failure: predicting the future.
- The epithelium in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Awards
- San Francisco Super Doctors 2012
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center, Critical Care Medicine 1993
- UCSF Medical Center, Critical Care 1993
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