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Aaron R. Zucker
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 20
Citations - 791
Aaron R. Zucker is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Respiratory failure & Mechanical ventilation. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 20 publications receiving 773 citations. Previous affiliations of Aaron R. Zucker include Boston Children's Hospital.
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Transplantation of two Patients with one liver: Analysis of a preliminary experience with 'Split-liver' grafting
Jean C. Emond,Peter F. Whitington,J R Thistlethwaite,Daniel Cherqui,E A Alonso,I S Woodle,P. Vogelbach,S M Busse-Henry,Aaron R. Zucker,C. E. Broelsch +9 more
TL;DR: It is believed that biliary complications can be prevented by technical improvements and that split-liver OLT will improve transplant therapy by making more livers available, and could have a substantial impact in transplant practice.
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Liver transplantation, including the concept of reduced-size liver transplants in children
Christoph E. Broelsch,Jean C. Emond,Jr Jr Thistlethwaite,Peter F. Whitington,Aaron R. Zucker,Alfred L. Baker,Peter P. Aran,D. A. Rouch,J. L. Lichtor +8 more
TL;DR: Using reduced-size liver grafting in a transplant program can lower mortality for children awaiting a transplant by overcoming size disparity, and will allow more effective use of donor resources and provide a potential avenue of research for organ splitting and living related donation.
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Efficiency of intensive care. A comparative analysis of eight pediatric intensive care units.
Murray M. Pollack,Pamela R. Getson,Urs E. Ruttimann,Curt M. Steinhart,Robert K. Kanter,Robert Katz,Aaron R. Zucker,Nancy L. Glass,William A. Spohn,Bradley P. Fuhrman,James D. Wilkinson +10 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that large disparity exists in efficiency among PICUs, and efficiency rates of greater than 0.80 seem to be a reasonable goal.
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Do-not-resuscitate orders in a children's hospital.
TL;DR: Do-not-resuscitate orders in diatric patients are written more often in a tertiary care children's hospital than younger hospitalizedChildren who are receiving aggressive med therapy in the ICU, where they remained until death.
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Blind use of the double-lumen plugged catheter for diagnosis of respiratory tract infections in critically ill children.
TL;DR: It is concluded that blind use of the DLC is a safe and reliable method of obtaining pulmonary secretion specimens for culture.