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Avery B. Nathens

Researcher at St. Michael's Hospital

Publications -  100
Citations -  13379

Avery B. Nathens is an academic researcher from St. Michael's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Population. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 100 publications receiving 12438 citations. Previous affiliations of Avery B. Nathens include University Health Network & Harborview Medical Center.

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The Surgical Infection Society guidelines on antimicrobial therapy for intra-abdominal infections: evidence for the recommendations

TL;DR: The objective of this document is to describe the process by which the Therapeutic Agents Committee identified and reviewed the published literature utilized to develop the recommendations and to summarize the results of those reviews.
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American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale for kidney injuries predicts nephrectomy, dialysis, and death in patients with blunt injury and nephrectomy for penetrating injuries

TL;DR: The AAST injury scale for kidney predicts for morbidity in blunt and penetrating renal injury and for mortality in blunt injury and continues to support its use as a clinical and research tool.
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Comparison of 30-day outcomes after emergency general surgery procedures: Potential for targeted improvement

TL;DR: Emergency general surgery procedures, particularly colorectal resections, were associated with substantial 30-day overall morbidity and serious morbidity/mortality, and individual hospitals should examine their procedure-specific outcomes after emergency general surgery operations to focus quality improvement initiatives appropriately.