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Robert A. Balk
Researcher at Rush University Medical Center
Publications - 177
Citations - 31415
Robert A. Balk is an academic researcher from Rush University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sepsis & Septic shock. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 165 publications receiving 29583 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. Balk include Rush Medical College & University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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The septic syndrome. Definition and clinical implications.
Robert A. Balk,Roger C. Bone +1 more
TL;DR: The septic syndrome may help identify a population of patients at risk for the various complications of sepsis (that is, ARDS), aid in the search for pathophysiologic mechanisms, and allow for pharmacological trials earlier in the disease process.
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Staphylococcus aureus Community-acquired Pneumonia: Prevalence, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes
Wesley H. Self,Richard G. Wunderink,Derek J. Williams,Yuwei Zhu,Evan J. Anderson,Robert A. Balk,Sherene Fakhran,James D. Chappell,Geoffrey Casimir,D. Mark Courtney,Christopher Trabue,Grant W. Waterer,Anna M. Bramley,Shelley S. Magill,Seema Jain,Kathryn M. Edwards,Carlos G. Grijalva +16 more
TL;DR: Despite low prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA; 0.7%), nearly one-third of adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) received anti-MRSA antibiotics.
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Efficacy and safety of dopamine versus norepinephrine in the management of septic shock.
Gourang P. Patel,Jaime Simon Grahe,Mathew Sperry,Sunit Singla,Ellen H. Elpern,Omar Lateef,Robert A. Balk +6 more
TL;DR: In this protocol-directed vasopressor support strategy for septic shock, DA and NE were equally effective as initial agents as judged by 28-day mortality rates, however, there were significantly more cardiac arrhythmias with DA treatment.
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Methotrexate pulmonary toxicity
TL;DR: This discussion focuses primarily on low-dose methotrexate pulmonary toxicity and will discuss the diagnosis using clinical, pulmonary function, radiographical and pathological manifestations, and management of pulmonary toxicity through discontinuation of the metotrexate, support and possibly the administration of corticosteroids is discussed.
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Multinational, observational study of procalcitonin in ICU patients with pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicenter observational study
Frank Bloos,John C. Marshall,Richard Phillip Dellinger,Jean Louis Vincent,Guillermo Gutierrez,Emanuel P. Rivers,Robert A. Balk,Pierre-François Laterre,Derek C. Angus,Konrad Reinhart,Frank M. Brunkhorst +10 more
TL;DR: PCT is associated with the severity of illness in patients with severe pneumonia and appears to be a prognostic marker of morbidity and mortality comparable to the APACHE II score.