Dr. Michael William Donnino MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
330 Brookline Ave Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Michael Donnino is a critical care surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Donnino specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Donnino has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Indiana University School of Medicine 1999
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Critical care and emergency medicine.
- Central venous-arterial carbon dioxide difference as an indicator of cardiac index.
- Sepsis: the changing times.
- The utility of head computed tomography in the emergency department evaluation of syncope.
- Determining disease severity in severe sepsis and septic shock.
- Distinctive acid-base pattern in Wernicke's encephalopathy.
- A central venous pressure goal of 8-12 mm Hg for all patients in septic shock.
- Effective lactate clearance is associated with improved outcome in post-cardiac arrest patients.
- Myths and misconceptions of Wernicke's encephalopathy: what every emergency physician should know.
- Identification and resuscitation of the trauma patient in shock.
- Relative adrenal insufficiency in post-cardiac arrest shock is under-recognized.
- Anti-arrhythmic and vasopressor medications for the treatment of ventricular fibrillation in severe hypothermia: a systematic review of the literature.
- Pulmonary embolism presenting as flank pain: a case series.
- The role of cranial computed tomography in the immediate post-cardiac arrest period.
- Inadequacy of temperature and white blood cell count in predicting bacteremia in patients with suspected infection.
Clinical Trials
Fellowships
- Henry Ford Health Systems in Critical Care, Detroit, MI 2005
- Henry Ford Hospital, Fellow:Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) 2003
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