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Dr. Kees Hugo Polderman MD
Anesthesiologist | Critical Care Medicine
3550 Terrace Street 6th Fl Scaife Hall Pittsburgh PA, 15261About
Dr. Kees Polderman is an anesthesiologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Polderman 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. Polderman also might help manage pain after an operation.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hypernatremia in the intensive care unit: an indicator of quality of care?
- Associations of C-reactive protein with measures of obesity, insulin resistance, and subclinical atherosclerosis in healthy, middle-aged women.
- Increased plasma homocysteine after menopause.
- Modulation of plasma endothelin levels by the menstrual cycle.
- Hypomagnesemia and hypophosphatemia at admission in patients with severe head injury.
- Accuracy and reliability of APACHE II scoring in two intensive care units Problems and pitfalls in the use of APACHE II and suggestions for improvement.
- Percutaneous tracheostomy in the intensive care unit: which safety precautions?
- Hypophosphatemia and hypomagnesemia induced by cooling in patients with severe head injury.
- Hypothermia.
- Inter-observer variability in APACHE II scoring: effect of strict guidelines and training.
- Intra-observer variability in APACHE II scoring.
- Central venous catheter use. Part 1: mechanical complications.
- Central venous catheter use. Part 2: infectious complications.
- Piperacillin-induced magnesium and potassium loss in intensive care unit patients.
- Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
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