Dr. Michael Alexander Puskarich M.D.
Emergency Physician
1000 Blythe Blvd Meb 3 Charlotte NC, 28203About
Dr. Michael Puskarich practices Emergency Medicine in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Puskarich assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Puskarich examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
New Jersey College of Dentistry 2007
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM- 2011
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Is lactate the "Holy Grail" of biomarkers for sepsis prognosis?
- Sepsis-induced tissue hypoperfusion.
- Sepsis-induced tissue hypoperfusion.
- Emergency management of severe sepsis and septic shock.
- The effect of etomidate on mortality in sepsis remains unclear.
- Preliminary safety and efficacy of L-carnitine infusion for the treatment of vasopressor-dependent septic shock: a randomized control trial.
- The Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2012: update for emergency physicians.
- Explicitly targeting explicit sepsis: fair metrics for quality assessment*.
- Prognosis of emergency department patients with suspected infection and intermediate lactate levels: a systematic review.
- Clearing lactate is clearly better…but how much?*.
- The curious case of the missing sepsis patients.
- Prehospital treatment of sepsis: what really makes the "golden hour" golden?
- Decompensation to shock: what is the risk?
- Whole Blood Reveals More Metabolic Detail of the Human Metabolome than Serum as Measured by 1H-NMR Spectroscopy: Implications for Sepsis Metabolomics.
- Plasma Glycoproteomics Reveals Sepsis Outcomes Linked to Distinct Proteins in
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