Dr. Donald S Prough MD
Anesthesiologist
301 University Blvd Galveston TX, 77555About
Dr. Donald Prough is an anesthesiologist practicing in Galveston, TX. Dr. Prough 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. Prough also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Pa State Univ Coll Of Med- Hershey Pa 1973
Penn State Medicine
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Critical Care Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rebound intracranial hypertension in dogs after resuscitation with hypertonic solutions from hemorrhagic shock accompanied by an intracranial mass lesion.
- Hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis is a predictable consequence of intraoperative infusion of 0.9% saline.
- Plasma volume expansion with solutions of hemoglobin, albumin, and Ringer lactate in sheep.
- Ameliorating cerebral hypoperfusion after traumatic brain injury.
- Traumatic brain injury reduces myogenic responses in pressurized rodent middle cerebral arteries.
- A randomized, blinded trial of the antioxidant pegorgotein: no reduction in neuropsychological deficits, inotropic drug support, or myocardial ischemia after coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Does cerebral microembolization during cardiopulmonary bypass impair cerebral autoregulation.
- Interleukin-8, neuroinflammation, and secondary brain injury.
- Is reduced cerebral perfusion pressure better tolerated during hypothermia?
- Acidosis associated with perioperative saline administration: dilution or delusion?
- Are Medicare patients sicker, more complex, and at a higher risk for perioperative complications?
- Physiologic acid-base and electrolyte changes in acute and chronic renal failure patients.
- Measurement of individual clinical productivity in an academic anesthesiology department.
- Should pressors be used to augument cerebral blood flow after traumatic brain injury?
- Intraischemic mild hypothermia increases hippocampal CA1 blood flow during forebrain ischemia.
Fellowships
- Critical Care Medicine, UNIFORMED SER UNIV HEALTH SCIENCES, BETHESDA, Grad 1977
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