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Dr. Bruce A Cairns MD
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Bruce Cairns is a trauma surgeon practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Cairns specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1989
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 2005
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- CD8(+) T cells express a T-helper 1--like phenotype after burn injury.
- Inhaled nitric oxide for primary pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy.
- Hernia of right colon and cecum through the foramen of Winslow and lesser omentum.
- Eczema mimicking child abuse: a case of mistaken identity.
- Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a patient with burns.
- Induction of hepatic differentiation in embryonic stem cells by co-culture with embryonic cardiac mesoderm.
- Real-time monitoring of keratin 5 expression during burn re-epithelialization.
- Early enteral nutrition does not decrease hypermetabolism associated with burn injury.
- Methemoglobinemia in critically ill burned patients.
- Valdecoxib-associated acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis.
- Use of high flow nasal cannula on a pediatric burn patient with inhalation injury and post-extubation stridor.
- Chest wall necrosis and death secondary to hydrochloric acid infusion for metabolic alkalosis.
- Low-avidity CD8lo T cells induced by incomplete antigen stimulation in vivo regulate naive higher avidity CD8hi T cell responses to the same antigen.
- Lymphopenia-induced homeostatic proliferation of CD8+ T cells is a mechanism for effective allogeneic skin graft rejection following burn injury.
- Educational opportunities for experienced staff: do they make a difference?
Professional Memberships
- Member Society of University Surgeons
- Member Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Member American Burn Association
- Member American Trauma Society
- Member North Carolina Medical Association
Fellowships
- UNC-Chapel Hill, NIH-NRSA Trauma Research, NC, USA 1994
- UNC-Chapel Hill, Surgical Critical Care, NC, USA 2000
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Surgical Critical Care 1999
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Nearest Hospitals
DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALl
101 MANNING DRIVE CHAPEL HILL NC 27514