Dr. Brian Peter Lucas M.D.
Internist
1901 W Harrison St John H Stroger Jr Ho Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Brian Lucas is an internist practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Lucas specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Lucas provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A homeless 63-year-old man with an abnormal electrocardiogram.
- Pravastatin was not better than usual care in reducing all-cause mortality or CHD events.
- Physical examination: bewitched, bothered and bewildered.
- A hospitalist-run short-stay unit: features that predict length-of-stay and eventual admission to traditional inpatient services.
- Relation of cardiac ventricular repolarization and global cognitive performance in a community population.
- Hand-carried echocardiography by hospitalists: a randomized trial.
- Diagnostic accuracy retrospectively of electrocardiographic findings and cancer history for tamponade in patients determined to have pericardial effusion by transthoracic echocardiogram.
- Lithium as an adjunct to radioactive iodine for the treatment of hyperthyroidism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Inferior vena cava diameter change after intravenous furosemide in patients diagnosed with acute decompensated heart failure.
- Diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound for hospitalists.
- Certification of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Competency.
- Hospital Privileging Practices for Bedside Procedures: A Survey of Hospitalist Experts.
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