Dr. Scott E Buchalter MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Scott Buchalter is a critical care surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Buchalter specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Buchalter has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of bronchoalveolar lavage in patients considered for open lung biopsy.
- Pulmonary barotrauma in mechanical ventilation. Patterns and risk factors.
- Long-term oxygen therapy.
- Intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst: spontaneous dissolution?
- Regulation of lactate metabolism in vivo.
- Clinical risk factors for pulmonary barotrauma: a multivariate analysis.
- Langerhans' cell histiocytosis associated with Hodgkin's disease: a case report.
Fellowships
- University of Alabama at Birmingham 1983
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