Dr. Douglas B. White MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
200 Lothrop St Pittsburgh PA, 15213Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Douglas White is a critical care surgeon practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. White 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. White has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1999
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The pressure to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapy from critically ill
- Empathy and life support decisions in intensive care units.
- Doubt and belief in physicians' ability to prognosticate during critical illness: the perspective of surrogate decision makers.
- Practical guidance for evidence-based ICU family conferences.
- Surrogate decision-makers' perspectives on discussing prognosis in the face of uncertainty.
- Hope, truth, and preparing for death: perspectives of surrogate decision makers.
- Clinical nihilism in neuroemergencies.
- A history of ethics and law in the intensive care unit.
- Surrogate decision makers' responses to physicians' predictions of medical futility.
- Symptom experiences of family members of intensive care unit patients at high risk for dying.
- The circulatory-respiratory determination of death in organ donation.
- "It's not just what the doctor tells me:" factors that influence surrogate decision-makers' perceptions of prognosis.
- A randomized trial of two methods to disclose prognosis to surrogate decision
- Using noninvasive ventilation at the end of life #230.
- An empirical study of surrogates' preferred level of control over value-laden life support decisions in intensive care units.
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