Critical Care Research Center

About

Through our critical care clinical research at Regions Hospital, we develop and implement clinical trials and observational studies in pediatric and adult trauma, medical and surgical intensive care, emergency medicine, pre-hospital emergency care, burn and wound care, hospital medicine, cardiology, and general surgery.

Affiliation

people

Faculty Position
  • Bennett, Bruce A., MD, Research Investigator
  • Burnett, Aaron. M., MD, Program Director, Regions Hospital Emergency Medical Services Fellowship
  • Isenberger, Kurt. M., MD, Research Investigator and Emergency Medicine Physician
  • Mathews, Benji K., MD, Research Investigator
  • Nelson, William B., MD, Research Investigator

    • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • Effort during ethanol breath testing impacts correlation with serum ethanol concentration. 
    Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2025
  • Impact of repeated sportive chokes on carotid intima media thickness and brain injury biomarkers in grappling athletes. 
  • A new technique for reduction of a posteriorly dislocated hip joint. 
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 13
  • Comparison of 6 handheld ultrasound devices by point-of-care ultrasound experts: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Elimination of emergency department ambulance divert during the COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with an increase in the average number of ambulance arrivals per day. 
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
    • Editorial Article
  • Questions regarding a recent study comparing mitral regurgitant volume between proximal flow convergence and volumetric methods: the importance of sex differences [editorial]. 
    Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.  35. 2022
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Elimination of routine screening laboratory tests for psychiatric admission [editorial]. 
    Psychiatric Services.  72. 2021
  • Fast protocol for treating acute ischemic stroke by emergency physicians [editorial]. 
  • Removing default dispense quantity from opioid prescriptions in the electronic medical record [editorial]. 
  • Risk of a contaminated urine specimen linked to high BMI [editorial]. 
    Journal of Family Practice.  65. 2016
    • Chapter
  • Chapter. 
    Atlas of clinical emergency medicine. 2015
    • Conference Paper
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  • Implementation of Targeted Interventions to Improve Outcomes in Geriatric Trauma Patients
    2023
  • Implementation of targeted interventions to improve outcomes in geriatric trauma patients
    2023
  • Patient satisfaction variability by chief complaint in an urban community emergency department
    2012
    • Conference Poster
  • Diagnosing our documentation: a novel electronic peer-feedback program to improve quality of hospitalists' notes at a large tertiary care medical center [poster]
    2017
  • Isolated intestinal type angioedema due to ACE-inhibitor therapy [poster]
    2017
  • Isolated intestinal type angioedema due to ACE-inhibitor therapy [poster]
    2017
  • The value of negative studies in quality improvement--a case study of mini-cog and other peri-hospitalization interventions to reduce cardiac readmissions [poster]
    2017
  • The value of negative studies in quality improvement--a case study of mini-cog and other peri-hospitalization interventions to reduce cardiac readmissions [poster]
    2017
    • Review
  • Clinical progress note: point-of-care ultrasound applications in COVID-19 [review]. 
  • High index of suspicion. Recognizing & managing traumatic neck injuries [review]. 
    JEMS: A Journal of Emergency Medical Services. 2014
  • Lacunar stroke in a teenager after minor head trauma: case report and literature review [review]. 
  • 2C or not 2C: phenethylamine designer drug review [review]. 
  • Manufacturer-provided effective orifice area index charts and the prevention of prosthesis-patient mismatch [review]. 
    Journal of Heart Valve Disease. 2012
    • Abstract
  • Correlation between evaluation and documentation of neurologic deficit by EMS and ED of patients with acute ischemic stroke [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2018
  • A comparison of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction by various commercially-available nuclear cardiology software on a CZT SPECT camera [abstract]. 
    Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2017
  • Administration of prehospital pain medication compared to eventual need among subjects of a randomized controlled trial [abstract]. 
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2017
  • Analysis of run sheets of EMS serving a metropolitan comprehensive stroke center [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2017
  • Characterization of injury at the Minnesota State Fair using geospatial information [abstract]. 
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2017
    • Audio Document
  • Microaggressions: upstander vs. bystander [podcast]
    2022
    • Book
  • Atlas of clinical emergency medicine
    2016
    • Webpage
  • Feedback could help doctors improve diagnosis
    2016

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