Research
Areas of research interest include study design, facilitation and
scientific analysis:
1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
2. Emergency department management
3. Cardiac emergencies
4. Cardiac therapeutics
5. Emergency department efficiency
6. Acute airway management
7. Infectious disease emergencies
8. ICU outcome
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Journal Publications
1. Vukmir RB, Verdile VP,
Weiss LD: Gout: A Polyarticular Symmetrical Presentation in an Elderly Female.
Am J Emerg Med, January 1990; 8(1):43-5.
2. Vukmir RB, Paris PM: The Three Rivers Regatta accident: An EMS perspective. Am J Emerg Med,
January 1991;9(1):64-71.
3. Vukmir RB, Stein KL: Torsades des pointes therapy with Phenytoin. Ann Emerg Med, February
199120(2):198-200.
4. Vukmir RB, Yealy DM, Paris PM: Glucagon prehospital therapy for hypoglycemia. Ann Emerg Med
20(4):375-9, April 1991.
5. Vukmir RB: Pyogenic hepatic abscess: A case report. Ann Emerg Med, April 1991;
20(4):421-3.
6. Vukmir RB: Torsades des Pointes a review. Am J Emerg Med, May 1991;9(3):250-5.
7. Vukmir RB: Low back pain. Am J Emerg Med, July 19919(4):328-335.
8. Vukmir RB, Heller MB, Stein K: Confirmation of endotracheal tube placement: An infrared qualitative CO2
detector.Ann Emerg Med, July 1991;20(7):726-9.
9. Vukmir RB: Aeromonas Hydrophilia: Myofascial necrosis and sepsis. Intensive Care
Med, September 1992; 18:172-4.
10. Vukmir RB, Kremen R, Dehart DA, Menegazzi J: Compliance with Emergency Department patient referral. Am J Emerg Med,
September 1992; 10(5):413-417.
11. Vukmir RB: Pharyngitis: Adult and pediatric disease. J Emerg Med, September-October 1992;
10:607-616.
12. Vukmir RB: Emergency cardiac pacing: A review. Am J Emerg Med, March 1993;
11:166-176.
13. Vukmir RB:, Kremen R, Ellis G, DeHart DA, Plewa MC, Menegazzi J: Compliance with emergency department patient referral: Effect of
computerized discharge instructions. Ann Emerg Med, May 1993; 22:819-823.
14. Vukmir RB: Pyogenic hepatic abscess: diagnosis, microbiology, treatment, prognosis:
radiographic highlights. Am Family Phys, May 1, 1993.
15. DeVita MA, Vukmir RB, Snyder JV, Graziano C: Procuring organs from a non heart beating cadaver: A case report.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics J, December 1993; 31:371-385.
16. Szalados JE, Vukmir RB: Acute adrenal insufficiency secondary to adrenal hemorrhage manifested as
postoperative hypotension. Intensive Care Med, 1994; 20:216-218.
17. Vukmir RB, Kusne S, Linden P, et al: Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis due to dactylaria constricta var gallopava in a
liver transplant recipient: Successful therapy with a mphotericin B colloidal dispersion
and itraconazole. Clinical Infectious Disease, October 1994; 19:714-719.
18. Yearly DA, Paris PM, Vukmir RB: IRBs and consent.
Ann Emerg Med, October 1994; 24(4).
19. Vukmir RB, Bircher N, Radovsky A, Safar P: Sodium
bicarbonate may improve outcome in dogs with brief or prolonged cardiac arrest. CCM,
March 1995; 23(3): 515-522.
20. Vukmir RB: Cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis. Am J Emerg Med, March 1995;
13(2):204-210.
21. DeVita MA, Vukmir RB, Snyder JV, et al: Non heart beating organ donation: A reply to Campbell and Weber.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, March 1995; 5(1):43-49.
22. Vukmir RB: Cardiac arrhythmia therapy. Am J Emerg Med, July 1995; 13(4):459-470.
23. Vukmir RB, Bircher N, Safer P: Sodium bicarbonate in cardiac arrest: a reappraisal. Am J Emerg Med,
March 1996; 14:192-206.
24. Vukmir RB: Emergency
medicine and critical care medicine: the collaborative model. Can J of Emerg Med,
January 2001.
25. Vukmir RB: Prehospital
cardiac arrest and the adverse effect of male gender, but not age, on outcome. J
Women’s Health, September 2003; 12(7):667-673.
26. Vukmir RB: Prehospital cardiac arrest outcome is adversely associated with
antiarrythmic agent use, but not associated with presented complaint or medical history.
Emerg Med J, 2004; 21:95-98.
27. Vukmir RB: The influence of urban, suburban, or rural locale on survival from
prehospital cardiac arrest. Am J Emerg Med, March 2004; 22(2): 90-93.
28. Vukmir RB: Witnessed
arrest, but not bystander CPR improves prehospital cardiac arrest survival. Emerg Med
J 2004 May; 21 (3):370-3.
29. Vukmir RB: Does serum
prolactin indicate the presence of seizure in the emergency department patient? J
Neurology 2004; 251:736-739.
30. Vukmir RB: Medical
malpractice: managing the risk. Medicine and Law 2004; 23(3):495-513.
31. Vukmir RB: Drug
seeking behavior: A review. Amer J Drug & Alcohol Abuse 2004; 30(3):551-575.
32. Vukmir RB: Survival and outcome from prehospital cardiac arrest. Internet J of
Rescue Disaster Med 2004; 4(1).
33. Vukmir RB: Obesity, but not age, is associated with worsened prehospital cardiac
arrest survival. J of Nutrition & Environ Med 2005 March;15(1):1-8.
34. Vukmir RB: Abdominal
pain in a child associated with dental amalgam ingestion. Amer J Emerg Med 2005 May;
23(3):391-3.
35. Vukmir RB: Diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction in critically ill trauma patients: The
critical nature of end diastolic volume. Turkish J of Trauma & Emerg Surg 2005;
10(4):287-298.
36. Vukmir RB: Survival from prehospital cardiac arrest is critically dependent upon
response time. Resuscitation 2006
May;69(2):229-34
37. Vukmir RB: Sodium bicarbonate improves outcome in
prolonged prehospital cardiac arrest. Amer J Emerg Med 2006; 24 :156-161.
38. Vukmir,RB: Customer Satisfaction, INT J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv, 2006;19 (1):8-31
39. Vukmir,RB:
Customer Satisfaction, with
Patient Care: "Where's the Beef?, Journal of Hospital Marketing
& Public Relations 2006; 17 (1):79-107
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Book Chapters
1. Glucagon for Metabolic Endocrinologic Emergencies: Hypoglycemia.
Glucagon in Acute Medicine, 47-66, 1992.
2. Laryngotracheal Injury from Prolonged Tracheal Intubation (Chapter 79)
Textbook of Critical Care Medicine (3rd ), 712-723, 1995.
3. Surgical Airway, Cricothyroidotomy and Tracheotomy: Procedures,
Complications and Outcomes (Chapter 80) Textbook of Critical Care Medicine (3rd),
724-734, 1995.
4. Airway
Management in the Trauma Patient. (Chapter 14) The Trauma Manual (2nd), 88-96,
2002. |
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