Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Anesthesiology
Dr. Donald S. Prough, MD
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Donald S. Prough, MD practices Anesthesiology. He studied medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. He over the years received 8 awards: "Fellow of the Council on Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (FAHA-*Elected)", "Lifetime Achievement Award", "Distinguished Investigator Award", "Fellow, Cardiovascular Section", "Rebecca Terry White Distinguished Chair", "Fellow", "B.B. Sankey Award" and "Phi Beta Kappa". Donald Prough is a published doctor. He published 80 publications, including: 'Molecular Turbocharging Stem Cells to Improve Treatment of Experimental Spinal Cord Injury.'
Publications
- Molecular Turbocharging Stem Cells to Improve Treatment of Experimental Spinal Cord Injury.
- Nebulized Epinephrine Limits Pulmonary Vascular Hyperpermeability to Water and Protein in Ovine With Burn and Smoke Inhalation Injury.
- A rodent model of mild traumatic brain blast injury.
- Isoproternenol Increases Efficiency and Effectiveness of a Large Fluid Bolus in Healthy Volunteers.
- Human mesenchymal stem cells reduce the severity of acute lung injury in a sheep model of bacterial pneumonia.
- Optoacoustic detection of intra- and extracranial hematomas in rats after blast injury.
- Advantages and pitfalls of combining intravenous antithrombin with nebulized heparin and tissue plasminogen activator in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Traumatic brain injury in vivo and in vitro contributes to cerebral vascular dysfunction through impaired gap junction communication between vascular smooth muscle cells.
- Test driving levosimendan as the new "kidney protector": first impressions...*.
- Antithrombin Attenuates Vascular Leakage via Inhibiting Neutrophil Activation in Acute Lung Injury.
- Effects of trauma, hemorrhage and resuscitation in aged rats.
- Monitoring the brain to save the kidneys*.
- Pathway analysis reveals common pro-survival mechanisms of metyrapone and carbenoxolone after traumatic brain injury.
- Neurogenic and neuro-protective potential of a novel subpopulation of peripheral blood-derived CD133+ ABCG2+CXCR4+ mesenchymal stem cells: development of autologous ce...
- 'Professor Galveston' has departed. Obituary - Daniel Traber.
- Traumatic brain injury-induced dysregulation of the circadian clock.
- Detection of structural and metabolic changes in traumatically injured hippocampus by quantitative differential proteomics.
- Molecular mechanisms underlying effects of neural stem cells against traumatic axonal injury.
- Fluorophilia: Fluorophore-containing compounds adhere non-specifically to injured neurons.
- Cerebrovascular connexin expression: effects of traumatic brain injury.
- Vascular and Extravascular Volume Expansion of Dobutamine and Norepinephrine in Normovolemic Sheep.
- Influence of stochastic gene expression on the cell survival rheostat after traumatic brain injury.
- Hypoproteinemia does not alter plasma volume expansion in response to a 0.9% saline bolus in awake sheep.
- Blast-induced brain injury and posttraumatic hypotension and hypoxemia.
- L-Arginine decreases fluid-percussion injury-induced neuronal nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity in rats.
- Effect of esmolol on fluid therapy in normovolemia and hypovolemia.
- Hypertonic resuscitation improves neuronal and behavioral outcomes after traumatic brain injury plus hemorrhage.
- Closed-loop control of fluid therapy for treatment of hypovolemia.
- Effect on blood glucose monitoring of skin pressure exerted by an optical coherence tomography probe.
- Aerosolized anticoagulants ameliorate acute lung injury in sheep after exposure to burn and smoke inhalation.
- Monte Carlo modeling of optoacoustic signals from human internal jugular veins.
- Prediction capability of optical coherence tomography for blood glucose concentration monitoring.
- Population volume kinetics predicts retention of 0.9% saline infused in awake and isoflurane-anesthetized volunteers.
- Volume replacement therapy during major orthopedic surgery using Voluven (hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4) or hetastarch.
- Transplantation of primed human fetal neural stem cells improves cognitive function in rats after traumatic brain injury.
- Effects of hypertonic arginine on cerebral blood flow and intracranial pressure after traumatic brain injury combined with hemorrhagic hypotension.
- Isoflurane inhibits compensatory intravascular volume expansion after hemorrhage in sheep.
- Splanchnic oxygen consumption is impaired during severe acute normovolemic anemia in anesthetized humans.
- Multiwavelength optoacoustic system for noninvasive monitoring of cerebral venous oxygenation: a pilot clinical test in the internal jugular vein.
- Unintended consequences? Unanswered questions?
- Normotensive and hypotensive closed-loop resuscitation using 3.0% NaCl to treat multiple hemorrhages in sheep.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling characteristics are not impaired but systolic performance was augmented in the early hours of experimental endotoxemia in humans.
- Peroxynitrite generated at the level produced by spinal cord injury induces peroxidation of membrane phospholipids in normal rat cord: reduction by a metalloporphyrin.
- Sepsis produced by Pseudomonas bacteremia does not alter plasma volume expansion after 0.9% saline infusion in sheep.
- "The proper study of mankind is man"--rather, men and women undergoing anesthesia and surgery.
- Optoacoustic monitoring of blood hemoglobin concentration: a pilot clinical study.
- Volume turnover kinetics of fluid shifts after hemorrhage, fluid infusion, and the combination of hemorrhage and fluid infusion in sheep.
- Anesthetic pitfalls in the elderly patient.
- Traumatic brain injury and hemorrhagic hypotension suppress neuroprotective gene expression in injured hippocampal neurons.
- The prevalence and characteristics of incentive plans for clinical productivity among academic anesthesiology programs.
- Optoacoustic, noninvasive, real-time, continuous monitoring of cerebral blood oxygenation: an in vivo study in sheep.
- Impact of intensivists on outcome of critically ill neurologic and neurosurgical patients.
- Effects of different catecholamines on the dynamics of volume expansion of crystalloid infusion.
- The effects of traumatic brain injury on cerebral blood flow and brain tissue nitric oxide levels and cytokine expression.
- Influence of the type of anesthesia provider on costs of labor analgesia to the Texas Medicaid program.
- Hypotensive resuscitation of multiple hemorrhages using crystalloid and colloids.
- Cerebral pressure autoregulation is intact and is not influenced by hypothermia after traumatic brain injury in rats.
- Elimination rate constant describing clearance of infused fluid from plasma is independent of large infusion volumes of 0.9% saline in sheep.
- Two reports of propofol anesthesia associated with metabolic acidosis in adults.
- Continuous, noninvasive monitoring of total hemoglobin concentration by an optoacoustic technique.
- Increasing the value of time reduces the lost economic opportunity of caring for surgeries of longer-than-average times.
- Revenue gain for academic anesthesiology departments if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide full reimbursement to teaching physicians.
- Quantifying net staffing costs due to longer-than-average surgical case durations.
- Traumatic cerebral vascular injury: the effects of concussive brain injury on the cerebral vasculature.
- The effects of surgical case duration and type of surgery on hourly clinical productivity of anesthesiologists.
- Near-infrared spectroscopy-guided closed-loop resuscitation of hemorrhage.
- Labor costs incurred by anesthesiology groups because of operating rooms not being allocated and cases not being scheduled to maximize operating room efficiency.
- Isoflurane but not mechanical ventilation promotes extravascular fluid accumulation during crystalloid volume loading.
- Inclusion of turnover time does not influence identification of surgical services that over- and underutilize allocated block time.
- Organizational factors affect comparisons of the clinical productivity of academic anesthesiology departments.
- Peroxynitrite generated in the rat spinal cord induces oxidation and nitration of proteins: reduction by Mn (III) tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin.
- Rate of change in brain tissue PO2: a novel index of cerebral pressure autoregulation.
- Does acute hyperventilation cause cerebral ischemia in severely head-injured patients?
- Influence of rate and volume of infusion on the kinetics of 0.9% saline and 7.5% saline/6.0% dextran 70 in sheep.
- Comparing clinical productivity of anesthesiology groups.
- Optoacoustic technique for noninvasive monitoring of blood oxygenation: a feasibility study.
- Anesthetic management of traumatic brain injury.
- Dexanabinol as a treatment for traumatic brain injury: will another therapeutic promise be broken?
- Volume kinetic analysis of the distribution of 0.9% saline in conscious versus isoflurane-anesthetized sheep.
Schools
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
National Naval Med Center
University Ala
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow of the Council on Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (FAHA-*Elected)
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Distinguished Investigator Award
- Fellow, Cardiovascular Section
- Rebecca Terry White Distinguished Chair
- Fellow
- B.B. Sankey Award
- Phi Beta Kappa
Education
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National Capital Consortium -
National Capital Consortium (Bethesda MD) -
Penn State College of Medicine
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