Professor, Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
General Surgery
Dr. Karen J. Brasel, MD
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Doctor Karen J. Brasel, MD works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine is ranked 29 in research and 16 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Karen J. Brasel is also a published doctor. He has 97 publication published. The most recent publication is: A Geospatial Analysis of Severe Firearm Injuries Compared to Other Injury Mechanisms: Event Characteristics, Location, Timing and Outcomes. Karen Brasel accepts Medicare.
Publications
- A Geospatial Analysis of Severe Firearm Injuries Compared to Other Injury Mechanisms: Event Characteristics, Location, Timing and Outcomes.
- "Best Case/Worst Case": Qualitative Evaluation of a Novel Communication Tool for Difficult in-the-Moment Surgical Decisions.
- "And I Think That We Can Fix It": Mental Models Used in High-risk Surgical Decision Making.
- A controlled resuscitation strategy is feasible and safe in hypotensive trauma patients: Results of a prospective randomized pilot trial.
- Detailed description of all deaths in both the shock and traumatic brain injury hypertonic saline trials of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.
- A comparison of prehospital lactate and systolic blood pressure for predicting the need for resuscitative care in trauma transported by ground.
- Transfusion of plasma, platelets, and red blood cells in a 1:1:1 vs a 1:1:2 ratio and mortality in patients with severe trauma: the PROPPR randomized clinical trial.
- Clinical gestalt and the prediction of massive transfusion after trauma.
- Understanding traumatic shock: Out-of-hospital hypotension with and without other physiologic compromise.
- An abdominal computed tomography may be safe in selected hypotensive trauma patients with positive Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma examination.
- End-of-Life Care of the Geriatric Surgical Patient.
- Constructing High-Stakes Surgical Decisions: It Is Better to Die Trying.
- Revisiting the "Golden Hour": An Evaluation of Out-of-Hospital Time in Shock and Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Collider bias in trauma comparative effectiveness research: The stratification blues for systematic reviews.
- Palliative Care Training in Surgical Oncology and Hepatobiliary Fellowships: A National Survey of the Fellows.
- Integrating Palliative Care Into the PICU: A Report From the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Advisory Board*.
- Increased trauma center volume is associated with improved survival after severe injury: results of a Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium study.
- Sarcopenia and Frailty in Elderly Trauma Patients.
- Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR) Trial: Design, rationale and implementation.
- Beyond 30-Day Mortality: Aligning Surgical Quality With Outcomes That Patients Value.
- Evolution in the management of traumatic diaphragmatic injuries: A multicenter review.
- A consensus-based criterion standard for trauma center need.
- Bile Metabolism and Lithogenesis.
- Addressing the challenges of obtaining functional outcomes in traumatic brain injury research: missing data patterns, timing of follow-up, and three prognostic models.
- Palliative Surgery for Malignant Bowel Obstruction From Carcinomatosis: A Systematic Review.
- Clinical utility of flat inferior vena cava by axial tomography in severely injured elderly patients.
- Palliative care in the ICU: relief of pain, dyspnea, and thirst-A report from the IPAL-ICU Advisory Board.
- It's Big Surgery: Preoperative Expressions of Risk, Responsibility, and Commitment to Treatment After High-Risk Operations.
- Efficiency of a four-item posttraumatic stress disorder screen in trauma patients.
- Barriers to advancement in academic surgery: views of senior residents and early career faculty.
- Choosing and Using Screening Criteria for Palliative Care Consultation in the ICU: A Report From the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU) Advisory Board.
- Transfusion of red blood cells in patients with a prehospital Glasgow Coma Scale score of 8 or less and no evidence of shock is associated with worse outcomes.
- Prehospital intravenous fluid is associated with increased survival in trauma patients.
- Waiver of consent in noninterventional, observational emergency research: the PROMMTT experience.
- Cryoprecipitate Use in the Prospective Observational Multicenter Major Trauma Transfusion study (PROMMTT).
- The impact of missing trauma data on predicting massive transfusion.
- Do-not-resuscitate orders in trauma patients may bias mortality-based effect estimates: an evaluation using the PROMMTT study.
- A latent class model for defining severe hemorrhage: experience from the PROMMTT study.
- Purposeful variable selection and stratification to impute missing Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma data in trauma research.
- Application of the Berlin definition in PROMMTT patients: the impact of resuscitation on the incidence of hypoxemia.
- Time-dependent prediction and evaluation of variable importance using superlearning in high-dimensional clinical data.
- Increasing time to operation is associated with decreased survival in patients with a positive FAST examination requiring emergent laparotomy.
- Clinical and mechanistic drivers of acute traumatic coagulopathy.
- Cryoprecipitate use in the PROMMTT study.
- Resuscitate early with plasma and platelets or balance blood products gradually: findings from the PROMMTT study.
- Early resuscitation intensity as a surrogate for bleeding severity and early mortality in the PROMMTT study.
- Trauma deserts: distance from a trauma center, transport times, and mortality from gunshot wounds in Chicago.
- Does EMS Perceived Anatomic Injury Predict Trauma Center Need?
- Does opiate use in traumatically injured individuals worsen pain and psychological outcomes?
- The prospective, observational, multicenter, major trauma transfusion (PROMMTT) study: comparative effectiveness of a time-varying treatment with competing risks.
- Defining when to initiate massive transfusion: a validation study of individual massive transfusion triggers in PROMMTT patients.
- Surgeons Expect Patients to Buy-In to Postoperative Life Support Preoperatively: Results of a National Survey.
- A Pilot Study to Explore the Safety of Perioperative Postpyloric Enteral Nutrition.
- Challenges in conducting research after family presence during resuscitation.
- Chronic pain at 4 months in hospitalized trauma patients: incidence and life interference.
- The Role of Surgeon Error in Withdrawal of Postoperative Life Support.
- Use of Advance Directives for High-Risk Operations: A National Survey of Surgeons.
- Integrating palliative care in the Surgical and trauma intensive care unit: A report from the Improving Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (IPAL-ICU) Project A...
- Region-Specific Deflection Responses of WorldSID and ES2-re Devices in Pure Lateral and Oblique Side Impacts.
- Factors Identifying Risk for Psychological Distress in the Civilian Trauma Population.
- Health Services Research Resources for Surgeons.
- Considering the Patient's Perspective in the Injury Severity Score.
- Cost-Effective Treatment of Patients with Symptomatic Cholelithiasis and Possible Common Bile Duct Stones.
- Staged abdominal repairs reduce long-term quality of life.
- Structured teaching versus experiential learning of palliative care for Surgical residents.
- Physician attitudes regarding advance directives for high-risk Surgical patients: a qualitative analysis.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder: a primer for trauma surgeons.
- Surgical "buy-in": the contractual relationship between surgeons and patients that influences decisions regarding life-supporting therapy.
- Injury severity and quality of life: whose perspective is important?
- Cost-effectiveness of prolonged thromboprophylaxis after cancer surgery.
- Putting a price on education: hours and dollars for a general surgery curriculum.
- Factors correlated with surgery resident choice to practice general surgery in a rural area.
- Surgical education in the internet era.
- Splenic trauma as an adverse effect of torso-protecting side airbags: biomechanical and case evidence.
- Management of patients with anterior abdominal stab wounds: a Western Trauma Association multicenter trial.
- Developing guidelines that identify patients who would benefit from palliative care services in the Surgical intensive care unit.
- Protected block curriculum enhances learning during general surgery residency training.
- Management of maxillofacial injuries with severe oronasal hemorrhage: a multicenter perspective.
- Preinjury beta blockers are associated with increased mortality in geriatric trauma patients.
- Deleterious effect of cirrhosis on outcomes after motor vehicle crashes using the nationwide inpatient sample.
- Needlesticks and Surgical residents: who is most at risk?
- Quality-of-life assessment in palliative care.
- Significance of contrast extravasation in patients with pelvic fracture.
- Multiple subfailures characterize blunt aortic injury.
- Length of stay: an appropriate quality measure?
- Heart rate: is it truly a vital sign?
- A PGY1 curriculum--meeting a need for changing times.
- The Surgical Learning and Instructional Portfolio (SLIP) as a self-assessment educational tool demonstrating practice-based learning.
- Predicting quality of life six months after traumatic injury.
- Excess mortality caused by medical injury.
- Rib fractures: relationship with pneumonia and mortality.
- Correlation of SF-12 and SF-36 in a trauma population.
- Effective retention of primary survey skills by medical students after participation in an expanded Trauma Evaluation and Management course.
- What mechanism justifies abdominal evaluation in motor vehicle crashes?
- Research ethics primer.
- Crohn's disease presenting as necrotizing fasciitis: a case report.
Schools
Roy J Lucille a Carver College Of Medicine At University Of Iowa
University Of Minnesota
University Nc School Med
Conditions Treated
- Surgical Infections
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- American Enterprise Group
- American Republic
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- First Choice Health PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Golden Rule
- Health Plan of Oregon PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- Molina
- MultiPlan PPO
- ODS Health Plan
- Heritage Plus
- Heritage Signature
- Preferred PPO
- Preferred Provider Network PPN
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Universal American
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of North Carolina Hospitals -
University of Minnesota -
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Hospital
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Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1073564423 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BRASEL | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | KAREN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 532263522 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WI | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 21.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 11.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 52.38 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1073564423 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BRASEL |
| First Name Of The Provider | KAREN |
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