Selected recent publications:

• Mi Q, Constantine G, Ziraldo C, Solovyev A, Torres A, Namas R, Bentley T, Billiar TR, Zamora R, Puyana JC, Vodovotz Y. A dynamic view of trauma/hemorrhage-induced inflammation in mice: Principal drivers and networks. PLoS ONE [Internet]. 2011;6(5)
• Guyette F, Suffoletto B, Castillo J-, Quintero J, Callaway C, Puyana J-. Prehospital serum lactate as a predictor of outcomes in trauma patients: A retrospective observational study. Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care [Internet]. 2011;70(4):782-6.
• Rubiano AM, Sánchez AI, Guyette F, Puyana JC. Trauma care training for national police nurses in colombia. Prehospital Emergency Care [Internet]. 2010;14(1):124-30.
• Ordóñez CA, Sánchez Á I, Pineda JA, Badiel M, Mesa R, Cardona U, Arias R, Rosso F, Granados M, Gutiérrez-Martínez MI, Ochoa JB, Peitzman A, Puyana J-. Deferred primary anastomosis versus diversion in patients with severe secondary peritonitis managed with staged laparotomies. World J Surg [Internet]. 2010;34(1):169-76.
• Gómez H, Mesquida J, Simon P, Kim HK, Puyana JC, Ince C, Pinsky MR. Characterization of tissue oxygen saturation and the vascular occlusion test: Influence of measurement sites, probe sizes and deflation thresholds. Crit Care [Internet]. 2009;13 Suppl 5
• Namas R, Ghuma A, Torres A, Polanco P, Gomez H, Barclay D, Gordon L, Zenker S, Kim HK, Hermus L, Zamora R, Rosengart MR, Clermont G, Peitzman A, Billiar TR, Ochoa J, Pinsky MR, Puyana JC, Vodovotz Y. An adequately robust early TNF-α response is a hallmark of survival following trauma/hemorrhage. PLoS ONE [Internet]. 2009;4(12)
• Peitzman AB, Ferrada P, Puyana JC. Nonoperative management of blunt abdominal trauma: Have we gone too far? Surgical Infections [Internet]. 2009;10(5):427-33.
• Torres A, Bentley T, Bartels J, Sarkar J, Barclay D, Namas R, Constantine G, Zamora R, Puyana JC, Vodovotz Y. Mathematical modeling of posthemorrhage inflammation in mice: Studies using a novel, computer-controlled, closed-loop hemorrhage apparatus. Shock [Internet]. 2009;32(2):172-8.
• Zenker S, Polanco PM, Torres A, Clermont G, Kim HK, Vodovotz Y, Pinsky MR, Namas RA, Puyana JC. Very low frequency variability in the peripheral circulation: The possibility of plethysmography quantification. Eur J Anaesthesiol [Internet]. 2009;26(6):522-4.
• Beilman GJ, Blondet JJ, Nelson TR, Nathens AB, Moore FA, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Moore EE, Cohn SM. Early hypothermia in severely injured trauma patients is a significant risk factor for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome but not mortality. Ann Surg [Internet]. 2009;249(5):845-50.
• Poggetti R, Leppanemi A, Ferrada P, Puyana JC, Peitzman AB, Ansaloni L, Pinna AD, Moore EE, Catena F. WSES SM (world society of emergency surgery summer meeting) highlights: Emergency surgery around the world (brazil, finland, USA). World Journal of Emergency Surgery [Internet]. 2009;4(1)
• MacIas CA, Rosengart MR, Puyana J-, Linde-Zwirble WT, Smith W, Peitzman AB, Angus DC. The effects of trauma center care, admission volume, and surgical volume on paralysis after traumatic spinal cord injury. Ann Surg [Internet]. 2009;249(1):10-7.
• Polanco P, Leon S, Pineda J, Puyana JC, Ochoa JB, Alarcon L, Harbrecht BG, Geller D, Peitzman AB. Hepatic resection in the management of complex injury to the liver. Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care [Internet]. 2008;65(6):1264-9.
• Polanco P, Leon S, Pineda J, Puyana JC, Ochoa JB, Alarcon L, Harbrecht BG, Geller D, Peitzman AB. Hepatic resection in the management of complex injury to the liver. J Trauma [Internet]. 2008;65(6):1264,1269; discussion 1269-1270.
• Moore FA, Nelson T, McKinley BA, Moore EE, Nathens AB, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Beilman GJ, Cohn SM. Is there a role for aggressive use of fresh frozen plasma in massive transfusion of civilian trauma patients? Am J Surg [Internet]. 2008;196(6):948-60.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Juan Carlos Puyana
Phone: (412) 647-0421
Email: puyanajc@upmc.edu