Vicente Gracias, M.D., FACS, FCCP

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Director, Level 1 Trauma Center

Robert Wood Johnson University Hopsital

Vicente Gracias, M.D., is a member of the University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response. Currently, Dr. Gracias is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Gracias current serves on the National Imaging Faculty and the National Ultrasound Faculty for the ACS.

Dr. Gracias has been recognized with the UPHS Excellence and Innovation in Patient Safety Award for the implementation of a critical care telemedicine system (2007) and has served on the House Democratic Policy Committee's Healthcare Excellence and Accountability Response Team (2005). He has served as Guest Reviewer for the Journal of Trauma, the Journal of Thoracic Surgery, the Archives of Surgery, and hte European Journal of Surgery. In addition, Dr. Gracias is principal investigator or coinvestigator on a number of grant awards.

Selected Publications:

Spiotta, A. M., M. F. Stiefel, et al. (2010). "Brain tissue oxygen-directed management and outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury." J Neurosurg 113(3): 571-580.

Mark, D. G., G. E. Hayden, et al. (2009). "Hand-carried echocardiography for assessment of left ventricular filling and ejection fraction in the surgical intensive care unit." J Crit Care 24(3): 470 e471-477.

Nagpal, S., C. H. Halpern, et al. (2009). "Decompressive laparotomy to treat intractable cerebral hypoxia." J Trauma 67(5): E152-155.

Stawicki, S. P., B. M. Braslow, et al. (2009). "Intensivist use of hand-carried ultrasonography to measure IVC collapsibility in estimating intravascular volume status: correlations with CVP." J Am Coll Surg 209(1): 55-61.

Tinti, M. S., E. R. Haut, et al. (2009). "Transition to a semiclosed surgical intensive care unit (SICU) leads to improved resident job satisfaction: a prospective, longitudinal analysis." J Surg Educ 66(1): 25-30.

Gracias, V. H., C. P. Sicoutris, et al. (2008). "Critical care nurse practitioners improve compliance with clinical practice guidelines in "semiclosed" surgical intensive care unit." J Nurs Care Qual 23(4): 338-344.

Pascual, J. L., E. Maloney-Wilensky, et al. (2008). "Resuscitation of hypotensive head-injured patients: is hypertonic saline the answer?" Am Surg 74(3): 253-259.

Sarani, B., W. J. Dunkman, et al. (2008). "Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection." Crit Care Med 36(4): 1114-1118.

Shah, C. V., A. R. Localio, et al. (2008). "The impact of development of acute lung injury on hospital mortality in critically ill trauma patients." Crit Care Med 36(8): 2309-2315.

Stawicki, S. P., A. Brooks, et al. (2008). "The concept of damage control: extending the paradigm to emergency general surgery." Injury 39(1): 93-101.

Stawicki, S. P., V. H. Gracias, et al. (2008). "The dead continue to teach the living: examining the role of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the setting of postmortem examinations." J Surg Educ 65(3): 200-205.

Stawicki, S. P., M. J. Seamon, et al. (2008). "Transthoracic echocardiography for pulmonary embolism in the ICU: finding the "right" findings." J Am Coll Surg 206(1): 42-47.

Stawicki, S. P., M. J. Seamon, et al. (2008). "Transthoracic echocardiography for suspected pulmonary embolism in the intensive care unit: unjustly underused or rightfully ignored?" J Clin Ultrasound 36(5): 291-302.

Stawicki, S. P., C. Sims, et al. (2008). "Methylene blue and vasoplegia: who, when, and how?" Mini Rev Med Chem 8(5): 472-490.

Carr, B. G., A. J. Dean, et al. (2007). "Intensivist bedside ultrasound (INBU) for volume assessment in the intensive care unit: a pilot study." J Trauma 63(3): 495-500; discussion 500-492.

Carr, B. G., A. J. Kaye, et al. (2007). "Emergency department length of stay: a major risk factor for pneumonia in intubated blunt trauma patients." J Trauma 63(1): 9-12.

Gale, S. C., C. Sicoutris, et al. (2007). "Poor glycemic control is associated with increased mortality in critically ill trauma patients." Am Surg 73(5): 454-460.

Gracias, V. H., A. D. Horan, et al. (2007). "Digital output volumetric pulmonary artery catheters eliminate interoperator interpretation variability and improve consistency of treatment decisions." J Am Coll Surg 204(2): 209-215.

Mark, D. G., B. S. Ku, et al. (2007). "Directed bedside transthoracic echocardiography: preferred cardiac window for left ventricular ejection fraction estimation in critically ill patients." Am J Emerg Med 25(8): 894-900.

Stawicki, P. S., B. Braslow, et al. (2007). "Exploring measurement biases associated with esophageal Doppler monitoring in critically ill patients in intensive care unit." Ann Thorac Med 2(4): 148-153.

Stawicki, S. P., V. H. Gracias, et al. (2007). "Surgical critical care: from old boundaries to new frontiers." Scand J Surg 96(1): 17-25.

Stawicki, S. P., J. P. Pryor, et al. (2007). "The surgeon and the intensivist: reaching consensus in intensive care triage." J Surg Educ 64(5): 289-293.

Stiefel, M. F., K. A. Zaghloul, et al. (2007). "Improved cerebral oxygenation after high-dose inhaled aerosolized prostacyclin therapy for acute lung injury: a case report." J Trauma 63(5): 1155-1158.