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Department of Surgery

Christine S. Cocanour, M.D.

Christine S. Cocanour

Clinical/Research Interests

Dr. Cocanour has clinical interests in trauma and critical care. Her research interests focus on trauma resuscitation, nosocomial infections in the ICU, gastric function following severe trauma and computerized decision support in the ICU.

Title:

 Professor
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Specialty:

 Surgery - Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care

Address:

 UC Davis Medical Center
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Education:

 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio
M.D. 1982

University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
B.A. 1977

Internships:

 Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
1982-1983
Surgery

Residency:

 Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
1986-1988
Surgery

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
1983-1985
Surgery

Fellowships:

 University of Texas Health System
San Antonio, Texas
1988-1989
Trauma Critical Care

Dudley P. Allen Research Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
1985-1986
Surgery

Board Certifications:

 American Board of Surgery, 1998
American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, 1998

Professional Memberships:

 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
American College of Surgeons
College of Critical Care Medicine
Sacramento Surgical Society
Shock Society
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Southwestern Surgical Association
Surgical Infection Society
Western Surgical Association
Western Trauma Association

Select Recent Publications:

Cocanour CS. Ultrasonography for the diagnosis of intraperitoneal free air in chest-abdomina I-pelvic blunt truama and critical acute abdominal pain--invited critique. Arch Surg 2009; 144:142

Davis JW, Moore FA, Mcintyre RC, Cocanour CS, Moore EE, West MA. Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: management of pelvic fracture with hemodynamic instabiity. J Trauma 2008; 65: 1012-1015

Moore FA, Davis JW, Moore EE, Cocanour CS, West MA, Mcintyre RC. Western Trauma Association (WTA) critical decisions in trauma: management of adult blunt splenic trauma. J Trauma 2008; 65:1007-1011

Cocanour CS, Dial ED, Lichtenberger LM, Gonzalez EA, Kozar RA, Moore FA, Mercer OW. Gastric alkalinization after major trauma. J Trauma 2008; 64:681-687

Kozar RA, Shackford SR, Cocanour CS. Challenges to the care of the critically ill: novel staffing paradigms. J Trauma 2008; 64:366-370

Todd SR, Cocanour CS. The Immunology of Trauma. In Ascensio JA, Trunkey DD, eds, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Elsevier, 2008: 677-681

Kosir R, Todd SR, Selby JH, Cocanour CS, Kozar RA, Gonzalez EA, Vercruysse GA, Ware DN, McKinley BA, Moore FA. Acute lower extremity compartment syndrome (ALECS) screening protocol in critically ill trauma patients. J Trauma 2007; 63:268-275

Gonzalez EA, Moore FA, Holcomb J, Miller C, Kozar RA, Todd SR, Cocanour CS, McKinley B. Fresh-frozen plasma should be given earlier to patients who require massive transfusion. J Trauma, 2007. Jan;62(1):112-9

Cocanour CS. Rib fractures, pneumonia and mortality. Crit Care Med, 34(6):1828-9, 2006.

Cocanour CS, Garbade D, Peninger M, Domonoske BD, Li T, Wright B, Valdivia A, Luther KM. Decreasing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a trauma ICU. J Trauma, 61:1-9, 2006.