John Myburgh

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, The St George Hospital, Australia

John Myburgh is the lead clinician for research and senior consultant physician in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the St George Hospital, Sydney. He is Co-Director of the Division of Critical Care and Trauma at the St George Institute for International Health. Further affiliations include Conjoint Associate Professor of Medicine and the University of New South Wales Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.

His research interests focus on neurophysiology, catecholamine pharmacology, and aspects of traumatic brain injury and intensive care medicine. Current interests are large-scale, multicentred clinical trials in critical care, both within Australasia and internationally. He plans to explore and develop epidemiological and interventional initiatives in critical care and trauma in developing countries directed at improving patient outcomes.

Professor Myburgh is a foundation member and current Chairman of the Clinical Trials Group of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. He is a Fellow of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine > Neurological Problems in Critical Care (since 28 March 2006)

All recent recommendations

• 5.5
  Vasopressin versus norepinephrine infusion in patients with septic shock.
  Recommended by Francis Leclerc, Andrew Davenport, Didier Journois with Guillaume Dubreuil, Jiri Horak, Eric Nylen with Nitin Seam, Martin Dunser, John Myburgh, Patrick Ray, Jacob Sznajder with Gökhan M Mutlu
  
• 7.5
  Intensive insulin therapy and pentastarch resuscitation in severe sepsis.
  Recommended by Michael O'Connor, Andrew Davenport, Jean-Charles Preiser, Alain Vuylsteke, Mark Hamilton with Marcus Peck, Marius Terblanche with Luigi Camporota, Simon Nadel, John Myburgh, Martin Dunser
  
• 3.0
  Serum albumin level as a predictor of outcome in traumatic brain injury: potential for treatment.
  Recommended by John Myburgh
  
• 4.8
  Norepinephrine plus dobutamine versus epinephrine alone for management of septic shock: a randomised trial.
  Recommended by Martin Dünser, John Myburgh
  
• 4.8
  Predominance of cellular edema in traumatic brain swelling in patients with severe head injuries.
  Recommended by Donald Marion, John Myburgh
  
• 6.0
  Transcranial Doppler ultrasound goal-directed therapy for the early management of severe traumatic brain injury.
  Recommended by John Myburgh
  
• 3.0
  Mechanism-based MRI classification of traumatic brainstem injury and its relationship to outcome.
  Recommended by John Myburgh
  
• 3.0
  Intracranial haemorrhage in patients on antithrombotics: clinical presentation and determinants of outcome in a prospective multicentric study in Italian emergency departments.
  Recommended by John Myburgh