Naoto Morimura

Trauma & Critical Care Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Japan

Associate Professor, Trauma and Critical Care Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine.
National Board of Emergency Medicine and Intensivist, 1999. Fellow, the Paris out-of hospital emergency medical service (SAMU), 1998. Councilor, Japanese Association of Acute Medicine (JAAM), 2005 –present, and Japanese Association of the Surgery for Trauma (JAST), 2004 – present. Member, the working group on health research for mass gathering medicine, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan, 1999 – 2002, trauma registry committee, JAST, 1999-2004, and clinical indicator committee, JAAM, 2004 – present.

Research Interests: Include out-of hospital/pre hospital emergency medicine, critical care for traumatized patients, airway management/monitoring in ICU, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and disaster/mass gathering medicine.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine > Emergency Medicine (since 14 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  The differences between venous air embolism and fat embolism in routine intraoperative monitoring methods, transesophageal echocardiography, and fatal volume in pigs.
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• 4.8
  MRI is unnecessary to clear the cervical spine in obtunded/comatose trauma patients: the four-year experience of a level I trauma center.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura, Donald Marion
  
• 8.8
  Rapid disuse atrophy of diaphragm fibers in mechanically ventilated humans.
  Recommended by Marc De Kock with Patrice Forget , Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Christer Sinderby, Harald Groeben, Rob Basner, Naoto Morimura, Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellarés
  
• 5.0
  Cardiovascular events during World Cup soccer.
  Recommended by Diederick Grobbee, Naoto Morimura, Reiner Rugulies with Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen, Peter Catcheside
  
• 6.5
  Delayed time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura, Raúl J Gazmuri with Vidya J Puthenveetil, Cate McIntosh
  
• 3.0
  Clinical application of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  12-h pretreatment with methylprednisolone versus placebo for prevention of postextubation laryngeal oedema: a randomised double-blind trial.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  Hypotension begins at 110 mm Hg: redefining "hypotension" with data.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  A prospective evaluation of shortened course oral N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of acute acetaminophen poisoning.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  What is the role of chest X-ray in the initial assessment of stable trauma patients?
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  Percutaneous versus surgical tracheostomy: A randomized controlled study with long-term follow-up.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  Thoracic impedance changes measured via defibrillator pads can monitor ventilation in critically ill patients and during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 4.8
  From evidence to clinical practice: effective implementation of therapeutic hypothermia to improve patient outcome after cardiac arrest.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura, Herwig Gerlach
  
• 3.0
  Retrievable vena cava filters for preventing pulmonary embolism in trauma patients: a cautionary tale.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura
  
• 3.0
  Cerebral fat embolism: pulmonary contusion is a more important etiology than long bone fractures.
  Recommended by Naoto Morimura