User profiles for Douglas F Willson

Douglas Willson

Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Verified email at vcuhealth.org
Cited by 7113

Effect of exogenous surfactant (calfactant) in pediatric acute lung injury: a randomized controlled trial

DF Willson, NJ Thomas, BP Markovitz, LA Bauman… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextDespite evidence that patients with acute lung injury (ALI) have pulmonary surfactant
dysfunction, trials of several surfactant preparations to treat adults with ALI have not been …

Tolerance and withdrawal from prolonged opioid use in critically ill children

KJS Anand, DF Willson, J Berger, R Harrison… - …, 2010 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: After prolonged opioid exposure, children develop opioid-induced hyperalgesia,
tolerance, and withdrawal. Strategies for prevention and management should be based …

Functional Status Scale: new pediatric outcome measure

…, J Carcillo, CJL Newth, R Harrison, DF Willson… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: The goal was to create a functional status outcome measure for large outcome
studies that is well defined, quantitative, rapid, reliable, minimally dependent on subjective …

Weaning and extubation readiness in pediatric patients

CJL Newth, S Venkataraman, DF Willson… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… An editorial that accompanied the meta-analysis ( 28 ) suggests that during weaning, the f/V
T index can be thought of as a screening test with high sensitivity and low specificity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of pediatric septic shock subclasses based on genome-wide expression profiling

…, R Lin, GL Allen, NJ Thomas, DF Willson… - BMC medicine, 2009 - Springer
Background Septic shock is a heterogeneous syndrome within which probably exist several
biological subclasses. Discovery and identification of septic shock subclasses could provide …

Parents' perspectives on physician-parent communication near the time of a child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit

…, CJL Newth, JM Dean, DF Willson… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Communicating bad news about a child’s illness is a difficult task commonly faced
by intensive care physicians. Greater understanding of parents’ scope of experiences with …

Complications in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis or respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia

DF Willson, CP Landrigan, SD Horn, RJ Smout - The Journal of pediatrics, 2003 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To characterize complications among infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis or
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective data from 684 infants with …

Comparison of SpO2 to PaO2 based markers of lung disease severity for children with acute lung injury

…, T Berutti, JB Schneider, PA Ross, DF Willson… - Critical care …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Given pulse oximetry is increasingly substituting for arterial blood gas monitoring,
noninvasive surrogate markers for lung disease severity are needed to stratify pediatric risk. …

Defining acute lung disease in children with the oxygenation saturation index

NJ Thomas, ML Shaffer, DF Willson… - Pediatric critical care …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evalute whether a formula could be derived using oxygen saturation (Spo 2)
to replace Pao 2 that would allow identification of children with acute lung injury and acute …

Effect of practice variation on resource utilization in infants hospitalized for viral lower respiratory illness

DF Willson, SD Horn, JO Hendley, R Smout… - …, 2001 - publications.aap.org
Objective. Hospital care for children with viral lower respiratory illness (VLRI) is highly
variable, and its relationship to severity and impact on outcome is unclear. Using the Pediatric …