Doug Brunk

Doug Brunk is a San Diego-based award-winning reporter who began covering health care in 1991. Before joining the company, he wrote for the health sciences division of Columbia University and was an associate editor at Contemporary Long Term Care magazine when it won a Jesse H. Neal Award. His work has been syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and he is the author of two books related to the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program. Doug has a master’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Follow him on Twitter @dougbrunk.

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Inhaled antibiotic for bronchiectasis shows promise

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 24, 2016

LOS ANGELES – Long-term inhaled ciprofloxacin therapy appears to be a safe and effective treatment option in patients with bronchiectasis, re...

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Lung cancer screening found effective in a community hospital

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 24, 2016

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans in a community hospital setting replicates results from international and multicenter trials when it c...

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Sepsis mortality linked to concentration of critical care fellowships

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 24, 2016

Compared with other parts of the United States, survival rates for sepsis were highest in the Northeast and metropolitan areas in the Western regio...

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Smokers’ hand grip strength predicts risk for respiratory events

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 23, 2016

LOS ANGELES – In smokers with or at risk for COPD, hand grip strength is associated with CT markers of body composition, independent of body ...

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LMWH best for preventing PE in patients with major trauma

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 23, 2016

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), instead of unfractionated heparin (UH), is associated with lower risk ...

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Chest physician perceptions of e-cigarettes mixed

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 23, 2016

Chest physicians in the United States are likely to encounter electronic cigarette users in clinical practice, yet there is no consensus regarding ...

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Pelvic fracture pattern predicts the need for hemorrhage control

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 23, 2016

Blunt trauma patients admitted in shock with anterior posterior compression III or vertical shear fracture patterns, or patients with open pelvic f...

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High resting heart rate may signal exacerbation risk in COPD patients

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 20, 2016

Higher resting heart rate may predict future risk of exacerbation in patients with recent COPD exacerbation, results from a multicenter study sugge...

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Novel device provides real-time glucose monitoring of critically ill

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 11, 2016

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Use of an automated bedside blood monitoring platform was safe and effective in measuring glucose in critically ill patien...

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Brief screen helps identify patients with PTSD, depression

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 11, 2016

A new nine-item tool known as the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen demonstrated strong sensitivity and specificity for predicting PTSD and depression...

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Preperitoneal pelvic packing benefits subset of pelvic fracture patients

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 11, 2016

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Preperitoneal pelvic packing reduces mortality in patients with life-threatening hemorrhage due to unstable pelvic fractur...

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Type 2 diabetes in youth needs new treatment options

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 6, 2016

Limited knowledge about type 2 diabetes in youth and the small patient population make it difficult to explore new treatment options.

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Sarcopenia an effective measure of frailty in elderly patients

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 5, 2016

Sarcopenia is an independent predictor of 1-year mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery, results from a single-center...

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ACS should make firearm injury prevention a priority, COT member survey says

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 4, 2016

Nearly 90% of American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma members of believe that the American College of Surgeons should give the highest or ...

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Trauma operative training declining for general surgery residents

Author:: Doug Brunk

Publish date: October 4, 2016

Trauma training for general surgery residents has significantly declined since the inception of the 80-hour workweek, results from a 15-year analys...