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Philip A Efron, MD, FACS, FCCM

Critical Care Surgeon

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Research at a glance

Top areas of exploration

  • Sepsis , 105 publications
  • Critical Illness , 44 publications
  • Disease Models, Animal , 39 publications
  • Wounds and Injuries , 33 publications

Research activity

347 publications

10,146 citations

Why is this important?

Focus

Dr. Efron has a professional interest in surgical critical care and trauma, both clinically as well as in the laboratory. He conducts basic science and translational research in sepsis and inflammation. He is currently one of the principal investigators for an NIH-funded P50 center grant for the UF Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center to study the persistent inflammation, immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome (PICS) following sepsis in surgical intensive care unit patients.

Active clinical trials

My publications

347 publications

2025

Short-Course Antibiotic Agent Therapy for Early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Patients with Trauma.

Surgical infections

PubMed Publisher's site

2025

Honoring Advance Directives: A Scoping Review of Adherence and Impact on Value of Care.

Journal of palliative medicine

PubMed Publisher's site

2025

Monocyte Anisocytosis Can Discriminate Between Sepsis and Sterile Inflammation, but not Mortality, in Critically Ill Surgical/Trauma Patients: A Secondary Prospective Analysis.

Critical care explorations

PubMed Publisher's site

2025

Language Models for Multilabel Document Classification of Surgical Concepts in Exploratory Laparotomy Operative Notes: Algorithm Development Study

JMIR Medical Informatics

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