DonBensonDOFACEP

Attending Physician at St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan

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Dr. Don Benson is an emergency medicine physician in Garden City, MI and maintains affiliation with Henry Ford St. John Hospital and Aspirus Ironwood Hospital in the upper peninsula of Michigan. He received his medical degree from Des Moines University, trained at Detroit Receiving Hospital/DMC, and has been practicing for 35 years. He has research experience in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and physiology, with more than 10 publications and over 50 citations. He served as residency program director at Henry Ford St. John Hospital from 1994-2008 and began as program director at Garden City Hospital in July 2024 where he continues to practice.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterPost-Doctoral Fellowship, 1992 - 1993
Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University (Detroit Receiving Hospital)Residency, Emergency Medicine, 1987 - 1990
McLaren Health Care/Macomb/MSUInternship, Transitional Year, 1986 - 1987
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic MedicineClass of 1986
Wayne State UniversityBachelors, Psychology, 1981
Macomb Community CollegeAS, Nursing, 1978

Fellow American College of Emergency Medicine, 1994
Special Certificate for Excellence in Physiology and Pharmacology University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 1986
Sigma Sigma Phi, National Honorary Osteopathic Fraternity, Grand Chapter University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 1984
Fellow (FACEP) American College of Emergency Physicians
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PubMed

35 citations
Open-chest CPR improves survival and neurologic outcome following cardiac arrest.
Don M. Benson, Brian J. O'Neil, Edward Kakish, John Erpelding, Sarah S. Alousi
Resuscitation. 2005-02-01
26 citations
High prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in women with urinary infections.
Elijah Berg, Don M. Benson, Paula Haraszkiewicz, Jerry Grieb, Jacqueline McDonald
Academic Emergency Medicine. 1996-11-01

Journal Articles

Open Chest CPR Improves Survival and Neurologic Outcome Following Cardiac Arrest
Benson DM, et al, RESUSCITATION, 2005
Ketorolac for Renal Colic
Benson DM, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1/1/1997
The incidence of occult sexually transmitted disease in patients diagnosed with urinary tract infections in the emergency department
Berg E, Benson DM, Academic Emergency Medicine, 1/1/1996
Emergency Physician Recruiters
Benson DM, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1/1/1995
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with Lawrence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome
Benson, et al, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION, 1988
Circulation time during standard and modified manual CPR determined by retinal photoangiography
Benson, et al, ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 1985
Autotransfusion is here-are you ready?
Benson ML and Benson DM, Nursing, 1/1/1985
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Books/Book Chapters

INFECTIONS IN INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSERS
Chapter: Emergency Department evaluation of the febrile intravenous drug abuser
Bock B, Benson DEditors: Levine D.1989

Abstracts/Posters

Histopathologic and Neurodeficit Scoring in Canines Treated with Open - vs. Closed Chest CPR
Benson DM, et al, ACAD EMERG MED, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, 5/1999
Implication of missed pulmonary infiltrate in the pediatric emergency department population
Braun DA, Benson DM, American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, San Francisco, 5/1995
Preliminary study of insulin, C-peptide and catecholamines after resuscitation from cardiac arrest
O'Neil BJ, Loewe C, White S, Harris M, and Benson D, ACAD EMERG MED, 1994
Predictors of outcome in acute alcoholic pancreatitis
Benson DM, Freeman SB, Garritano AM, Emergency Medicine Research Society/Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Combined Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, 10/1990
High ventilation rate and arterial and mixed venous blood gases during CPR
Benson DM, Schossow DL, Deavers DR, and Schwab RW, ANNALS EMERG MED, Annual Meeting, University Association for Emergency Medicine Cincinnati, OH, 5/1988
Vena cava to retinal artery circulation time during mechanical standard and modified CPR in dogs
Benson DM, Schossow DL, Deavers DR, and Hecker RB, Presented at the Annual Meeting, University Association of Emergency Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, 5/1985
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