LewisJKaplanMDFACS, FCCM, FCCP

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Office
3900 Woodland Avenue
Surgical Services
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone+1 215-823-6804

Fax+1 215-823-4039

Dr. Lewis Kaplan is a general surgeon in Philadelphia, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has been in practice 29 years. He specializes in trauma surgery & surgical critical care and is experienced in trauma and surgical critical care.

UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 1996 - 1997
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University HospitalResidency, Surgery, 1988 - 1995
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolClass of 1988

PubMed

17 citations
Reducing the global burden of sepsis: a positive legacy for the COVID-19 pandemic?
Konrad Reinhart, Mitchell M. Levy, Simon S. Finfer, Flávia Ribeiro Machado, Lewis J. Kaplan
Intensive Care Medicine. 2021-06-16
18 citations
Airway pressure release ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Adrian A. Maung, Lewis J. Kaplan
Critical Care Clinics. 2011-07-01
99 citations
Airway pressure release ventilation increases cardiac performance in patients with acute lung injury/adult respiratory distress syndrome.
Lewis J. Kaplan, Heatherlee Bailey, Vincent Formosa
Critical Care. 2001-07-02

Lectures

Other

Management of splenic injury in the adult trauma patient
Kaplan LJ, Maung AA
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/management-of-splenic-injury-in-the-adult-trauma-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-08-16
Surgical management of splenic injury in the adult trauma patient
Kaplan LJ, Maung AA
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/surgical-management-of-splenic-injury-in-the-adult-trauma-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-06-28

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