Department / Division:
Surgery / General Surgery

Address:
DUMC 2837
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-4064

Office Telephone:
919-684-3636

Fax Telephone:
919-684-4392

• MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1984

• Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984-1992

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University (Illinois), 1990

Clinical Interests:
Trauma, surgical critical care, gastrointestinal surgery, general surgery, surgical infections

Research Interests:
Current research interests include:  The development of an implantable artificial lung; design and evaluation of membrane oxygenators; evaluation of blood substitutes; treatment and physiology of shock; gastrointestinal tonometry.

Representative Publications:
Vaslef SN, Knudsen NW, Neligan PJ, Sebastian MW. Massive transfusion exceeding 50 units of blood products in trauma patients. J Trauma. 2002 Aug;53(2):291-5; discussion 295-6. (2002) Abstract

Stephenson GR Jr, Gray JL, Vaslef SN, Louis JT, Hill SL. Impingement of the supraceliac aorta after a gun shot wound. J Trauma. 2002 Aug;53(2):394. (2002) Abstract

Vaslef SN: Implantable artificial lungs: fantasy or feasibility? New Surgery 1:116-126, 2001. (2001)

Vaslef SN, Kaminski BJ, Talarico TL. Oxygen transport dynamics of acellular hemoglobin solutions in an isovolemic hemodilution model in swine. J Trauma. 2001 Dec;51(6):1153-60. (2001) Abstract

Hewett JJ, Freed KS, Sheafor DH, Vaslef SN, Kliewer MA. The spectrum of abdominal venous CT findings in blunt trauma. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2001 Apr;176(4):955-8. (2001) Abstract

Shah AS, Forbess JM, Skaryak LA, Lilly RE, Vaslef SN, D'Amico TA. Emergent thoracotomy for airway control after intrathoracic tracheal injury. J Trauma. 2000 Jun;48(6):1163-4. (2000) Abstract

Noone RB Jr, Bolden JE, Mythen MG, Vaslef SN: A comparison of the response of saline tonometery and an automated air tonometry device to a change in CO2. Crit Care Med 28: 3728-3733, 2000. (2000)

Noone RB Jr, Bolden JE, Mythen MG, Vaslef SN: A comparison of the response of saline tonometery and an automated air tonometry device to a change in CO2. Crit Care Med 28: 3728-3733, 2000. (2000)

Noone RB Jr, Bolden JE, Mythen MG, Vaslef SN. Comparison of the response of saline tonometry and an automated gas tonometry device to a change in CO2. Crit Care Med. 2000 Nov;28(11):3728-33. (2000) Abstract

Kypson AP, Wentzensen N, Georgiade GS, Vaslef SN: Traumatic vertebrojugular arteriovenous fistula: case report. J Trauma 49: 1141-1143, 2000. (2000)

Kypson AP, Wentzensen N, Georgiade GS, Vaslef SN. Traumatic vertebrojugular arteriovenous fistula: case report. J Trauma. 2000 Dec;49(6):1141-3. (2000) Abstract

Hewett JJ, Freed KS, Sheafor DH, Vaslef SN, Kliewer MA: The spectrum of abdominal venous CT findings in blunt trauma. AJR 176: 955-958, 2001. (2000)

Glasgow SC, Shah AS, Noone RB Jr, Gottfried MR, Eachempati SR, Talarico TL, Vaslef SN: Comparison of various hemoglobin polyoxyethylene conjugate solutions as resuscitative fluids following hemorrhagic shock. J Trauma 48: 884-893, 2000. (2000)

Glasgow SC, Shah AS, Noone RB Jr, Gottfried MR, Eachempati SR, Talarico TL, Vaslef SN. Comparison of various hemoglobin polyoxyethylene conjugate solutions as resuscitative fluids after hemorrhagic shock. J Trauma. 2000 May;48(5):884-92; discussion 892-3. (2000) Abstract

Dahm P, Roland FH, Vaslef SN, Moon RE, Price DT, Georgiade GS, Vieweg J. Outcome analysis in patients with primary necrotizing fasciitis of the male genitalia. Urology. 2000 Jul;56(1):31-5; discussion 35-6. (2000) Abstract

Dahm P, Roland FH, Vaslef SN, Moon R, Price DT, Georgiade GS, Vieweg J: Outcome analysis in patients with primary necrotizing fasciitis of the male genitalia. Urology 56: 31-36, 2000. (2000)