Gene Yong Sung
Director of Neuro Critical Care
LAC+USC Medical Center Inpatient Chief
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Brain Death/Death by Neurological Criteria: International Standardization and the World Brain Death Project Crit Care Clin. 2023 Jan; 39(1):215-219. . View in PubMed
Barriers to the Use of Neurologic Criteria to Declare Death in Africa Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2022 Feb; 39(2):243-249. . View in PubMed
Risk Factors Associated With Mortality and Neurologic Disability After Intracerebral Hemorrhage in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Cohort JAMA Netw Open. 2022 03 01; 5(3):e221103. . View in PubMed
Ancillary Testing for Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria Around the World Neurocrit Care. 2021 04; 34(2):473-484. . View in PubMed
Author Response: Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria Around the World Neurology. 2021 04 27; 96(17):826. . View in PubMed
Determination of Brain Death-Reply JAMA. 2021 02 02; 325(5):494. . View in PubMed
Author Response: Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria Around the World Neurology. 2021 04 27; 96(17):827. . View in PubMed
Ethnic and Racial Variation in Intracerebral Hemorrhage Risk Factors and Risk Factor Burden JAMA Netw Open. 2021 08 02; 4(8):e2121921. . View in PubMed
Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria: The World Brain Death Project JAMA. 2020 Sep 15; 324(11):1078-1097. . View in PubMed
Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria in Countries in Asia and the Pacific J Clin Neurol. 2020 Jul; 16(3):480-490. . View in PubMed
Determination of death by neurologic criteria in Latin American and Caribbean countries Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2020 10; 197:105953. . View in PubMed
Neurocritical Care Resource Utilization in Pandemics: A Statement by the Neurocritical Care Society Neurocrit Care. 2020 08; 33(1):13-19. . View in PubMed
Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2 Neurocrit Care. 2020 02; 32(1):88-103. . View in PubMed
Worldwide Organization of Neurocritical Care: Results from the PRINCE Study Part 1 Neurocrit Care. 2020 02; 32(1):172-179. . View in PubMed
Implementation of Targeted Temperature Management After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Observations From the Los Angeles County Regional System J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 12 15; 9(24):e016652. . View in PubMed
Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world Neurology. 2020 07 21; 95(3):e299-e309. . View in PubMed
Corrigendum: Targeted Temperature Management and Multimodality Monitoring of Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest Front Neurol. 2018; 9:877. . View in PubMed
Targeted Temperature Management and Multimodality Monitoring of Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest Front Neurol. 2018; 9:768. . View in PubMed
Outcomes of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (from the Los Angeles County Regional System) Am J Cardiol. 2017 Sep 01; 120(5):729-733. . View in PubMed
Status Epilepticus and Beyond: A Clinical Review of Status Epilepticus and an Update on Current Management Strategies in Super-refractory Status Epilepticus Korean J Crit Care Med. 2017 May; 32(2):89-105. . View in PubMed
AEDs after ICH: Preventing the prophylaxis Neurology. 2017 01 03; 88(1):15-16. . View in PubMed
Incontinence and gait disturbance after intraventricular extension of intracerebral hemorrhage Neurology. 2016 Mar 08; 86(10):905-11. . View in PubMed
Therapeutic Hypothermia After Resuscitation From a Non-Shockable Rhythm Improves Outcomes in a Regionalized System of Cardiac Arrest Care Neurocrit Care. 2016 Feb; 24(1):90-6. . View in PubMed
Emergency Neurological Life Support: Acute Ischemic Stroke Neurocrit Care. 2015 Dec; 23 Suppl 2:S94-102. . View in PubMed
Prophylactic Antiepileptic Drug Use and Outcome in the Ethnic/Racial Variations of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Study Stroke. 2015 Dec; 46(12):3532-5. . View in PubMed
A Consensus-Based Interpretation of the Benchmark Evidence from South American Trials: Treatment of Intracranial Pressure Trial J Neurotrauma. 2015 Nov 15; 32(22):1722-4. . View in PubMed
Emergent operation for isolated severe traumatic brain injury: Does time matter? J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Nov; 79(5):838-42.. View in PubMed
Alternative clinical trial design in neurocritical care Neurocrit Care. 2015 Jun; 22(3):378-84. . View in PubMed
Prehospital use of magnesium sulfate as neuroprotection in acute stroke N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 05; 372(6):528-36. . View in PubMed
Treatment and outcomes of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a regionalized system of care based on presence or absence of initial shockable cardiac arrest rhythm Am J Cardiol. 2014 Oct 01; 114(7):968-71. . View in PubMed
Survival and neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: results one year after regionalization of post-cardiac arrest care in a large metropolitan area Prehosp Emerg Care. 2014 Apr-Jun; 18(2):217-23. . View in PubMed
Methodology of the Field Administration of Stroke Therapy - Magnesium (FAST-MAG) phase 3 trial: Part 2 - prehospital study methods Int J Stroke. 2014 Feb; 9(2):220-5. . View in PubMed
Methodology of the Field Administration of Stroke Therapy - Magnesium (FAST-MAG) phase 3 trial: Part 1 - rationale and general methods Int J Stroke. 2014 Feb; 9(2):215-9. . View in PubMed
The Ethnic/Racial Variations of Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ERICH) study protocol Stroke. 2013 Oct; 44(10):e120-5. . View in PubMed
Emergency neurological life support: acute ischemic stroke Neurocrit Care. 2012 Sep; 17 Suppl 1:S29-36. . View in PubMed
Impact of systems of care and blood pressure management on stroke outcomes Popul Health Manag. 2011 Dec; 14(6):267-75. . View in PubMed
Effect of time to reperfusion on clinical outcome of anterior circulation strokes treated with thrombectomy: pooled analysis of the MERCI and Multi MERCI trials Stroke. 2011 Nov; 42(11):3144-9. . View in PubMed
Clinical practices, complications, and mortality in neurological patients with acute severe hypertension: the Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension registry Crit Care Med. 2011 Oct; 39(10):2330-6. . View in PubMed
Local brain temperature reduction through intranasal cooling with the RhinoChill device: preliminary safety data in brain-injured patients Stroke. 2011 Aug; 42(8):2164-9. . View in PubMed
Therapeutic hypothermia in acute ischemic stroke Neurosurg Focus. 2011 Jun; 30(6):E17. . View in PubMed
Metrics for measuring quality of care in comprehensive stroke centers: detailed follow-up to Brain Attack Coalition comprehensive stroke center recommendations: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke. 2011 Mar; 42(3):849-77. . View in PubMed
The case for simplifying brain death criteria Neurology. 2011 Jan 11; 76(2):113-4. . View in PubMed
Predictors of 90-day readmission among patients with acute severe hypertensionThe cross-sectional observational Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) study. Am Heart J. 2010 Sep; 160(3):521-527. e1. . View in PubMed
Predictors of good clinical outcomes, mortality, and successful revascularization in patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing thrombectomy: pooled analysis of the Mechanical Embolus Removal in Cerebral Ischemia (MERCI) and Multi MERCI Trials Stroke. 2009 Dec; 40(12):3777-83. . View in PubMed
Practice patterns, outcomes, and end-organ dysfunction for patients with acute severe hypertension: the Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) registryAm Heart J. 2009 Oct; 158(4):599-606. e1. . View in PubMed
A review of selective hypothermia in the management of traumatic brain injury Neurosurg Focus. 2008 Oct; 25(4):E9. . View in PubMed
Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: final results of the Multi MERCI trial Stroke. 2008 Apr; 39(4):1205-12. . View in PubMed
Core curriculum and competencies for advanced training in neurological intensive care: United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties guidelines Neurocrit Care. 2006; 5(2):159-65. . View in PubMed
Program requirements for fellowship training in neurological intensive care: United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties guidelines Neurocrit Care. 2006; 5(2):166-71. . View in PubMed
Safety and efficacy of mechanical embolectomy in acute ischemic stroke: results of the MERCI trial Stroke. 2005 Jul; 36(7):1432-8. . View in PubMed
A 70-year-old woman with poor grade subarachnoid hemorrhage complicated by carotid stenosis, cerebral vasospasm, and cerebral rebleed Neurocrit Care. 2005; 3(2):183-8. . View in PubMed
The acute cerebrovascular event: surgical and other interventional therapies Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2003 Nov; 21(4):847-72. . View in PubMed
Central retinal artery occlusion associated with intranasal methamphetamine use J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2003 Jul-Aug; 12(4):207-8. . View in PubMed
Acute Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2002 Jul; 4(4):319-322. . View in PubMed
Prognostic significance of hypernatremia and hyponatremia among patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage Neurosurgery. 2002 Apr; 50(4):749-55; discussion 755-6. . View in PubMed
Early false-negative diffusion-weighted imaging in brainstem infarction J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2002 Jan-Feb; 11(1):51-3. . View in PubMed
Outcomes of neurocritical care Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2001 Nov; 1(6):593-8. . View in PubMed
Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia associated with Marfan syndrome J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2000 Jul-Aug; 9(4):196-8. . View in PubMed
Early identification of patients at risk for symptomatic vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage Crit Care Med. 2000 Apr; 28(4):984-90. . View in PubMed
Factors associated with aneurysm size in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage: effect of smoking and aneurysm location Neurosurgery. 2000 Jan; 46(1):44-50. . View in PubMed
Prognostic value and determinants of ultraearly angiographic vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage Neurosurgery. 1999 May; 44(5):967-73; discussion 973-4. . View in PubMed
Complex partial status epilepticus accompanied by serious morbidity and mortality Neurology. 1995 Aug; 45(8):1499-504. . View in PubMed
Dr. Sung’s research interests include stroke outcomes, critical care management of stroke, intracranial pressure, cerebral reperfusion, and hypothermia. He is the principal investigator for several investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored translation research projects and he recently received funding to examine outcomes in telemedicine delivery of stroke care.