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David Yamane, MD

David Yamane

Associate Professor of Emergency MedicineAssociate Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care MedicineChief, Critical Care SectionDirector of Critical Care Research

Dr. Yamane completed his emergency medicine residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, then finished his Critical Care Fellowship at George Washington University, where he has stayed on as faculty for the past 10 years. As an Associate Professor in both the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, he serves as Director of Critical Care Research, where his group has won national awards and given national presentations, and as section chief of Critical Care Medicine within the Department of Emergency Medicine with a strong focus on resident education and resuscitation research.

Medical degree

MD, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

Residency and fellowship training

  • Residency in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program
  • Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, George Washington University

Special interests

Point-of-care ultrasound, ECMO, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, non-invasive ventilation

Profiles

LinkedIn

Publications

Correspondence

  1. Authors' response to letter to the editor. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2026.
Abstracts and poster presentations46
  1. Age before beauty: physician training and its effects on first-pass intubation. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  2. Assessing EMS-to-ED handoff quality in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest via video review. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  3. Celestial superstitions: do lunar, solar, and mercurial events impact hospital code calls?. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  4. Costly conferences: analyzing gaps in affordability for medical students to attend conferences. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  5. Get out! Predicting extubation success with ultrasound assessment of airway size. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  6. Intraoperative transfusion and 30-day mortality after cardiac surgery. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  7. Mitochondrial-directed therapy in prevention of CABG-associated AKI. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  8. No more one-size-fits-all: using ultrasound to intentionally size tracheostomy tubes. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  9. Patient profiles and intubation success: a closer look. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  10. Platelets and the breath of life: impact on ventilation duration after cardiac surgery. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  11. The "quiet" effect: superstitious language and code calls in an academic medical center. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  12. The middle ground: a survey of fellowship training practices with midline catheters in critical care. Critical Care Medicine. 2026.
  13. Crisis averted: overcoming the perils of severe amlodipine overdose. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  14. Host RNA biomarkers detect neutrophil activation in early sepsis. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  15. Hungry for results: association between enteral nutrition protocols and outcomes in critically ill patients. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  16. Hypercapnia highs and lows: navigating risks and outcomes of severe hypercapnic respiratory failure. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  17. On a scale from 1 to 10, how bad is your RV failure?. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  18. Starving for answers: enteral feeding strategies in ICU COVID-19 patients. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  19. The cost of euphoria: a case of refractory shock from MDMA toxicity. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  20. Too much tongue: video review of glossal interference during intubations. Critical Care Medicine. 2025.
  21. External continuous blood pressure monitoring device trial. Chest. 2024.
  22. Hyperangulated video laryngoscopy in the emergency department. Chest. 2024.
  23. Safety and efficacy of hypertonic saline when administered through midline catheters. Chest. 2024.
  24. Fat embolism syndrome in a patient with sickle cell crisis mimicking thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Chest. 2023.
  25. Prolonged neuromuscular blockade in the ICU from inadvertent subcutaneous rocuronium depot. Critical Care Medicine. 2023.
  26. Structured point-of-care ultrasound training for critical care advanced practice providers. Critical Care Medicine. 2023.
  27. COVID-19-associated myocarditis treated with ECPELLA and glucocorticoid therapy. Critical Care Medicine. 2022.
  28. The hidden workforce: a one-year comparison of advanced practice provider stress in COVID-19. Critical Care Medicine. 2022.
  29. The role of whole blood DEFA1 mRNA as a biomarker for COVID severity. Critical Care Medicine. 2022.
  30. Washington DC regional ECMO outcomes in COVID-19. Critical Care Medicine. 2022.
  31. A comparison study of powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) and N95 among healthcare providers during intubations on COVID-19 patients. 2021.
  32. Dexmedetomidine in Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: Are We Intubating Less?. Critical Care Medicine. 2021.
  33. Does Intubation of COVID-19 Patients Save Lives?. Critical Care Medicine. 2021.
  34. Evaluating APACHE and SOFA scoring systems in patients with COVID-19. Chest. 2021.
  35. Evaluation of Thromboelastography in Patients With Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Critical Care Medicine. 2021.
  36. Patterns of Sedation and Narcotic Utilization for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Critical Care Medicine. 2021.
  37. Staving Off Intubation: Characteristics of Outcomes in Early Versus Delayed Intubation in COVID-19. Critical Care Medicine. 2021.
  38. Age Is the Only Factor That Affects Survival to Hospital Admission in Video-Reviewed Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitations. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020.
  39. Do initial tidal volumes matter in the setting of the emergency department?. Critical Care Medicine. 2020.
  40. Don't Let the Monitor Fool You: Pulse Check Variation between Shockable and Non-Shockable Rhythms. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020.
  41. Double sequential external defibrillation. Resuscitation. 2020.
  42. Pearls and pitfalls in the crashing geriatric patient. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. 2020.
  43. Safety and efficacy of vasopressor administration through midline catheters. Critical Care Medicine. 2020.
  44. Using YouTube videos to teach central lines: does it make the cut?. Critical Care Medicine. 2020.
  45. Does Journal Club Really Work? Journal Club Impact on Practice Trends. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019.
  46. Time to switch to bivalirudin for routine anticoagulation on ECMO. Critical Care Medicine. 2019.