Doctor's Bio
Dr. Carmen C. Polito is a board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician at Grady Memorial Hospital. She provides care in the medical intensive care unit, the inpatient pulmonary consultation service, outpatient pulmonary clinic and outpatient asthma clinic. Her research area of interest is early identification and treatment of sepsis.
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
- Internship: Emory University School of Medicine
Fellowships
Emory University School of Medicine
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Advancing Global Validation and Implementation of Adult Sepsis Event Surveillance.
Polito CC, Klompas M, Rhee C
Critical care medicine. 2024;52(8):1300-1303.
PMID: 39007571 - Implementation of an EMS protocol to improve prehospital sepsis recognition.
Polito CC, Bloom I, Dunn C, Moore R, Chen J, Yancey AH, Sevransky JE
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2022;
PMID: 35500527 - Effect of Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone on Ventilator- and Vasopressor-Free Days in Patients With Sepsis: The VICTAS Randomized Clinical Trial.
Sevransky JE, Rothman RE, Hager DN, Bernard GR, Brown SM, Buchman TG, Busse LW, Coopersmith CM, DeWilde C, Ely EW, Eyzaguirre LM, Fowler AA, Gaieski DF, Gong MN, Hall A, Hinson JS, Hooper MH, Kelen GD, Khan A, Levine MA, Lewis RJ, Lindsell CJ, Marlin JS, McGlothlin A, Moore BL, Nugent KL, Nwosu S, Polito CC, Rice TW, Ricketts EP, Rudolph CC, Sanfilippo F, Viele K, Martin GS, Wright DW,
JAMA. 2021;325(8):742-750.
PMID: 33620405 - Prehospital sepsis care: Understanding provider knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes.
Polito CC, Bloom I, Yancey AH, Lairet JR, Isakov AP, Martin GS, Rajasekar S, Patel A, Murphy DJ, Sevransky JE
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2017;35(2):362-365.
PMID: 28038827 - Ethical and regulatory challenges in advancing prehospital research: focus on sepsis.
Polito CC, Sevransky JE, Dickert NW
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2016;34(3):623-5.
PMID: 26851062 - Prehospital recognition of severe sepsis: development and validation of a novel EMS screening tool.
Polito CC, Isakov A, Yancey AH, Wilson DK, Anderson BA, Bloom I, Martin GS, Sevransky JE
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2015;33(9):1119-25.
PMID: 26070235 - Navigating the institutional review board approval process in a multicenter observational critical care study.
Polito CC, Cribbs SK, Martin GS, O'Keeffe T, Herr D, Rice TW, Sevransky JE
Critical care medicine. 2014;42(5):1105-9.
PMID: 24368345 - Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 induces cell cycle arrest and necrotic cell death.
Palanisamy AP, Cheng G, Sutter AG, Evans ZP, Polito CC, Jin L, Liu J, Schmidt MG, Chavin KD
Metabolic syndrome and related disorders. 2014;12(2):132-42.
PMID: 24320727 - Steatotic liver transplantation in the mouse: a model of primary nonfunction.
Birsner JH, Wan C, Cheng G, Evans ZP, Polito CC, Fiorini RN, Gilbert G, Haines JK, Schmidt MG, Chavin KD
The Journal of surgical research. 2004;120(1):97-101.
PMID: 15172195 - Decrease of intracellular ATP content downregulated UCP2 expression in mouse hepatocytes.
Cheng G, Polito CC, Haines JK, Shafizadeh SF, Fiorini RN, Zhou X, Schmidt MG, Chavin KD
Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 2003;308(3):573-80.
PMID: 12914789
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