Robert Balk MD

PubMed

• Sequential Application of Time-Stratified Demographic, Vital, Clinical-Laboratory, and Microbiology Variables for Accurate and Rapid Identification of Sepsis.
  Krupa Arun Navalkar, José Garnacho-Montero, María Luisa Cantón-Bulnes, José Luís García-Garmendia, Ángel Estella
  Diseases. 2026-09-01
• Diagnostic Performance of Point-of-Care Immunoassay Measurements of Pancreatic Stone Protein for Sepsis Detection in ICU Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter, Biomarke...
  Andrew F Shorr, Marin H Kollef, Richard G Wunderink, Luis E Jauregui-Peredo, Andrew C Bernard
  Critical Care Medicine. 2026-05-01
• 6 citations
  Rapid and Robust Identification of Sepsis Using SeptiCyte RAPID in a Heterogeneous Patient Population.
  Robert Balk, Annette M Esper, Greg S Martin, Russell R Miller 3rd, Bert K Lopansri
  Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024-10-10

Journal Articles

• Score for Predicting Ventilator Weaning Duration in Patients with Tracheostomies  
  Jared A Greenberg, Raj C Shah, Robert A Balk, American Journal of Critical Care
• Evaluation of pain, dyspnea, and goals of care among adults with cystic fibrosis: A comprehensive palliative care survey  
  Chen E, Killeen KM, Peterson SJ, Saulitis AK, Balk RA, Am J Hospice & Pall Med, 1/1/2016
• The new sepsis definition: the good, the bad, and the ugly  
  Sprung CL, Schein RMH, Balk RA, Intens Care Med, 1/1/2016

Books/Book Chapters

• Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult 
  Chapter: Acute respiratory failure, including acute lung injury and ARDS 
  Page 629 - 644Gurka DP, Balk RAEditors: Parrillo JE & Dellinger RP.Mosby Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 4th,2014
• Comprehensive Critical Care: Adult 
  Chapter: Immunologic Lung Disease. 
  Page 409 - 422Balk RAEditors: Roberts PR, Todd SR.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Chicago, IL2012
• 2012 Year Book of Critical Care Medicine 
  Editors: Dries DJ, Zanotti-Cavazzoni SL, Latenser BA, Martinez EA, Rincon F, and Zwank MD (eds); Balk RA (Contributing Editor).Elsevier Mosby, Inc., Philadelphia, PA2012

Abstracts/Posters

• Transition self-care skills: Pediatric and young adult patients.
  Saulitis AK, Peterson SJ, Burke J, Brinkman M, McLean KA, McAndrews KK, Chen E, Balk RA, Sharma GD, Ped Pulmonol, 1/1/2016
• Longitudinal 25-hydroxyvitamin D status influences pulmonary exacerbations among patients with cystic fibrosis.
  Gelfand AR, Peterson SJ, Burke J, McAndrews KK, Sharma G, Chen E, Balk RA, Ped Pulmonol, 1/1/2016
• Key self-care skills for transfer in CF: Comparing pediatric and adult patient perspectives.
  Brinkman M, Saulitis AK, Peterson S, Burke J, McAndrews KK, McLean KA, Chen E, Sharma GD, Balk RA, Ped Pulmonol, 1/1/2016

Lectures

• Critical Care Medicine 2019 
  2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/9/2019
• Effect of Procalcitonin testing on healthcare utilization and costs in critically ill patients in the United States. 
  National Harbor, MD - 1/24/2016
• Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock. 
  Washington, DC - 1/3/2016

Other

• ARDS: Pathophysiology of SIRS and MODS. CD ROM 
  Balk RA, Pulm Crit Care Update
  1/1/1998
• Case Studies in Pulmonary Emergencies. 
  Balk RA, Hosp Phys Pulmonary Disease Board Review Manual
  1/1/1997
• Sarcoidosis. Hosp Phys. 
  Balk RA, Pulmonary Disease Board Review Manual
  1/1/1997