Assistant Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

Internal Medicine

James R. Ligas works in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow". James Ligas is a published physician. He published 13 publications, including: 'Experiences as preceptor to acute-care nurse practitioner students: one physician's view.' Dr. James R. Ligas is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• A critical care subinternship using the ICU as an applied physiology laboratory.
• Experiences as preceptor to acute-care nurse practitioner students: one physician's view.
• Continuous blood density measurement for hemodynamic monitoring: an analysis of its accuracy and sensitivity.
• Enhancement of urine output and glomerular filtration in acutely oliguric patients using low-dose norepinephrine.
• The unsteady form of the Bernoulli equation for estimating pressure drop in the airways.
• Sepsis due to triple lumen central venous catheters.
• A simple nomogram for adjusting continuous intravenous infusions.
• Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis of a nonlinearly elastic static lung model.
• Static mechanics of excised whole lung: pleural mechanics.
• Static mechanics of excised whole lung: theoretical framework and experimental studies.
• A non-linearly elastic, finite deformation analysis applicable to the static mechanics of excised lungs.
• Comparison of measures of forced expiration.

Schools

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• Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna
• Blue Card PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Fallon Community Health Plan
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
• Humana
• Medicare MCR
• PHCS Network PPO
• Neighborhood Health Plan
• Tufts Health Plans
• Tufts PPO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Fellow

Education

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• Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals
• Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1336145556
Last Name Of The Provider	LIGAS
First Name Of The Provider	JAMES
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