Luis Teodoro da Luz
MD, MSc
Biography
Dr. Luis da Luz has General, Trauma Surgery, and Critical Care Medicine backgrounds. He is a Staff Physician in the Division of General Surgery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Head, Trauma Team Leader – Tory Trauma Program at Sunnybrook. Dr. da Luz is appointed as the inaugural Chair of the Trauma Team Leaders Committee at the Trauma Association of Canada. He is also a member of the steering committee at ORBCoN – Ontario Regional Blood Conservation Network.
Dr. da Luz is appointed as Surgeon-Investigator and as Associate Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical researcher with a MSc in clinical epidemiology at U of T. Dr. da Luz is an Associate Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute with a research program broadly encompassing two major arenas: 1 – Clinical and scientific advancement in the early assessment and management of severely injured trauma patients (focusing on management of bleeding and coagulopathy, trauma team performance, and quality improvement); 2 – Methodologic expertise in knowledge translation, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis.
In addition, Dr. da Luz has interest in clinical trials assessing interventions in severely bleeding and coagulopathic trauma patients. He has recently completed a multicenter RCT assessing the use of clotting factors concentrates in this patient population.
Expertise
Trauma Surgery; Coagulopathy; Severe Bleeding
Contact Information
Publications
Da Luz LT, Nascimento B, Shankarakutty AK, Rizoli S, Adhikari NK. Effect of thromboelastography (TEG®) and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM®) on diagnosis of coagulopathy, transfusion guidance and mortality in trauma: descriptive systematic review. Critical Care. 2014 Oct;18:1-26.
Veigas PV, Callum J, Rizoli S, Nascimento B, da Luz LT. A systematic review on the rotational thrombelastometry (ROTEM®) values for the diagnosis of coagulopathy, prediction and guidance of blood transfusion and prediction of mortality in trauma patients. Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. 2016 Dec;24:1-4.
Rizoli SB, Jaja BN, Di Battista AP, Rhind SG, Neto AC, da Costa L, Inaba K, da Luz LT, Nascimento B, Perez A, Baker AJ. Catecholamines as outcome markers in isolated traumatic brain injury: the COMA-TBI study. Critical Care. 2017 Dec;21:1-0.
To view more of Dr. DaLuz’s publications, visit ResearchGate.