Senior Director, Medical Affairs, PFIZER

General Surgery

Bartholomew Tortella, MD practices General Surgery. He researched medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Fellow (FCCM)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Bartholomew Tortella is a published MD. He has 46 papers published. The most current publication "Validation of a hand-held lactate device in determination of blood lactate in critically injured patients." He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Racial Differences in Chronic Pain and Quality of Life among Adolescents and Young Adults with Moderate or Severe Hemophilia.
• BE EMPOWERED, A Specialty Pharmacy Education Program for Hemophilia B Patients, Impacts Adult Joint Bleeds and Pediatric Use of RICE.
• Better adherence to prescribed treatment regimen is related to less chronic pain among adolescents and young adults with moderate or severe haemophilia.
• Traumatic tricuspid valve rupture presenting as third-degree atrioventricular block.
• Deviations from evidence based clinical management guidelines increase mortality in critically injured trauma patients.
• Excess mortality, length of stay, and costs associated with serious hemorrhage among trauma patients: findings from the National Trauma Data Bank.
• The direct economic burden of blunt and penetrating trauma in a managed care population.
• Physician medical direction and advanced life support in the United States.
• Perioperative antibiotic use in high-risk penetrating hollow viscus injury: a prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo-control trial of 24 hours versus 5 days.
• A national survey of air medical infectious disease control practices.
• Successful CPR in a severely hypothermic patient using continuous thoracostomy lavage.
• Effect of steroid therapy in experimental head trauma.
• The value of intubating and paralyzing patients with suspected head injury in the emergency department.
• The prehospital treatment of pediatric trauma.
• Enteral nutrition supplied by jejunostomy can result in jejunal infarction.
• The role of laparoscopy in abdominal trauma.
• Gastric autonomic nerve (GAN) tumor and extra-adrenal paraganglioma in Carney's triad. A common origin.
• Don't be rigid about flexible sigmoidoscopy.
• Gastroduodenal hemorrhage and perforation in the postoperative period.
• The utility of venous lactate to triage injured patients in the trauma center.
• Taking care of the "good guys:" a trauma center-based model of medical support for tactical law enforcement.
• Think before you act: a national survey of interhospital transfer policies and practices.
• Disabling job injuries among urban EMS providers.
• Requiring on-line medical command for helicopter request prolongs computer-modeled transport time to the nearest trauma center.
• Use of on-line medical command to randomize patients in a prehospital research study.
• The impact of multiple patient transport on patient care in helicopter emergency medical services.
• Out-of-hospital use of a pulse oximeter to determine systolic blood pressures.
• Factors influencing successful intubation in the prehospital setting.
• A comparison of pediatric and adult trauma patients transported by helicopter and ground EMS: managed-care considerations.
• Validation of a hand-held lactate device in determination of blood lactate in critically injured patients.
• Trauma life support education: a didactic and caprine laboratory course for Nigerian physicians.
• Precision, accuracy, and managed care implications of a hand-held whole blood analyzer in the prehospital setting.
• Surgical resource consumption in an academic health consortium.
• Prospective, randomized trial of epinephrine, metaproterenol, and both in the prehospital treatment of asthma in the adult patient.
• Utility of routine admission serum chemistry panels in adult trauma patients.
• Incidence and risk factors for early small bowel obstruction after celiotomy for penetrating abdominal trauma.
• The effect of lipid infusion on pulmonary function in burn patients with inhalation injury.
• False-positive aortography following blunt chest trauma: case report.
• Storage temperatures of medications on an air medical helicopter.
• Recombinant activated factor VII safety in trauma patients: results from the CONTROL trial.
• Challenges to effective research in acute trauma resuscitation: consent and endpoints.
• Results of the CONTROL trial: efficacy and safety of recombinant activated Factor VII in the management of refractory traumatic hemorrhage.
• Global differences in causes, management, and survival after severe trauma: the recombinant activated factor VII phase 3 trauma trial.
• Prolonged prothrombin time after recombinant activated factor VII therapy in critically bleeding trauma patients is associated with adverse outcomes.
• Analysis of 162 colon injuries in patients with penetrating abdominal trauma: concomitant stomach injury results in a higher rate of infection.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital

• Beth Israel Hospital

• Nj Trauma Center

• San Francisco Genl Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
• Personal Choice PPO
• Regional Pref Network EPO
• Regional Pref Network HMO
• Regional Pref Network HMO+
• Regional Pref Network POS+
• Regional Pref Network PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Cigna HMO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• CoreSource
• Coventry Health America PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Golden Rule
• HealthPartners
• Direct Access
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
• Keystone Health Plan East HMO
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Fellow (FCCM)
• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• UMDNJ-University Hospital
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1154478774
Last Name Of The Provider	TORTELLA
First Name Of The Provider	BARTHOLOMEW
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