Physician

General Surgery

Chad Ball works in the field of General Surgery. Chad G. Ball is a published physician as well. He has 98 publications published. The latest was: The assessment of cognitive function in the elderly using videoconferencing.

Publications

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• Severe acute pancreatitis for the acute care surgeon.
• The Characterization and Prediction of ISGPF Grade C Fistulas Following Pancreatoduodenectomy.
• Prehospital Intravenous Fluid Administration Is Associated With Higher Mortality in Trauma Patients: A National Trauma Data.
• Trauma in Canada: A Spirit of Equity & Collaboration.
• Simple, almost anywhere, with almost anyone: remote low-cost telementored resuscitative lung ultrasound.
• Aeromobile modular critical care, resuscitation, and surgical suites for operational medicine.
• Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Undergoing Complex Gastrointestinal Surgery: Determining the Optimal Risk Adjustment Method.
• Can cervical spine computed tomography assist in detecting occult pneumothoraces?
• Recurrent abdominal compartment syndrome induced by high negative pressure abdominal closure dressing.
• Alternatives to formal abdominal decompression.
• The R.a.p.T.o.R. Suite: resuscitation with angiography, percutaneous techniques, and operative repair.
• A decade's experience with balloon catheter tamponade for the emergency control of hemorrhage.
• Acute aortic rupture after a trans-spinal gunshot injury.
• The impact of country and culture on end-of-life care for injured patients: results from an international survey.
• Occult pneumothoraces truly occult or simply missed: redux.
• Damage control principles for pancreatic surgery.
• Clinical framework to guide operative decision making in disconnected left pancreatic remnant (DLPR) following acute or chronic pancreatitis.
• Robotic distal pancreatectomy: cost effective?
• Radiation dose from computed tomography in patients with necrotizing pancreatitis: how much is too much?
• A bifid neck of the pancreas.
• Percutaneous embolization of an angiographically inaccessible pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm after blunt chest trauma: a case report and review of the literature.
• Damage control techniques for common and external iliac artery injuries: have temporary intravascular shunts replaced the need for ligation?
• The utility of sugar for complicated wounds: an old solution worth revisiting.
• Intra-abdominal hypertension, prone ventilation, and abdominal suspension.
• Combined splenectomy and nephrectomy for trauma: morbidity, mortality, and outcomes over 30 years.
• Does the type of pancreaticojejunostomy after Whipple alter the leak rate?
• Airway management for victims of penetrating trauma: analysis of 50,000 cases.
• Vasopressin in hemorrhagic shock: review article.
• A caveat to the performance of pericardial ultrasound in patients with penetrating cardiac wounds.
• The utility of organ procurement procedures for operative trauma training.
• Sonographic depiction of intraperitoneal free air.
• Intraperitoneal gas insufflation will be required for laparoscopic visualization in space: a comparison of laparoscopic techniques in weightlessness.
• Upper extremity amputations after motor vehicle rollovers.
• Surgical trauma referrals from rural level III hospitals: should our community colleagues be doing more, or less?
• Temporary intravascular shunts: when are we really using them according to the NTDB?
• Collapse of a thoracic aortic stent graft after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Venous air emboli and computed axial tomography power contrast injectors.
• Intraabdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome in burn patients.
• Public health implications surrounding recent increases in retail gasoline prices are especially topical.
• Alpine ski and snowboarding traumatic injuries: incidence, injury patterns, and risk factors for 10 years.
• The OPTICC trial: a multi-institutional study of occult pneumothoraces in critical care.
• Sonographic depiction of the needle decompression of a tension hemo/pneumothorax.
• Sonographic depiction of posttraumatic alveolar-interstitial disease: the hand-held diagnosis of a pulmonary contusion.
• Intra-abdominal pressure effects on porcine thoracic compliance in weightlessness: implications for physiologic tolerance of laparoscopic surgery in space.
• The use of a gamma probe and radioactive technetium to identify obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Validation and experience with a simple continuous intra-abdominal pressure measurement technique in a multidisciplinary medical/surgical critical care unit.
• Use of near-infrared spectroscopy as a physiologic monitor for intra-abdominal hypertension.
• Equestrian injuries: incidence, injury patterns, and risk factors for 10 years of major traumatic injuries.
• The impact of multiple casualty incidents on clinical outcomes.
• Tertiary abdominal compartment syndrome in the burn injured patient.
• Hepatic vein injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: the unappreciated proximity of the middle hepatic vein to the gallbladder bed.
• Renal allograft compartment syndrome: an underappreciated postoperative complication.
• The secondary abdominal compartment syndrome: iatrogenic or unavoidable?
• Cardiac health for astronauts: coronary calcification scores and CRP as criteria for selection and retention.
• Ultrasound detection of right-sided diaphragmatic injury; the "liver sliding" sign.
• To close or not to close, that is one of the questions? Perceptions of Trauma Association of Canada surgical members on the management of the open abdomen.
• Are occult pneumothoraces truly occult or simply missed?
• Endovascular treatment for aortic disease: is a surgical environment necessary?
• Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes for occult pneumothoraces in victims of major trauma.
• Sessile serrated polyp mimicry in patients with solitary rectal ulcer syndrome: is there evidence of preneoplastic change?
• Factors related to the failure of radiographic recognition of occult posttraumatic pneumothoraces.
• Blunt cardiac rupture: isolated and asymptomatic.
• Extraterrestrial hemorrhage control: terrestrial developments in technique, technology, and philosophy with applicability to traumatic hemorrhage control in long-durat...
• The hand-held ultrasound examination for penetrating abdominal trauma.
• Trauma surgery associations and societies: which organizations match your goals?
• Disparities in the surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases.
• Joseph Clover and the cobra: a tale of snake envenomation and attempted resuscitation with bellows in London, 1852.
• Characteristics of general practices involved in undergraduate medical teaching.
• Congenital syphilis as a differential diagnosis of non-accidental injury.
• The history of emergency airway management.
• Optimizing oxygen delivery: haemodynamic workshop. Part 2.
• Optimizing oxygen delivery: haemodynamic workshop. Part 3.
• Optimizing oxygen delivery: haemodynamic workshop. Part 1.
• Gliomatosis cerebri: pitfalls in diagnosis.
• The birth of a specialty: the first ten thousand patients of an old age psychiatry service.
• Patient:nurse ratios in critical care--time for some radical thinking.
• Discharge from intensive care: a view from the ward.
• Predicting onset of depression: the Vulnerability to Depression Questionnaire.
• Paediatric antiretroviral therapy audit in South London.
• Predicting depression in women: the role of past and present vulnerability.
• Medium-term results of cementless hydroxyapatite-coated primary total hip arthroplasty: a clinical and radiological review.
• Use of the prone position in the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
• Lifetime stressors and recurrent depression: preliminary findings of the Adult Life Phase Interview (ALPHI).
• The assessment of cognitive function in the elderly using videoconferencing.
• Videoconferencing and the hard of hearing.
• Scoring written material from the Mini-Mental State Examination: a comparison of face-to-face, fax and video-linked scoring.
• Physical morbidity in elderly psychiatric inpatients: prevalence and possible relations between the major mental disorders and physical illness.
• Functional outcome following extensor synovectomy and excision of the distal ulna in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
• Clinical guidelines for the use of the prone position in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
• Do practice-based preventive child health services affect the use of hospitals? A cross-sectional study of hospital use by children in east London.
• A 12 month clinical audit of cervical spine imaging in multiply injured and intubated patients.
• Laparoscopic appendectomy for complicated appendicitis: an evaluation of postoperative factors.
• Emergency room arteriography: an updated digital technology.
• Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome.
• The secondary and recurrent abdominal compartment syndrome.
• Hand-held thoracic sonography for detecting post-traumatic pneumothoraces: the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (EFAST).
• Occult pneumothorax in the mechanically ventilated trauma patient.

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Emory University
• University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

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