Professor, Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Denis D. Bensard, MD
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Dr. Denis D. Bensard is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine is ranked 35 in research and 8 in primary care medicine He received 7 awards: "National Committee on Trauma", "Associate Editor", "Denver Top Docs", "Faculty Teacher of the Year", "Golden Apple Teaching Award", "Fellow American academy of pediatrics" and "Fellow (FACS)". Doctor Denis D. Bensard, MD is also a published doctor. He has 99 publication published. The most recent publication is: Driveway crush injuries in young children: a highly lethal, devastating, and potentially preventable event. Denis D. Bensard, MD is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Is Routine Upper Gastrointestinal Contrast Study Necessary prior to Laparoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement in Children?
- Pediatric emergency department thoracotomy: A 40-year review.
- A pediatric specific shock index in combination with GMS identifies children with life threatening or severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Pediatric specific shock index accurately identifies severely injured children.
- Injured children are resistant to the adverse effects of early high volume crystalloid resuscitation.
- Head Injury pattern in children can help differentiate accidental from non-accidental trauma.
- Blood component transfusion increases the risk of death in children with traumatic Brain injury.
- Intra-abdominal Injury following blunt trauma becomes clinically apparent within 9 hours.
- Early tracheostomy improves outcomes in severely injured children and adolescents.
- Head Injury and unclear mechanism of Injury: Initial hematocrit less than 30 is predictive of abusive head trauma in young children.
- Mechanism of Injury alone is not justified as the sole indication for computed tomographic imaging in blunt pediatric trauma.
- Hypercoagulability following blunt solid abdominal organ Injury: when to initiate anticoagulation.
- Base deficit correlates with mortality in pediatric abusive head trauma.
- Chest computed tomography imaging for blunt pediatric trauma: not worth the radiation risk.
- Validation of rules to predict emergent surgical intervention in pediatric trauma patients.
- A Negative Urinalysis Rules Out Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
- Acute Appendicitis: a disease severity score for the acute care surgeon.
- Effect of damage control surgery on major abdominal vascular trauma.
- Sexual dimorphism in hematocrit response following red blood cell transfusion of critically ill surgical patients.
- Blunt cerebrovascular injuries in the child.
- Pediatric thyroidectomy: a collaborative surgical approach.
- Use of ultrasound measurements to direct laparoscopic pyloromyotomy in infants.
- Early discharge following laparoscopic appendectomy in children utilizing an evidence-based clinical pathway.
- Nonaccidental trauma is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients at a regional level 1 pediatric trauma center.
- Resection of neurogenic tumors in children: is thoracoscopy superior to thoracotomy?
- Preservation of an aberrant left hepatic artery during laparoscopic nissen fundoplication.
- Laparoscopic guidance or revision of ventriculoperitoneal shunts in children.
- Visceral injuries in nonaccidental trauma: spectrum of Injury and outcomes.
- Early experience with laparoscopic pyloromyotomy in a teaching institution.
- Efficacy of left thoracoscopy and blunt mediastinal dissection during the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum.
- Laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in children and adolescents.
- Renovascular Injury: an argument for renal preservation.
- Ride-on lawnmower accidents causing significant torso and extremity injuries in childhood: case report and review.
- Endotoxin induces an exaggerated interleukin-10 response in peritoneal macrophages of children compared with adults.
- Hollow viscous Injury in the pediatric patient.
- Blunt diaphragmatic rupture in children.
- Diaphragmatic hernia simulating a left pleural effusion.
- Recurrent inflammatory pseudotumors in children.
- Is a routine chest x-ray necessary for children after fluoroscopically assisted central venous access?
- "Resistance" to the inflammatory response and multiple organ failure in children.
- The positive predictive value of rib fractures as an indicator of nonaccidental trauma in children.
- Increased CT scan utilization does not improve the diagnostic accuracy of Appendicitis in children.
- Spectrum of anorectal anomalies in pygopagus twins.
- The injured child is resistant to multiple organ failure: a different inflammatory response?
- Is hypotension a reliable indicator of blood loss from traumatic Injury in children?
- Altered neutrophil function in the neonate protects against sepsis-induced lung Injury.
- Successful thoracoscopic lung biopsy in children utilizing preoperative CT-guided localization.
- Toll-like receptor-4 signaling mediates pulmonary neutrophil sequestration in response to gram-positive bacterial enterotoxin.
- A critical analysis of outcome for children sustaining cardiac arrest after blunt trauma.
- Ultrasound is an effective triage tool to evaluate blunt abdominal trauma in the pediatric population.
- Is routine pathological evaluation of pediatric hernia sacs justified?
- Suppression of tumor necrosis factor alpha production by cAMP in human monocytes: dissociation with mRNA level and independent of interleukin-10.
- Life-threatening dog attacks: a devastating combination of penetrating and blunt injuries.
- TNF receptor I mediates chemokine production and neutrophil accumulation in the lung following systemic lipopolysaccharide.
- Endotoxin differentially impairs receptor-mediated relaxation in rat isolated pulmonary and thoracic aortic vessels.
- Driveway crush injuries in young children: a highly lethal, devastating, and potentially preventable event.
- Cardiotrophin-1 attenuates endotoxin-induced acute lung Injury.
- Inhibition of PARS attenuates endotoxin-induced dysfunction of pulmonary vasorelaxation.
- Nonoperative management of solid organ injuries in children results in decreased blood utilization.
- Differential inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in systemic and pulmonary vessels after endotoxin.
- Operative management of injured children at an adult level I trauma center.
- Chemokines as mediators of diseases related to surgical conditions.
- Thirty years of clinical trials in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Cervical spine trauma in the injured child: a tragic Injury with potential for salvageable functional outcome,.
- L-arginine attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced lung chemokine production.
- Platelet activating factor alters receptor-coupled function in the isolated perfused rat heart.
- Liver Injury is a reversible neutrophil-mediated event following gut ischemia.
- Gut and liver coordinated metabolic response following major torso Injury.
- Neutrophils contribute to TNF induced myocardial tolerance to ischaemia.
- Primed neutrophils injure rat lung through a platelet-activating factor-dependent mechanism.
- Marginating neutrophils are reversibly adherent to normal lung endothelium.
- FNLP injures endotoxin-primed rat lung by neutrophil-dependent and -independent mechanisms.
- The role of platelet activating factor and its antagonists in shock, sepsis and multiple organ failure.
- Pretreatment with a nontoxic derivative of endotoxin induces functional protection against cardiac ischemia/reperfusion Injury.
- Reversible lung neutrophil accumulation can cause lung Injury by elastase-mediated mechanisms.
- Induction of endogenous tissue antioxidant enzyme activity attenuates myocardial reperfusion Injury.
- Acute pleuritic chest pain and lung mass in an elderly woman.
- Preoperative cardiac risk management.
- Adenosine A1-receptor mechanisms antagonize beta-adrenergic pulmonary vasodilation in hypoxia.
- A critical analysis of acutely injured children managed in an adult level I trauma center.
- The pediatric diaphragm in acute gastric volvulus.
- Endotoxin disrupts beta-adrenergic signal transduction in the heart.
- Pelvic fracture geometry predicts risk of life-threatening hemorrhage in children.
- Preconditioning against myocardial dysfunction after ischemia and reperfusion by an alpha 1-adrenergic mechanism.
- Comparison of video thoracoscopic lung biopsy to open lung biopsy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
- Long-term results with the Kasai operation for biliary atresia.
- Exposure for laparoscopic cholecystectomy dissection adversely alters biliary ductal anatomy.
- Small bowel Injury in children after blunt abdominal trauma: is diagnostic delay important?
- Laparoscopic evaluation of contralateral patent processus vaginalis in children.
- Acute abdomen. Special considerations for the neurologically and immunologically impaired child.
- IL-1beta induces an exaggerated pro- and anti-inflammatory response in peritoneal macrophages of children compared with adults.
- IL-1 regulates in vivo C-X-C chemokine induction and neutrophil sequestration following endotoxemia.
- Positioning for the Nuss procedure: avoiding brachial plexus Injury.
- Survival in sentinel lymph node-positive pediatric melanoma.
- Response to successful management of a child with asparaginase- induced hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
- The synergistic relationship between a level I trauma center and a regional pediatric trauma center.
- Outcome after exploratory laparoscopy for unexplained abdominal pain in childhood.
- Successful management with octreotide of a child with L-asparaginase induced hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
Schools
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER
University Co
Ohio State University
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
Conditions Treated
- Appendicitis
- Brain Injury
- Empyema
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- National Committee on Trauma
- Associate Editor
- Denver Top Docs
- Faculty Teacher of the Year
- Golden Apple Teaching Award
- Fellow American academy of pediatrics
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Ohio State University Hospital -
University of Colorado -
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Hospital
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Denver Health
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1528011293 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BENSARD |
| First Name Of The Provider | DENIS |
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