Physician

General Surgery

Thomas Esposito practices General Surgery. He went to Georgetown University School of Medicine. Georgetown University School of Medicine is ranked 49/84 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Thomas Esposito, MD is a published physician. He has 88 publications published. The most current publication "Changing epidemiology of injury-related pediatric mortality in a rural state: implications for injury control." He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Positive outcomes with negative pressure therapy over primarily closed large abdominal wall reconstruction reduces surgical site infection rates.
• Emergency department recognition program for pediatric services: does it make a difference?
• Update on the status and future of acute care surgery: 10 years later.
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale (OIS): Past, present, and future.
• Acute care surgery: Now that we have built it, will they come?
• Pre-hospital transport times and survival for Hypotensive patients with penetrating thoracic trauma.
• Evaluation of distracting pain and clinical judgment in cervical spine clearance of trauma patients.
• Implications of alcohol intoxication at the time of burn and smoke inhalation injury: an epidemiologic and clinical analysis.
• Dead men tell no tales: analysis of the use of autopsy reports in trauma system performance improvement activities.
• Effect of a voluntary trauma system on preventable death and inappropriate care in a rural state.
• Reducing trauma payment denials with computerized collaborative billing.
• Mechanism of injury does not predict acuity or level of service need: field triage criteria revisited.
• Ten year experience of burn, trauma, and combined burn/trauma injuries comparing outcomes.
• Urgent airways after trauma: who gets pneumonia?
• Medicare's bundling of trauma care codes violates relative value principles.
• Analysis of prior health system contacts as a harbinger of subsequent fatal injury in American Indians.
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia in injured patients: do you trust your Gram''s stain?
• Factors affecting emergency department assessment and management of pain in children.
• The position of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma on the future of trauma surgery.
• Neurosurgical coverage: essential, desired, or irrelevant for good patient care and trauma center status.
• Half-a-dozen ribs: the breakpoint for mortality.
• Old fashion clinical judgment in the era of protocols: is mandatory chest X-ray necessary in injured patients?
• Combined percutaneous and angiographic thrombosis of a traumatic hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm in a child.
• Reasons to omit digital rectal exam in trauma patients: no fingers, no rectum, no useful additional information.
• The shape of things to come: results from a national survey of trauma surgeons on issues concerning their future.
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia, like real estate: location really matters.
• Predictors of the need for nephrectomy after renal trauma.
• Making the case for a paradigm shift in trauma surgery.
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia after combined burn and trauma is caused by associated injuries and not the burn wound.
• Trauma surgeons practice what they preach: The NTDB story on solid organ injury management.
• Socioeconomic factors, medicolegal issues, and trauma patient transfer trends: Is there a connection?
• Nutritional gain versus financial gain: The role of metabolic carts in the surgical ICU.
• Do we need neurosurgical coverage in the trauma center?
• Attempted suicide and the elderly trauma patient: risk factors and outcomes.
• Comparison of routine chest radiograph versus clinician judgment to determine adequate central line placement in critically ill patients.
• Moving the cheese: a commentary on debate over the acute care surgery initiative.
• Clinician vs mathematical statistical models: which is better at predicting an abnormal chest radiograph finding in injured patients?
• Medicare's "Global" terrorism: where is the pay for performance?
• Broken bones and orthopedist groans: can an acute care surgeon fix both?
• Invited critique: learner satisfaction with web-based learning as an adjunct to clinical experience in burn surgery.
• Research: questions and answers from academic trauma surgeons.
• Rank and file weighs in on trauma and general surgery issues: results frow a survey of ACS Fellows.
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale I: spleen, liver, and kidney, validation based on the National Trauma Data Bank.
• A clustering of injury behaviors.
• Commentary on Raum et al--Emergency trauma score.
• Surgical resident perceptions of trauma surgery as a specialty.
• Comparison of outcomes after laparoscopic versus open appendectomy for acute appendicitis at 222 ACS NSQIP hospitals.
• Analysis of compliance and outcomes in a trauma system with a 2-hour transfer rule.
• Analysis of preventable trauma deaths and opportunities for trauma care improvement in utah.
• Lower extremity vascular injuries: increased mortality for minorities and the uninsured?
• Illinois trauma centers and intimate partner violence: are we doing our share?
• A comparison of the abilities of nine scoring algorithms in predicting mortality.
• Analysis of preventable pediatric trauma deaths and inappropriate trauma care in Montana.
• Routine pelvic x-ray studies in awake blunt trauma patients: a sensible policy?
• General surgeons and the Advanced Trauma Life Support course: is it time to refocus?
• Analysis of preventable trauma deaths and inappropriate trauma care in a rural state.
• Do prehospital trauma center triage criteria identify major trauma victims?
• Perception of differences between trauma care and other surgical emergencies: results from a national survey of surgeons.
• Trauma care fellowships: current status and future survival.
• Changing epidemiology of injury-related pediatric mortality in a rural state: implications for injury control.
• Pseudoaneurysms of the extremity without fracture: treatment with percutaneous ultrasound-guided thrombin injection.
• The role of diagnostic laparoscopy in the management of trauma patients: a preliminary assessment.
• The value of quality-adjusted life years: commentary on Séguin et al.
• Laparoscopic injection of fibrin glue to arrest intraparenchymal abdominal hemorrhage: an experimental study.
• Appendicitis after laparoscopic appendectomy: a warning.
• Traumatic lumbar hernia: case report and literature review.
• Trauma and trauma care systems: in the throes of an identity crisis: a plea for changing the vernacular and the mind-set.
• Trauma in pregnancy: normal Revised Trauma Score in relation to other markers of maternofetal status--a preliminary study.
• Violence in America: a public health crisis--domestic violence.
• Reappraisal of emergency room thoracotomy in a changing environment.
• The impact of variation in trauma care times: urban versus rural.
• State trauma system evaluation: a unique and comprehensive approach.
• Why surgeons prefer not to care for trauma patients.
• A statewide profile of general surgery trauma practice.
• What is the meaning of labels on trauma care?
• Analysis of surgical participation in the Advanced Trauma Life Support course. What are the goals and are we meeting them?
• Resuscitative thoracotomy performed in the operating room.
• Blunt injury to the diaphragm: an analysis of 44 patients.
• Trauma during pregnancy. A review of 79 cases.
• Blunt trauma during pregnancy: factors affecting fetal outcome.
• Evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma occurring during pregnancy.
• The rapid infusion system: a superior method for the resuscitation of hypovolemic trauma patients.
• Human immunodeficiency virus and infectious considerations.
• Trauma during pregnancy.
• Survival of male patients with incontinentia pigmenti carrying a lethal mutation can be explained by somatic mosaicism or Klinefelter syndrome.
• Non-left sided diaphragmatic rupture due to blunt trauma.
• Laparoscopic antireflux surgery: indications, preoperative evaluation, techniques, and outcomes.

Schools

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• Georgetown University

• St Elizabeths Hospital

• Harborview Med Center University Wash

• Miemss

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• St Elizabeth's Medical Center
• Georgetown University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1104892389
Last Name Of The Provider	ESPOSITO
First Name Of The Provider	THOMAS
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