Professor, Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. David E. Wesson, MD
David Wesson is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He received 3 awards: "Top MD", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FACS)". David E. Wesson is a published doctor. He has 100 publications published. The most current publication "Outcome after ileoanal anastomosis in pediatric patients with ulcerative colitis."
Publications
- Feeding gastrostomy in children with complex heart disease: when is a fundoplication indicated?
- Evaluating the impact of infliximab use on surgical outcomes in pediatric Crohn's disease.
- Role of the surgeon in non-accidental trauma.
- Resource utilization after gastrostomy tube placement: Defining areas of improvement for future quality improvement projects.
- Overuse of fluoroscopic gastrostomy studies in a children's hospital.
- Trauma surgeon becomes consultant: evaluation of a protocol for management of intermediate-level trauma patients.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a discharge protocol for children with advanced Appendicitis.
- Modification of an evidence-based protocol for advanced Appendicitis in children.
- Extrarenal Wilms tumor: a case report and review of the literature.
- The importance of surgeon involvement in the evaluation of non-accidental trauma patients.
- Risk factors for surgery in pediatric intussusception in the era of pneumatic reduction.
- Pediatric trauma centers: coming of age.
- Report of past meeting 61st Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery-American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Pediatric blunt and penetrating trauma deaths in Ontario: a population-based study.
- Preventable pediatric trauma deaths in Ontario: a comparative population-based study.
- Trends in pediatric and adult bicycling deaths before and after passage of a bicycle helmet law.
- Endoscopic pneumatic reduction of a pediatric ileo-ileocolic intussusception during diagnostic colonoscopy.
- Severe dysplasia in children with familial adenomatous polyposis: rare or simply overlooked?
- Surgery for peptic ulcer disease in children in the post-histamine2-blocker era.
- Renal tumors in infants less than 6 months of age.
- Advances in fetal and neonatal surgery for gastrointestinal anomalies and disease.
- Trends in bicycling-related head injuries in children after implementation of a community-based bike helmet campaign.
- Preventable pediatric trauma deaths in a metropolitan region.
- Evaluation of pediatric trauma care in Ontario.
- Evaluation of a subsidy program to increase bicycle helmet use by children of low-income families.
- Evaluating a pediatric trauma program: effectiveness versus preventable death rate.
- Evaluation of a promotional strategy to increase bicycle helmet use by children.
- Current bicycle helmet ownership, use and related factors among school-aged children in metropolitan Toronto.
- Fatal bicycle accidents in children: a plea for prevention.
- The pediatric passenger: trends in seatbelt use and injury patterns.
- Diagnosis and incidence of cardiac injury in children with blunt thoracic trauma.
- Blunt cardiac injuries in children: a postmortem study.
- Functional limitations and recovery in children with severe trauma: a one-year follow-up.
- Splenic injury: a 5-year update with improved results and changing criteria for conservative management.
- Surgery for ovarian masses in infants, children, and adolescents: 102 consecutive patients treated in a 15-year period.
- Postoperative ad lib feeding for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
- Functional outcome in pediatric trauma.
- The impact of ultrasound examinations on the management of children with suspected Appendicitis: a 3-year analysis.
- Peritoneal drainage as definitive treatment for neonates with isolated intestinal perforation.
- The physical, psychological, and socioeconomic costs of pediatric trauma.
- Tobogganing injuries in children.
- Parental attitudes toward legislation for helmet use by child cyclists.
- Pediatric injuries: parental knowledge, attitudes and needs.
- Thoracic vascular injuries: a post mortem study.
- Bicycling exposure and severe injuries in school-age children. A population-based study.
- Timing of surgery for congenital diaphragmatic Hernia: is emergency operation necessary?
- Blunt injury to the pancreas in children: selective management based on ultrasound.
- Respiratory failure due to retained esophagus: a complication of esophageal replacement.
- Straight ileoanal anastomosis and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis in the surgical management of idiopathic ulcerative colitis and familial polyposis coli in children: fol...
- Outcome after ileoanal anastomosis in pediatric patients with ulcerative colitis.
- Feeding gastrostomy in neurologically impaired children: is an antireflux procedure necessary?
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus open cholecystectomy in children: which is better?
- Evaluation of a new catheter for total parenteral nutrition.
- A 13-year experience with peritoneal drainage under local anesthesia for necrotizing enterocolitis perforation.
- Percutaneous drainage of traumatic pancreatic pseudocysts in children.
- Central venous catheters--no X-rays needed: a prospective study in 50 consecutive infants and children.
- Fatal and non-fatal childhood injuries in Metropolitan Toronto, 1986-1991.
- Risk factors for extended disruption of family function after severe injury to a child.
- Injury scoring systems in children.
- Bicycle helmets: effective protection.
- Primary peritoneal drainage for increasing ventilatory requirements in critically ill neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis.
- The relationship between PaCO2 and ventilation parameters in predicting survival in congenital diaphragmatic Hernia.
- The real incidence of pediatric trauma.
- Factors influencing postoperative recurrence of Crohn''s disease in childhood.
- Juvenile hemangiomas involving the thoracic trachea in children: report of two cases.
- Unilateral pulmonary agenesis with esophageal atresia and distal tracheoesophageal fistula: report of two cases.
- Effect of esophageal ligation on the growth of fetal rabbits.
- Esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula: associated anomalies and prognosis in the 1980s.
- Recurrent pheochromocytomas in children.
- Complications of gastroesophageal antireflux surgery in neurologically impaired versus neurologically normal children.
- Home injuries to children.
- Thrombosis of the portal venous system after splenectomy for pediatric hematologic disease.
- Prograde dilatation with Tucker bougies: a technique for managing postoperative rectal strictures.
- Results of bowel resection for Crohn's disease in the young.
- Perforation during attempted intussusception reduction in children--a comparison of perforation with barium and air.
- Injury severity, whole body protein turnover, and energy expenditure in pediatric trauma.
- Traumatic duodenal hematoma in the pediatric patient.
- [Ileoanal anastomosis with and without reservoir in children and adolescents with ulcerative rectocolitis and familial polyposis].
- Total-body protein turnover in parenterally fed neonates: effects of energy source studied by using [15N]glycine and [1-13C]leucine.
- Large adrenal cysts in teenage girls: diagnosis and management.
- Ultrasonographic and clinical predictors of intussusception.
- Emergency management of blunt trauma in children.
- Traumatology today: old dogma, new directions. Presidential address to the 5th annual meeting of the Trauma Association of Canada/L'Association Canadienne de Traumatol...
- Intraoperative autotransfusion in blunt abdominal trauma.
- Risk factors for severe injuries associated with falls from playground equipment.
- A pancreatic cyst of the anterior mediastinum.
- Artificial beta-cell promotes positive nitrogen balance and whole body protein synthesis in insulin-dependent diabetic subjects.
- Current status of pancreatectomy for persistent idiopathic neonatal hypoglycemia due to islet cell dysplasia.
- A comparison of the estimates of whole-body protein turnover in parenterally fed neonates obtained using three different end products.
- What does bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) measure?
- Field triage--help or hindrance?
- Laparotomy or drain for perforated necrotizing enterocolitis: who gets what and why?
- Vascular relaxation probably mediates the antihypertensive effect of a high-potassium diet: a role for enhanced vascular Na,K-ATPase activity.
- The H2O2-generating enzyme, xanthine oxidase, decreases luminal Ca2+ content of the IP3-sensitive Ca2+ store in vascular endothelial cells.
- A symptomatic atypical mycobacterial infection masquerading as a vascular ring on chest x-ray.
- Role of dietary factors in the hypertension of African Americans.
- Intussusception in children 2 years of age or older.
- Xanthine oxidase inhibits transmembrane signal transduction in vascular endothelial cells.
- Augmented bidirectional HCO3 transport by rat distal tubules in chronic alkalosis.
Schools
University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine
Toronto General Hospital
Hospital For Sick Chldn
University Of Toronto
Harvard University
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Port Placements or Replacements
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Conditions Treated
- Appendicitis
- Testicular Cancer
- Ventral Hernia
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Texas Children's Hospital -
St. Joseph Medical Center -
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
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