Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Chief, Acute Care Surgery, Medical Director, Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Support Services, The Johns Hopkin
General Surgery
Dr. David T. Efron, MD
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David Efron works in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". David Efron is also published. He has 100 publications published. The lastest publication: "Metalloproteinase inhibitors and wound healing: a novel enhancer of wound strength.' David T. Efron, MD is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- A modified Kampala trauma score (KTS) effectively predicts mortality in trauma patients.
- Investigating the relationship between weather and violence in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Outcomes of trauma care at centers treating a higher proportion of older patients: The case for geriatric trauma centers.
- National estimates of predictors of outcomes for emergency general surgery.
- Unconscious Race and Social Class Bias Among Acute Care Surgical Clinicians and Clinical Treatment Decisions.
- Outcomes after emergency general surgery at teaching versus nonteaching hospitals.
- Incremental Cost of Emergency Versus Elective Surgery.
- Multidetector CT and three-dimensional CT angiography of upper extremity Arterial injury.
- Increased mortality associated with EMS transport of gunshot wound victims when compared to private vehicle transport.
- Explaining the Paradoxical Age-Based Racial Disparities in Survival After Trauma: The Role of the Treating Facility.
- Association Between Race and Age in Survival After Trauma.
- Benchmarking of Trauma Care Worldwide: The Potential Value of an International Trauma Data Bank (ITDB).
- Traumatic Hemoperitoneum.
- US emergency department visits for fireworks injuries, 2006-2010.
- Reply to letter: "Prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients: a National Trauma Data Bank Analysis".
- Reply to Letter: "Prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients".
- Association Between Intentional Injury and Long-Term Survival After Trauma.
- Spontaneous splenic rupture during induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia.
- Reply to Letter: "ATLS Protocols of Initial Intravenous Fluid Administration for Trauma Patients; Needing a Revision?"
- Does relative value unit-based compensation shortchange the acute care surgeon?
- General and Acute Care Surgical Procedures in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.
- Subxiphoid pericardial window to exclude occult cardiac injury after penetrating thoracoAbdominal trauma (Br J Surg 2013; 100: 1454-1458).
- Minority trauma patients tend to cluster at trauma centers with worse-than-expected mortality: can this phenomenon help explain racial disparities in trauma outcomes?
- Influencing Medical Student Education Via a Voluntary Shadowing Program for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
- Reliability adjustment: a necessity for trauma center ranking and benchmarking.
- Epidemiology and outcomes of non-compressible torso hemorrhage.
- Increased risk of pneumonia among ventilated patients with traumatic brain injury: every day counts!
- Counting the lives lost: how many black trauma deaths are attributable to disparities?
- State-by-state variation in emergency versus elective colon resections: Room for improvement.
- Comparative Effectiveness of Inhospital Trauma Resuscitation at a French Trauma Center and Matched Patients Treated in the United States.
- Predictors of sepsis in moderately severely injured patients: an Analysis of the national trauma data bank.
- Regional variations in cost of trauma care in the United States: who is paying more?
- Disparities in mortality after blunt injury: does insurance type matter?
- Beating the weekend trend: increased mortality in older adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted on weekends.
- Association between helmets and facial injury after a motorcycle collision: an Analysis of more than 40 000 patients from the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Predictors of short-term mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy.
- Premorbid Statin Use Is Associated With Improved Survival and Functional Outcomes in Older Head-Injured Individuals.
- Racial, ethnic, and insurance status disparities in use of posthospitalization care after trauma.
- Association Between Hospitals Caring for a Disproportionately High Percentage of Minority Trauma Patients and Increased Mortality: A Nationwide Analysis of 434 Hospitals.
- Association of unconscious race and social class bias with vignette-based clinical assessments by medical students.
- Mechanism of injury predicts case fatality and functional outcomes in pediatric trauma patients: the case for its use in trauma outcomes studies.
- Redefining hypotension in the elderly: normotension is not reassuring.
- Factors affecting the likelihood of presentation to the emergency department of trauma patients after discharge.
- Predictors of Positive Head CT Scan and Neurosurgical Procedures After Minor Head Trauma.
- Do trauma safety-net hospitals deliver truly safe trauma care? A multilevel Analysis of the national trauma data bank.
- Treatment outcomes of injured children at adult level 1 trauma centers: are there benefits from added specialized care?
- Global surgical package reimbursement and the acute care surgeon: a threat to optimal care.
- Motorcycle helmets associated with lower risk of cervical spine injury: debunking the myth.
- Prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients: a National Trauma Data Bank Analysis.
- An assessment of the impact of pregnancy on trauma mortality.
- Multiple imputation in trauma disparity research.
- Duplex ultrasound screening for deep vein Thrombosis in asymptomatic trauma patients: a survey of individual trauma surgeon opinions and current trauma center practices.
- Impact of nutritional support on clinical outcome in patients at nutritional risk: a multicenter, prospective cohort study in Baltimore and Beijing teaching hospitals.
- Evidence of hormonal basis for improved survival among females with trauma-associated shock: an Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Pedestrians struck by motor vehicles further worsen race- and insurance-based disparities in trauma outcomes: the case for inner-city pedestrian injury prevention prog...
- Racial disparities in motorcycle-related mortality: an Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Simplifying physiologic injury severity measurement for predicting trauma outcomes.
- Spine immobilization in penetrating trauma: more harm than good?
- Motorcycle helmets save lives, but not limbs: a National Trauma Data Bank Analysis of functional outcomes after motorcycle crash.
- Females have fewer complications and lower mortality following trauma than similarly injured males: a risk adjusted Analysis of adults in the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Surgeon- and system-based influences on trauma mortality.
- Mechanism of injury predicts patient mortality and impairment after blunt trauma.
- Predictors of posttraumatic deep vein thrombosis (DVT): hospital practice versus patient factors-an Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).
- Comparative survey on nutritional risk and nutritional support between Beijing and Baltimore teaching hospitals.
- Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality.
- Surveillance bias and deep vein Thrombosis in the national trauma data bank: the more we look, the more we find.
- The occurrence of potential patient safety events among trauma patients: are they random?
- Hazards of benchmarking complications with the National Trauma Data Bank: numerators in search of denominators.
- Preinjury statin use is associated with improved in-hospital survival in elderly trauma patients.
- Can increased incidence of deep vein Thrombosis (DVT) be used as a marker of quality of care in the absence of standardized screening? The potential effect of surveill...
- Mortality in adolescent girls vs boys following traumatic shock: an Analysis of the National Pediatric Trauma Registry.
- Laterality of deep venous Thrombosis among trauma patients: are we screening our patients adequately?
- Black children experience worse clinical and functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury: an Analysis of the National Pediatric Trauma Registry.
- Injured patients have lower mortality when treated by "full-time" trauma surgeons vs. surgeons who cover trauma "part-time".
- Alarming surge in nonsurvivable urban trauma and the case for violence prevention.
- Patterns and outcomes among penetrating trauma recidivists: it only gets worse.
- Video-assisted thoracic surgery removal of foreign bodies after penetrating chest trauma.
- The current management of gastroIntestinal stromal tumors.
- Central pancreatectomy with Pancreaticogastrostomy for benign Pancreatic pathology.
- Tumor suppressor gene hypermethylation as a predictor of gastric stromal tumor behavior.
- Supplemental L-arginine enhances wound healing in diabetic rats.
- Modulation of growth factor and cytokine expression by nitric oxide during rat colon anastomotic healing.
- Subcutaneous sponge models.
- Characterization of Incisional wound healing in inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice.
- Effect of supplemental ornithine on wound healing.
- Retained drains causing a bronchoperitoneal fistula: a case report.
- Multiple, simultaneous trauma patients: Are they worse off?
- The role of iNOS in wound healing.
- Metalloproteinase inhibitors and wound healing: a novel enhancer of wound strength.
- Effect of nutritional route on colonic anastomotic healing in the rat.
- Expression and function of inducible nitric oxide synthase during rat colon anastomotic healing.
- Supplemental dietary arginine enhances wound healing in normal but not inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice.
- Nitric oxide in the healing wound: a time-course study.
- A novel method of studying wound healing.
- Arginine enhances wound healing and lymphocyte immune responses in humans.
- Inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-alpha attenuates wound breaking strength in rats.
- Differential cytokine expression in skin graft healing in inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice.
- Validating the Injury Severity Score (ISS) in different populations: ISS predicts mortality better among Hispanics and females.
- Trauma and wound healing: role of the route of nutritional support.
Schools
Brown University Alpert Medical School
Johns Hopkins University School Med
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anorectal Abscess
- Appendicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1437190063 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | EFRON |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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