Associate Professor, Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine

General Surgery

Paula Ferrada is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She over the years received 13 awards: "Highest Evaluation Medical Student Award", "Educational Innovation Award Nomination", "Shining knight Award", "Young Surgeon Representative", "Outstanding Teaching Award", "National Ultrasound Faculty(NUF)", "Patients Choice Award", "Leadership Scholarship Award", "3rd place, Research Competition", "Honorary member", "Excellence as a Resident Teacher Award", "Outstanding Teacher Award" and "Fellow". Paula Ferrada is also a published doctor. She has 24 publication published. The most recent publication is: Understanding Our Patient's Disparities and Needs: A Brief Report in the Use of a Spanish Lesson to Increase the Comfort Level during Trauma Situations. Paula Ferrada accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Understanding Our Patient's Disparities and Needs: A Brief Report in the Use of a Spanish Lesson to Increase the Comfort Level during Trauma Situations.
• Use of limited transthoracic echocardiography in patients with traumatic cardiac arrest decreases the rate of nontherapeutic thoracotomy and hospital costs.
• Timing and type of surgical treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
• Cadaver laboratory as a useful tool for resident training.
• Findings of a randomized controlled trial using limited transthoracic echocardiogram (LTTE) as a hemodynamic monitoring tool in the trauma bay.
• Catheter-Based Endovascular Damage-Control (CDET): Current Status and Future Directions.
• Pneumatosis Intestinalis Predictive Evaluation Study (PIPES): a multicenter epidemiologic study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
• A, B, C, D, echo: limited transthoracic echocardiogram is a useful tool to guide therapy for hypotension in the trauma bay--a pilot study.
• Blunt cardiac rupture: a challenging diagnosis.
• Flat inferior vena cava: indicator of poor prognosis in trauma and acute care surgery patients.
• Thin chest wall is an independent risk factor for the development of pneumothorax after chest tube removal.
• Qualitative assessment of the inferior vena cava: useful tool for the evaluation of fluid status in critically ill patients.
• Successful surgical treatment of emphysematous gastritis on a patient with poor cardiac function.
• Virginia Commonwealth University: committed to the professional growth of women in surgery.
• Limited transthoracic echocardiogram: so easy any trauma attending can do it.
• A case of sigmoid volvulus and floppy cecum: a therapeutic dilemma.
• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Is an Effective Treatment for Bile Leak After Severe Liver Trauma.
• Aberrant obturator artery: a hidden threat after pelvic fracture.
• Transthoracic focused rapid echocardiographic examination: real-time evaluation of fluid status in critically ill trauma patients.
• Nonoperative management of blunt abdominal trauma: have we gone too far?
• WSES SM (World Society of Emergency Surgery Summer Meeting) highlights: emergency surgery around the world (Brazil, Finland, USA).
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. Demonstration of unilateral absence of the palmar arch without collateral circulation.
• Obesity does not increase mortality after emergency surgery.

Schools

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• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterHarvard University

• Shock Trauma

• University Of Pittsburgh

Procedures Preformed

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• Abdominal Surgery
• Colon and Rectal Surgery
• Gallbladder Removal

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Highest Evaluation Medical Student Award
• Educational Innovation Award Nomination
• Shining knight Award
• Young Surgeon Representative
• Outstanding Teaching Award
• National Ultrasound Faculty(NUF)
• Patients Choice Award
• Leadership Scholarship Award
• 3rd place, Research Competition
• Honorary member
• Excellence as a Resident Teacher Award
• Outstanding Teacher Award
• Fellow

Education

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• University of Maryland
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Jackson Memorial Hospital - Jackson Health System
• Universidad del Valle Health Sciences

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1902076169
NPPES Provider LastName		FERRADA
NPPES Provider FirstName		PAULA
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		232985051
NPPES Provider State		VA
Specialty Description		General Surgery
Total Claim Count		11.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1902076169
Last Name Of The Provider	FERRADA
First Name Of The Provider	PAULA
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