Professor Surgery and Pediatrics
General Surgery
Dr. Victor F. Garcia, MD
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Victor F. Garcia practices General Surgery. He went to medical school at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Victor Garcia is also a published physician. He has 68 paper published. The most recent paper is: Differential effects of hyperoxia on the inducible and constitutive isoforms of nitric oxide synthase in the lung. Victor Garcia accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- A paradigm for achieving successful pediatric trauma verification in the absence of pediatric surgical specialists while ensuring quality of care.
- Use of a mild traumatic brain injury guideline to reduce inpatient hospital imaging and charges.
- Unnatural Causes: Social Determinants of Child Health and Well-being.
- Unnecessary imaging, not hospital distance, or transportation mode impacts delays in the transfer of injured children.
- Severity of head computed tomography scan findings fail to explain racial differences in mortality following child abuse.
- Baseline BMI is a strong predictor of nadir BMI after adolescent gastric bypass.
- Reversal of type 2 diabetes mellitus and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors after surgical weight loss in adolescents.
- Despite overall low pediatric head injury mortality, disparities exist between races.
- Multidisciplinary pediatric trauma team training using high-fidelity trauma simulation.
- Reversibility of cardiac abnormalities in morbidly obese adolescents.
- Alarming trends in the improper use of motor vehicle restraints in children: implications for public policy and the development of race-based strategies for improving ...
- Disparities in child abuse mortality are not explained by injury severity.
- Preferential loss of central (trunk) adiposity in adolescents and young adults after laparoscopic gastric bypass.
- The epidemiology of infant injuries and alarming health disparities.
- Development, implementation and evaluation of a unique African-American faith-based approach to increase automobile restraint use.
- Complications of nonoperative management of pediatric blunt hepatic injury: Diagnosis, management, and outcomes.
- Effect of safety education on classmates of injured children: a prospective clinical trial.
- Pediatric trauma nurse practitioners increase bedside nurses' satisfaction with pediatric trauma patient care.
- The effect of a right-sided aortic arch on outcome in children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.
- Nonoperative management of pectus carinatum.
- Pediatric trauma nurse practitioners provide excellent care with superior patient satisfaction for injured children.
- Family perception: quality of life following a child's traumatic injury.
- Managing bariatric patients in a children's hospital: radiologic considerations and limitations.
- Adolescent bariatric surgery: treatment delayed may be treatment denied.
- Surgical approach to adolescent obesity.
- Beriberi after gastric bypass surgery in adolescence.
- Bariatric surgery for severely overweight adolescents: concerns and recommendations.
- Use of artificial intelligence to identify cardiovascular compromise in a model of hemorrhagic shock.
- Pediatric trauma: beyond the brain.
- Application of laparoscopy for bariatric surgery in adolescents.
- All-terrain vehicle and bicycle crashes in children: epidemiology and comparison of injury severity.
- The use of laparoscopy in the management of seat belt trauma in children.
- Colon interposition for the short bowel syndrome.
- Prostaglandin and tumor necrosis factor levels in early wound inflammatory fluid: effects of parenteral omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid administration.
- Animal bites and Pasturella infections.
- Hypoxia/reoxygenation affects endotoxin tolerance.
- Decreased pulmonary compliance is an early indicator of pulmonary oxygen injury.
- Differential effects of hyperoxia on the inducible and constitutive isoforms of nitric oxide synthase in the lung.
- Dietary fish oil enhances macrophage production of nitric oxide.
- Low-level expression and limited role for the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase in the vascular hyporeactivity and mortality associated with cecal ligation an...
- Antimicrobial therapy of Broviac catheter infections in pediatric hematology oncology patients.
- Complications of gastroesophageal antireflux surgery in neurologically impaired versus neurologically normal children.
- Percutaneous subclavian venous catheters in neonates and children.
- Weanling and adult rats differ in fatty acid and carnitine metabolism during sepsis.
- Acute pancreatitis and increased intracranial pressure.
- Penetrating abdominal air gun injuries: pitfalls in recognition and management.
- Nitric oxide: an overview.
- Thoracic trauma in children: an indicator of increased mortality.
- Tungiasis in North America: a report of 2 cases in internationally adopted children.
- The interval between a septic stimulus and hypoxia/reoxygenation affects cytokine elaboration by murine peritoneal macrophages.
- Selective inhibition of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase prevents pulmonary transvascular flux during acute endotoxemia.
- Rib fractures in children: a marker of severe trauma.
- Spontaneous recanalization of the pancreatic duct: case report and review.
- Pediatric pelvic fractures combined with an additional skeletal injury is an indicator of significant injury.
- Pneumococcal pleural empyemas in children.
- Splenic injury diagnosed with CT: US follow-up and healing rate in children and adolescents.
- Chronic respiratory distress caused by radiolucent esophageal foreign body.
- Orthopaedic injuries in children secondary to airbag deployment.
- Patterns of injury in children.
- Pancreatic trauma in children: mechanisms of injury.
- The New Injury Severity Score and the evaluation of pediatric trauma.
- Delayed diagnosis in pediatric blunt trauma.
- Absent peritoneal fluid on screening trauma ultrasonography in children: a prospective comparison with computed tomography.
- Selective nonoperative management of pediatric blunt splenic trauma: risk for missed associated injuries.
- Cervical spine injuries in children: a review of 103 patients treated consecutively at a level 1 pediatric trauma center.
- One-year outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbidly obese adolescents: a multicenter study from the Pediatric Bariatric Study Group.
- Adolescent bariatric surgery: treatment delayed, treatment denied, a crisis invited.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
Walter Reed Med Center
Children39s Hospital Of Philadelphia
Procedures Preformed
- Excision of Breast Tumor
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
- Laparotomy
Conditions Treated
- Anorectal Abscess
- Hidradenitis
- Inguinal Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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