Professor, Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Walter Biffl, MD
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Doctor Walter Biffl, MD practices General Surgery. He went to George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Regional Top Doctor" and "Fellow (FACS)". Dr. Walter Biffl is also a published doctor. He has 96 publication published. The most recent publication is: A prospective, controlled clinical evaluation of surgical stabilization of severe rib fractures. He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- A prospective, controlled clinical evaluation of surgical stabilization of severe rib fractures.
- Surgical stabilization of severe rib fractures.
- Rehabilitation of the Geriatric Surgical Patient: Predicting Needs and Optimizing Outcomes.
- Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Penetrating chest trauma.
- Assessing Awareness and Implementation of a Recommendation for Surgical Innovation Committees: A Survey of Academic Institutions.
- Delayed duodenal injury following Abdominal gunshot wound.
- Predictors of the necessity for early tracheostomy in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury: a 15-year experience.
- Early repeat imaging is not warranted for high-grade blunt cerebroVascular injuries.
- Management Guidelines for Penetrating Abdominal Trauma.
- Blunt Abdominal aortic injury: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study.
- EndoVascular stenting is rarely necessary for the management of blunt cerebroVascular injuries.
- Intra-Abdominal injury following blunt trauma becomes clinically apparent within 9 hours.
- Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of Pancreatic injuries.
- Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Penetrating neck trauma.
- Hypercoagulability following blunt solid Abdominal organ injury: when to initiate anticoagulation.
- Re: Mandatory exploration is not necessary for patients with acute diverticulitis and free intraperitoneal air.
- A Negative Urinalysis Rules Out Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
- Prophylactic Antibiotics in Open Fractures: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Safety Study.
- Acute Appendicitis: a disease severity score for the acute care surgeon.
- Effect of damage control surgery on major Abdominal vascular trauma.
- Blunt cerebroVascular injuries in the child.
- Validating the Western trauma association algorithm for managing patients with anterior Abdominal stab wounds: a Western trauma association multicenter trial.
- Surgeons provide definitive care to patients with gallstone pancreatitis.
- Initial experiences with point-of-care rapid thrombelastography for management of life-threatening postinjury coagulopathy.
- Preperitoneal pelvic packing/external fixation with secondary angioembolization: optimal care for life-threatening hemorrhage from unstable pelvic fractures.
- Computed tomographic angiography for blunt cerebroVascular injuries: don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
- "Leaning" the process of venous thromboEmbolism prophylaxis.
- Decreased Antibiotic Utilization After Implementation of a Guideline for Inpatient Cellulitis and Cutaneous Abscess.
- Current Concepts in Resuscitation.
- Imaging for blunt carotid and vertebral artery injuries.
- Refractory postinjury thrombocytopenia is associated with multiple organ failure and adverse outcomes.
- One thousand bedside percutaneous tracheostomies in the surgical intensive care unit: time to change the gold standard.
- Fatal gunshot wounds to the head: a critical appraisal of organ donation rates.
- Effect of blood products transfusion on the development of postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Progressive postinjury thrombocytosis is associated with thromboembolic complications.
- Primary fibrinolysis is integral in the pathogenesis of the acute coagulopathy of trauma.
- Patterns of early and late ventilator-associated pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a trauma population.
- Blunt cerebroVascular trauma.
- Postinjury coagulopathy management: goal directed resuscitation via POC thrombelastography.
- Computed tomographic angiography for blunt cerebroVascular injuries: is it good enough?
- Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: screening for and treatment of blunt cerebroVascular injuries.
- Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: nonoperative management of adult blunt hepatic trauma.
- Primary repair of civilian colon injuries is safe in the damage control scenario.
- Rapid thrombelastography (r-TEG) identifies hypercoagulability and predicts thromboembolic events in surgical patients.
- Noncitrated whole blood is optimal for evaluation of postinjury coagulopathy with point-of-care rapid thrombelastography.
- Diagnostic peritoneal lavage remains a valuable adjunct to modern imaging techniques.
- Local wound exploration remains a valuable triage tool for the evaluation of anterior Abdominal stab wounds.
- Treatment for blunt cerebroVascular injuries: equivalence of anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents.
- Validation of postinjury multiple organ failure scores.
- Management of patients with anterior Abdominal stab wounds: a Western Trauma Association multicenter trial.
- Recombinant human activated protein C inhibits integrin-mediated neutrophil migration.
- Pediatric blunt vertebral artery injury: case report and treatment plan.
- Effect of educational debt on career and quality of life among academic surgeons.
- Risk factors for delirium after major trauma.
- Postinjury life threatening coagulopathy: is 1:1 fresh frozen plasma:packed red blood cells the answer?
- Mass-casualty incidents: how does an ICU prepare?
- Beneficial versus detrimental effects of neutrophils are determined by the nature of the insult.
- Splenic artery embolization: Have we gone too far?
- Sixteen-slice computed tomographic angiography is a reliable noninvasive screening test for clinically significant blunt cerebroVascular injuries.
- Prestorage leukoreduction prevents accumulation of matrix metalloproteinase 9 in stored blood.
- Halo-vest immobilization increases early morbidity and mortality in elderly odontoid fractures.
- Silencing of Fas, but not caspase-8, in Lung epithelial cells ameliorates pulmonary apoptosis, inflammation, and neutrophil influx after hemorrhagic shock and sepsis.
- Halo vest immobilization in the elderly: a death sentence?
- The evolution of trauma care at a level I trauma center.
- Transfer times to definitive care facilities are too long: a consequence of an immature trauma system.
- Expert witness testimony: the problem and recommendations for oversight and reform.
- Lessons learned from a nightclub fire: institutional disaster preparedness.
- The station nightclub fire.
- Pediatric trauma patients with isolated airway compromise or Glasgow Coma Scale less than 8: does immediate attending surgeon's presence upon arrival make a difference?
- Selective clinical management of anterior Abdominal stab wounds.
- Radiographic characteristics of postinjury splenic autotransplantation: avoiding a diagnostic dilemma.
- Needle thoracostomy: a cautionary note.
- Anticoagulation is the gold standard therapy for blunt carotid injuries to reduce stroke rate.
- Transfusion of the injured patient: proceed with caution.
- Legal prosecution of alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to a level I trauma center in Rhode Island.
- Isolated brain injury as a cause of hypotension in the blunt trauma patient.
- Diagnosis of blunt cerebroVascular injuries.
- The station nightclub fire and disaster preparedness in Rhode Island.
- Medical disasters: are we really prepared? An Analysis of the station fire.
- Cervical spine fracture patterns predictive of blunt vertebral artery injury.
- Extracranial vertebral artery Dissection.
- Clinically relevant hypertonicity prevents stored blood- and lipid-mediated delayed neutrophil apoptosis independent of p38 MAPK or caspase-3 activation.
- Implementation of a tertiary trauma survey decreases missed injuries.
- Predicting failure of outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- Noninvasive diagnosis of blunt cerebroVascular injuries: a preliminary report.
- Nutrition support of the trauma patient.
- Patient evaluation and management with selective use of magnetic resonance cholangiography (MRC) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) before lapar...
- Lung-sparing techniques are associated with improved outcome compared with anatomic resection for severe Lung injuries.
- Hyperosmolarity abrogates neutrophil cytotoxicity provoked by post-shock mesenteric lymph.
- Increased rate of infection associated with transfusion of old blood after severe injury.
- The Outreach Trauma Program: a model for survival of the academic trauma center.
- Treatment-related outcomes from blunt cerebroVascular injuries: importance of routine follow-up arteriography.
- Evaluation of a new technique for bedside percutaneous tracheostomy.
- Suboptimal compliance with surgical safety checklists in Colorado: A prospective observational study reveals differences between surgical specialties.
- OEsophageal injuries: Position paper, WSES, 2013.
Schools
George Washington University School Of Medicine and Health Sciences
University Of Colorado University Hospital Program
University Of Colorado
Denver General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Colectomy
- Decortication and Pleurectomy
- 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
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Pathway X Bronze Direct CACA IN HIX
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Bakery & Confectionary Union Plan
- Blue Card PPO
- CHAMPVA
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Cofinity PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Golden Rule
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Colorado -
George Washington University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Denver Health
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1962408260 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BIFFL |
| First Name Of The Provider | WALTER |
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