Professor of Surgery, University Pittsburgh
General Surgery
Dr. Andrew B. Peitzman, MD
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Andrew B. Peitzman is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He over the years received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Pittsburgh Magazine", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FACS)". Andrew Peitzman is a published doctor as well. He has 70 publications published. The latest was: Damage control operations in non-trauma patients: defining criteria for the staged rapid source control laparotomy in emergency general surgery. Dr. Andrew B. Peitzman is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Geographic Variation in Outcome Benefits of Helicopter Transport for Trauma in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
- Not all prehospital time is equal: Influence of scene time on mortality.
- CT abbreviated assessment of sarcopenia following trauma: The CAAST measurement predicts 6-month mortality in older adult trauma patients.
- Femoral Hernias in Patients Undergoing Total Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Hernia Repair: Including Routine Evaluation of the Femoral Canal in Approaches to Inguinal He...
- Systolic blood pressure criteria in the National Trauma Triage Protocol for geriatric trauma: 110 is the new 90.
- Operative Risk Stratification in the Older Adult.
- Acute cholecystitis: When to operate and how to do it safely.
- Suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury II.
- Evidence-based improvement of the National Trauma Triage Protocol: The Glasgow Coma Scale versus Glasgow Coma Scale motor subscale.
- Characterization of the Sex Dimorphism Following Severe Thermal Injury.
- Decompressive craniectomy or medical management for refractory intracranial hypertension: An AAST-MIT propensity score analysis.
- Pretrauma Center Red Blood Cell Transfusion Is Associated With Reduced Mortality and Coagulopathy in Severely Injured Patients With Blunt Trauma.
- Anterior Thoracic Surgical Approaches in the Treatment of Spinal Infections and Neoplasms.
- Prehospital Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Is Associated With a Reduced Incidence of Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy.
- The swinging pendulum: A national perspective of nonoperative management in severe blunt liver injury.
- Multidisciplinary acute care research organization (MACRO): if you build it, they will come.
- American College of Surgeons trauma center verification versus state designation: are Level II centers slipping through the cracks?
- Use of a massive transfusion protocol in nontrauma patients: activate away.
- The association between air ambulance distribution and trauma mortality.
- Goal-directed resuscitation in the prehospital setting: A propensity-adjusted analysis.
- The role of acute care surgery in the treatment of severe, complicated Clostridium difficile-associated disease.
- Advanced operative techniques in the management of complex liver injury.
- Hypothermia in massive transfusion: have we been paying enough attention to it?
- Racial disparities and sex-based outcomes differences after severe injury.
- Predictors of acute posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following civilian trauma: Highest incidence and severity of symptoms after assault.
- Effect of the modified glasgow coma scale score criteria for mild traumatic brain injury on mortality prediction: comparing classic and modified glasgow coma scale sco...
- Assessment of platelet transfusion for reversal of aspirin after traumatic brain injury.
- Early lower extremity fracture fixation and the risk of early pulmonary embolus: filter before fixation?
- Improving mortality predictions in trauma patients undergoing damage control strategies.
- Trends in Survival and Early Functional Outcomes From Hospitalized Severe Adult Traumatic Brain Injuries, Pennsylvania, 1998 to 2007.
- Over reliance on computed tomography imaging in patients with severe abdominal injury: is the delay worth the risk?
- "Of courage undaunted": 2010 AAST Presidential Address.
- Challenging issues in surgical critical care, trauma, and acute care surgery: a report from the Critical Care Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of ...
- Surgical treatment of injuries to the solid abdominal organs: a 50-year perspective from the Journal of Trauma.
- Incidental radiographic findings after injury: dedicated attention results in improved capture, documentation, and management.
- Current management of hepatic trauma.
- Delay to therapeutic interventional radiology postinjury: time is of the essence.
- Frequency and follow-up of incidental findings on trauma computed tomography scans: experience at a level one trauma center.
- Institutional protocol improves retrievable inferior vena cava filter recovery rate.
- Nonoperative management of blunt abdominal trauma: have we gone too far?
- The effects of trauma center care, admission volume, and surgical volume on paralysis after traumatic spinal cord injury.
- Technical challenges and utility of anterior exposure for thoracic spine pathology.
- Hepatic resection in the management of complex injury to the liver.
- An FFP:PRBC transfusion ratio >/=1:1.5 is associated with a lower risk of mortality after massive transfusion.
- MRI is unnecessary to clear the cervical spine in obtunded/comatose trauma patients: the four-year experience of a level I trauma center.
- Increased interactive format for Morbidity & Mortality conference improves educational value and enhances confidence.
- Defining the contribution of renal dysfunction to outcome after traumatic injury.
- Angiography for blunt splenic trauma does not improve the success rate of nonoperative management.
- Evaluation of a 15-year experience with splenic injuries in a state trauma system.
- Failure of nonoperative management of abdominal solid organ injuries.
- Nonoperative management of severe blunt splenic injury: are we getting better?
- Damage-control laparotomy.
- Is outcome after blunt splenic injury in adults better in high-volume trauma centers?
- Admission hypothermia and outcome after major trauma.
- Cytochrome P-450 activity is differentially altered in severely injured patients.
- Variability in trauma center outcomes for patients with moderate intracranial injury.
- Out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation and outcome after traumatic brain injury.
- The Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine at the University Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Management of adult blunt splenic injuries: comparison between level I and level II trauma centers.
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation consultation: relationships with acute functional outcome, length of stay, and discharge planning after traumatic brain injury.
- Characterization of the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in rat and human liver during hemorrhagic shock.
- Hepatic dysfunction increases length of stay and risk of death after injury.
- A brief episode of hypotension increases mortality in critically ill trauma patients.
- TRISS unexpected survivors: an outdated standard?
- The modulation of hepatic injury and heat shock expression by inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase after hemorrhagic shock.
- Massive transfusion protocol activation does not result in preferential use of older red blood cells.
- Damage control operations in non-trauma patients: defining criteria for the staged rapid source control laparotomy in emergency general surgery.
- Oesophageal injuries: Position paper, WSES, 2013.
- Variation in the BDNF gene interacts with age to predict mortality in a prospective, longitudinal cohort with severe TBI.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
University Of Pittsburgh
Ny Hospital Cornell
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Pittsburgh Magazine
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside -
UPMC Passavant
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1386619815 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | PEITZMAN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ANDREW | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152132546 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 30.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 11.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 36.67 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1386619815 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | PEITZMAN |
| First Name Of The Provider | ANDREW |
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