Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. C W. Schwab Jr., MD
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Schwab works in the field of General Surgery. He went to State University of New York Upstate Medical University. C W. Schwab Jr., MD is a published doctor and has 101 publications published. The lastest was: 'Invivo leukocyte-mediated brain microcirculatory inflammation: a comparison ofosmotherapies and progesterone in severe traumatic brain injury.'
Publications
- In vivo leukocyte-mediated brain microcirculatory inflammation: a comparison of osmotherapies and progesterone in severe traumatic brain injury.
- Defining the optimal time to the operating room may salvage early trauma deaths.
- There's no place like home: Boarding surgical ICU patients in other ICUs and the effect of distances from the home unit.
- Early hospital readmission in the trauma population: Are the risk factors different?
- Contemporary comparison of surgical and interventional arteriography management of blunt renal injury.
- Weekend and Night Outcomes in a Statewide Trauma System.
- Reduced brain tissue oxygen in traumatic brain injury: are most commonly used interventions successful?
- An organized, comprehensive, and security-enabled strategic response to the Haiti earthquake: a description of pre-deployment readiness preparation and preliminary exp...
- Emergency department thoracotomy for gunshot wounds of the heart and great vessels.
- Robot-assisted ureteroureterostomy in the adult: initial clinical series.
- Acute care surgeons and emergency traumatologists: a partnership for patient care.
- Emergency department thoracotomy for penetrating injuries of the heart and great vessels: an appraisal of 283 consecutive cases from two urban trauma centers.
- Factors associated with mortality and brain injury after falls from the standing position.
- Emergency traumatologists as partners in trauma care: the future is now.
- Necrotizing fasciitis: current concepts and review of the literature.
- Transition to a semiclosed surgical intensive care unit (SICU) leads to improved resident job satisfaction: a prospective, longitudinal analysis.
- Pancreatic trauma: demographics, diagnosis, and management.
- Regionalization of medical critical care: what can we learn from the trauma experience?
- Critical care nurse practitioners improve compliance with clinical practice guidelines in "semiclosed" surgical intensive care unit.
- Usefulness of adrenal vein sampling in the evaluation of aldosteronism.
- Improving the recruitment and hiring process for women faculty.
- Transthoracic echocardiography for pulmonary embolism in the ICU: finding the "right" findings.
- Outcomes related to the number and anatomic placement of gunshot wounds.
- Military-civilian collaboration in trauma care and the senior visiting surgeon program.
- The surgeon and the intensivist: reaching consensus in intensive care triage.
- Magnetic resonance imaging is a useful adjunct in the evaluation of the cervical spine of injured patients.
- American College of Surgeons criteria for surgeon presence at initial trauma resuscitations: superfluous or necessary?
- Emergency department length of stay: a major risk factor for pneumonia in intubated blunt trauma patients.
- William T. "Billy" Fitts Jr, MD: an AAST visionary.
- Poor glycemic control is associated with increased mortality in critically ill trauma patients.
- Acute care surgery: the academic hospital's perspective.
- Digital output volumetric pulmonary artery catheters eliminate interoperator interpretation variability and improve consistency of treatment decisions.
- Damage control resuscitation: directly addressing the early coagulopathy of trauma.
- Crises and war: stepping stones to the future.
- An acute care surgery model improves outcomes in patients with appendicitis.
- The future of emergency care for America: in crisis, at peril and in need of resuscitation!
- Anemia management program reduces transfusion volumes, incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, and cost in trauma patients.
- Transperitoneal laparoscopic pyeloplasty for pelvic kidneys with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in children: technique and preliminary outcomes.
- Analgesic use in intubated patients during acute resuscitation.
- Maintaining patient throughput on an evolving trauma/emergency surgery service.
- Improved nurse job satisfaction and job retention with the transition from a "mandatory consultation" model to a "semiclosed" surgical intensive care unit: a 1-year pr...
- Respiratory complications and mortality risk associated with thoracic spine injury.
- The inefficiency of plain radiography to evaluate the cervical spine after blunt trauma.
- Bilateral dismembered laparoscopic pediatric pyeloplasty via a transperitoneal 4-port approach.
- Use of goniometry to predict inadequate flexion-extension roentgenograms: a preliminary study.
- The evolving role of interventional radiology in trauma care.
- Access to trauma centers in the United States.
- The invisible trauma patient: emergency department discharges.
- The case for enhanced data collection of gun type.
- Anaphylactoid reaction to oral contrast for computed tomography.
- Urban-rural shifts in intentional firearm death: different causes, same results.
- Trauma center-community partnerships to address firearm injury: it can be done.
- Cumulative radiation dose caused by radiologic studies in critically ill trauma patients.
- Integrating emergency general surgery with a trauma service: impact on the care of injured patients.
- Management of penetrating colon and rectal injuries in the pediatric patient.
- Redefining the future of trauma surgery as a comprehensive trauma and emergency general surgery service.
- Effective trauma center partnerships to address firearm injury: a new paradigm.
- Trauma system development in North America.
- Level I center triage and mass casualties.
- Nonoperative management of abdominal gunshot wounds.
- Cerebral cortical oxygenation: a pilot study.
- Firearm homicide and firearm suicide: opposite but equal.
- Formalized radiology rounds: the final component of the tertiary survey.
- Training in trauma surgery: quantitative and qualitative aspects of a new paradigm for fellowship.
- Nonintracranial fatal firearm injuries in children: implications for treatment.
- Spontaneous resolution of vesicoureteral reflux: a 15-year perspective.
- Pelvic radiography in blunt trauma resuscitation: a diminishing role.
- Incidence and natural history of below-knee deep venous thrombosis in high-risk trauma patients.
- Abdominal compartment syndrome in the open abdomen.
- The role of positive examinations in training for the focused assessment sonogram in trauma (FAST) examination.
- Firearm injury in America.
- The rural-urban continuum: variability in statewide serious firearm injuries in children and adolescents.
- Evaluation of the lower spine after blunt trauma using abdominal computed tomographic scanning supplemented with lateral scanograms.
- Hepatic angiography in patients undergoing damage control laparotomy.
- Risk factors for violent death in children.
- Handsewn versus stapled anastomosis in penetrating colon injuries requiring resection: a multicenter study.
- Computed tomography in the evaluation of penetrating neck trauma: a preliminary study.
- Selection of nonoperative management candidates.
- Preoperative radiographic staging for ureteral injuries is not warranted in patients undergoing celiotomy for trauma.
- The role of nephrectomy in the acutely injured.
- Evolution in damage control for exsanguinating penetrating abdominal injury.
- Nonoperative management of solid abdominal organ injuries from blunt trauma: impact of neurologic impairment.
- Anaphylactic shock from a latex allergy in a patient with spinal trauma.
- Defining the learning curve for the Focused Abdominal Sonogram for Trauma (FAST) examination: implications for credentialing.
- Damage control: collective review.
- Integration of concurrent trauma registry and performance improvement programs.
- Bedside percutaneous versus open tracheostomy.
- Unsuspected child abuse revealed by delayed presentation of periportal tracking and myoglobinuria.
- The traveling intensive care unit patient. Road trips.
- Assessing the need for reintubation: a prospective evaluation of unplanned endotracheal extubation.
- Strategies to improve compliance with evidence-based clinical management guidelines.
- Hypomagnesemia in trauma patients.
- Improving the approach to organ donation: a review.
- Re: Velmahos, G.C., et al: Transpelvic gunshot wounds: routine laparotomy or selective management?
- Combined blunt cardiac and pericardial rupture: review of the literature and report of a new diagnostic algorithm.
- Aggressive treatment of 119 open fracture wounds.
- Time and motion: a study of trauma surgeons' work at the bedside during the first 24 hours of blunt trauma care.
- Gunshot wounds below the popliteal fossa: a contemporary review.
- Thickening of the diaphragm: a new computed tomography sign of diaphragm injury.
- Effects of an organized critical care service on outcomes and resource utilization: a cohort study.
Schools
Upstate Medical University College of Health Professions
Naval Reg Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Personal Choice PPO
- Regional Pref Network EPO
- Regional Pref Network HMO
- Regional Pref Network HMO+
- Regional Pref Network POS+
- Regional Pref Network PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Capital Blue Cross
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Community Blue PPO
- Advance EPO
- Direct Access
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Keystone Health Plan East HMO
- MultiPlan PPO
- Freedom Plan
- QualCare HMO
- QualCare PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- Oxford Liberty
Education
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Naval Medical Center -
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
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