Professor of Surgery University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
General Surgery
Dr. David A. Partrick, MD
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David Partrick is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He researched medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine. He received awards:"Regional Top Doctor" and "Fellow (FACS)". David Partrick is a published MD. He published 97 publications, including: 'Driveway crush injuries in young children: a highly lethal, devastating, and potentially preventable event.'
Publications
- Is Routine Upper Gastrointestinal Contrast Study Necessary prior to Laparoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement in Children?
- Pyloric stenosis-postoperative care on a nonsurgical ward.
- A pediatric specific shock index in combination with GMS identifies children with life threatening or severe traumatic brain injury.
- Altered pulmonary artery endothelial-smooth muscle cell interactions in experimental congenital diaphragmatic Hernia.
- Pediatric specific shock index accurately identifies severely injured children.
- Injured children are resistant to the adverse effects of early high volume crystalloid resuscitation.
- Intraoperative chest tube removal following thoracoscopic lung biopsy results in improved outcomes.
- A multidisciplinary approach to the management of anterior mediastinal masses in children.
- Initial operative treatment of isolated ileal Crohn's disease in adolescents.
- Evolution of Minimally Invasive Techniques Within an Academic Surgical Practice at a Single Institution.
- Head injury pattern in children can help differentiate accidental from non-accidental trauma.
- Minimally invasive surgical techniques are safe in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric malignancies.
- National Trends and Outcomes of Pediatric Gastrostomy Tube Placement.
- Blood component transfusion increases the risk of death in children with traumatic brain injury.
- Head injury and unclear mechanism of injury: Initial hematocrit less than 30 is predictive of abusive head trauma in young children.
- Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cell Dysfunction and Decreased Population of Highly Proliferative Endothelial Cells in Experimental Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.
- Base deficit correlates with mortality in pediatric abusive head trauma.
- Stearoyl-CoA desaturase plays an important role in proliferation and chemoresistance in human hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Firearm injuries of children and adolescents in 2 Colorado trauma centers: 2000-2008.
- Appendicitis in children less than 5 years old: influence of age on presentation and outcome.
- A 7-year-old with pulmonary hypertension.
- Contemporary pediatric splenectomy: continuing controversies.
- Pediatric thyroidectomy: a collaborative surgical approach.
- Outcomes of laparoscopic versus open fundoplication in children's hospitals: 2005-2008.
- Advances in the surgical management of gastroesophageal reflux.
- Laparoscopic suture rectopexy for full-thickness anorectal prolapse in children: an effective outpatient procedure.
- The inflammatory response to injury in children.
- Operative vs nonoperative management of blunt pancreatic trauma in children.
- Failure of resolution of portal fibrosis during omega-3 fatty acid lipid emulsion therapy in two patients with irreversible intestinal failure.
- Predicting response to splenectomy in children with immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
- Heme oxygenase-1 induction in macrophages by a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier reduces endotoxin-stimulated cytokine secretion.
- Complicated Appendicitis in children: a clear role for drainage and delayed appendectomy.
- Gastrointestinal tract feeding access and the role of fundoplication in combination with gastrostomy.
- Nonaccidental trauma is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients at a regional level 1 pediatric trauma center.
- Prospective evaluation of a primary laparoscopic approach for children presenting with simple or complicated Appendicitis.
- Resection of neurogenic tumors in children: is thoracoscopy superior to thoracotomy?
- Laparoscopic guidance or revision of ventriculoperitoneal shunts in children.
- Early experience with laparoscopic pyloromyotomy in a teaching institution.
- Visceral injuries in nonaccidental trauma: spectrum of injury and outcomes.
- Delayed near-fatal hemorrhage after Nuss bar displacement.
- Laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in children and adolescents.
- Efficacy of left thoracoscopy and blunt mediastinal dissection during the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum.
- Survival in sentinel lymph node-positive pediatric melanoma.
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma and other melanocytic tumors in adolescents.
- Renovascular injury: an argument for renal preservation.
- Endotoxin induces an exaggerated interleukin-10 response in peritoneal macrophages of children compared with adults.
- IL-1beta induces an exaggerated pro- and anti-inflammatory response in peritoneal macrophages of children compared with adults.
- Blunt diaphragmatic rupture in children.
- Diaphragmatic Hernia simulating a left pleural effusion.
- Management of giant omphalocele in a premature low-birth-weight neonate utilizing a bedside sequential clamping technique without prosthesis.
- Is a routine chest x-ray necessary for children after fluoroscopically assisted central venous access?
- On-pump coronary artery bypass surgery activates human myocardial NF-kappaB and increases TNF-alpha in the heart.
- "Resistance" to the inflammatory response and multiple organ failure in children.
- The positive predictive value of rib fractures as an indicator of nonaccidental trauma in children.
- Increased CT scan utilization does not improve the diagnostic accuracy of Appendicitis in children.
- Spectrum of anorectal anomalies in pygopagus twins.
- Alteration of the postinjury hyperinflammatory response by means of resuscitation with a red cell substitute.
- Is hypotension a reliable indicator of blood loss from traumatic injury in children?
- The injured child is resistant to multiple organ failure: a different inflammatory response?
- Altered neutrophil function in the neonate protects against sepsis-induced lung injury.
- Successful thoracoscopic lung biopsy in children utilizing preoperative CT-guided localization.
- Acute hypoxemia in humans enhances the neutrophil inflammatory response.
- A critical analysis of outcome for children sustaining cardiac arrest after blunt trauma.
- Thoracoscopic resection of mediastinal masses in infants and children: an evaluation of technique and results.
- Life-threatening dog attacks: a devastating combination of penetrating and blunt injuries.
- Cytosolic phospholipase A(2)-mediated ICAM-1 expression is calcium dependent.
- Secretory phospholipase A2 activity correlates with postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Evaluation of minimally invasive approaches to achalasia in children.
- Resuscitation with a blood substitute abrogates pathologic postinjury neutrophil cytotoxic function.
- Cervical spine trauma in the injured child: a tragic injury with potential for salvageable functional outcome,.
- Operative management of injured children at an adult level I trauma center.
- Release of anti-inflammatory mediators after major torso trauma correlates with the development of postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Maximal human neutrophil priming for superoxide production and elastase release requires p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation.
- Nonoperative management of solid organ injuries in children results in decreased blood utilization.
- Extracellular signal-related kinase 1/2 and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways serve opposite roles in neutrophil cytotoxicity.
- Cardiopulmonary bypass renders patients at risk for multiple organ failure via early neutrophil priming and late neutrophil disability.
- Kinetics of interleukin-11 release after cardiopulmonary bypass.
- Driveway crush injuries in young children: a highly lethal, devastating, and potentially preventable event.
- Primed neutrophils require phosphatidic acid for maximal receptor-activated elastase release.
- Is routine pathological evaluation of pediatric Hernia sacs justified?
- Ultrasound is an effective triage tool to evaluate blunt abdominal trauma in the pediatric population.
- ICAM-1-CD18 interaction mediates neutrophil cytotoxicity through protease release.
- Secretory phospholipase A2 cleavage of intravasated bone marrow primes human neutrophils.
- Hypertonic saline activates lipid-primed human neutrophils for enhanced elastase release.
- Prostaglandin E1 attenuates cytotoxic mechanisms of primed neutrophils.
- Clinically relevant concentrations of ethanol attenuate primed neutrophil bactericidal activity.
- Adaptive and maladaptive mechanisms of cellular priming.
- Lipid mediators up-regulate CD11b and prime for concordant superoxide and elastase release in human neutrophils.
- Nitric oxide attenuates platelet-activating factor priming for elastase release in human neutrophils via a cyclic guanosine monophosphate-dependent pathway.
- Beta-adrenergic stimulation down-regulates neutrophil priming for superoxide generation, but not elastase release.
- Reduced PAF-acetylhydrolase activity is associated with postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Tracheal gas insufflation is a useful adjunct in permissive hypercapnic management of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Jack A. Barney Resident Research Award winner. The inflammatory profile of interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in postinjury mu...
- Port-site recurrence after thoracoscopic resection of pulmonary metastasis owing to osteogenic sarcoma.
- Neutrophil priming and activation in the pathogenesis of postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 provokes polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase release by CD18.
Schools
University Of Washington School Of Medicine
University Of Colorado
University Of Colorado Children S Hospital Colorado Program
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Colectomy
- Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
- Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
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Conditions Treated
- Appendicitis
- Inguinal Hernia
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Umbilical Hernia
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Colorado -
University of Washington School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Colorado Hospital -
Children's Hospital Colorado
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