Professor, Surgery - Trauma Critical Care, Stanford University Medical Center
General Surgery
Dr. David A. Spain, MD
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David Spain works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Wayne State University School of Medicine is ranked 63/85 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". David Spain has written publications. He has 60 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Trauma center care is associated with reduced readmissions after injury.' Dr. David A. Spain accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Trauma center care is associated with reduced readmissions after injury.
- Advantages and psychometric validation of proximal intensive assessments of patient-reported outcomes collected in daily life.
- Adding insult to injury: discontinuous insurance following spine trauma.
- Care and caring in the intensive care unit: family members' distress and perceptions about staff skills, communication, and emotional support.
- Ground-level Falls Are a Marker of Poor Outcome in the Injured Elderly.
- Environmental Sampling for Clostridium difficile on Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Dispensers in an Academic Medical Center.
- The epidemiology of trauma-related mortality in the United States from 2002 to 2010.
- Variability in California triage from 2005 to 2009: A population-based longitudinal study of severely injured patients.
- Factors Associated With the Disposition of Severely Injured Patients Initially Seen at Non-Trauma Center Emergency Departments: Disparities by Insurance Status.
- Clostridium ramosum Bacteremia: Case Report and Literature Review.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Preoperative Imaging for Appendicitis After Indeterminate Ultrasonography in the Second or Third Trimester of Pregnancy.
- Logistics of transfusion support for patients with massive hemorrhage.
- The forgotten trauma patient: Outcomes for injured patients evaluated by emergency medical services but not transported to the hospital.
- Abdominal wall reconstruction with dual layer cross-linked porcine dermal xenograft: The "Pork Sandwich" herniorraphy.
- Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of trauma exposure: The trauma history screen.
- Characteristics of pediatric trauma transfers to a level?i trauma center: implications for developing a regionalized pediatric trauma system in california.
- Early outcomes of deliberate nonoperative management for blunt thoracic aortic injury in trauma.
- Emergency innovation: implications for the trauma surgeon.
- Massive transfusion protocols: the role of aggressive resuscitation versus product ratio in mortality reduction.
- Demographic and Financial Analysis of EMTALA Hand Patient Transfers.
- Commitment to COT verification improves patient outcomes and financial performance.
- An evaluation of multidetector computed tomography in detecting pancreatic injury: results of a multicenter AAST study.
- Validation of a prehospital trauma triage tool: a 10-year perspective.
- Insulin increases the release of proinflammatory mediators.
- CT angiography effectively evaluates extremity vascular trauma.
- A county hospital surgical practice: a model for acute care surgery.
- Pediatric blunt abdominal injury: age is irrelevant and delayed operation is not detrimental.
- Recruitment strategies for a fall prevention program: if we build it, will they really come?
- Venous air embolism and pressure infusion devices.
- Requests for 692 transfers to an academic level I trauma center: implications of the emergency medical treatment and active labor act.
- Early enteral nutrition after abdominal trauma: effects on septic morbidity and practicality.
- Dramatic shift in the primary management of traumatic thoracic aortic rupture.
- Endovascular management of a gunshot wound to the thoracic aorta.
- Spontaneous splenic rupture: the masquerade of minor trauma.
- Education and training of the future trauma surgeon in acute care surgery: trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery.
- Potential targets to encourage a surgical career.
- Expert witness testimony: the problem and recommendations for oversight and reform.
- Poor validity of residual volumes as a marker for risk of aspiration in critically ill patients.
- Perioperative risk assessment in elderly and high-risk patients.
- Impairment of endothelium-dependent dilation response after resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock involved postreceptor mechanisms.
- The continuing challenge of intra-abdominal infection.
- Society of University Surgeons position statement on the volume-outcome relationship for surgical procedures.
- Intraperitoneal resuscitation improves intestinal blood flow following hemorrhagic shock.
- Immune-enhancing enteral diet increases blood flow and proinflammatory cytokines in the rat ileum.
- Achievement of steady state optimizes results when performing indirect calorimetry.
- Resuscitation regimens for hemorrhagic shock must contain blood.
- When is the seriously ill patient ready to be fed?
- North American Summit on Aspiration in the Critically Ill Patient: consensus statement.
- Risk factors for delirium tremens in trauma patients.
- Reevaluation of diagnostic procedures for transmediastinal gunshot wounds.
- Examination of the role of abdominal computed tomography in the evaluation of victims of trauma with increased aspartate aminotransferase in the era of focused abdomin...
- A novel approach to the problem of intestinal fistulization arising in patients managed with open peritoneal cavities.
- Immune-enhancing enteral diet selectively augments ileal blood flow in the rat.
- Abdominal seat belt marks in the era of focused abdominal sonography for trauma.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia and surgical patients.
- Do facial fractures protect the brain or are they a marker for severe head injury?
- A comparison of alcohol-positive and alcohol-negative trauma patients.
- Femoral vessel injuries.
- Handsewn versus stapled anastomosis in penetrating colon injuries requiring resection: a multicenter study.
Schools
University of Maryland At Baltimore Professional Schools
Wayne State University
UMDNJ Rw Johnson Med School
University Of Louisville
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Wayne State University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Stanford Health Care -
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1427190412 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SPAIN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DAVID | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 943052200 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 79.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 37.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 46.84 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1427190412 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SPAIN |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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