John Francis Burke Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
General Surgery
Dr. George Velmahos, MD
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Doctor George Velmahos, MD works in the field of General Surgery. He received 3 awards: "Fellow (FCCM)", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Dr. George Velmahos is also published. He has 62 publications published. The lastest publication: "A light-activated amnion wrap strengthens colonic anastomosis and reduces peri-anastomotic adhesions.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- The clinical significance of isolated loss of lordosis on cervical spine computed tomography in blunt trauma patients: a prospective evaluation of 1,007 patients.
- The financial impact of intraoperative adverse events in Abdominal surgery.
- Additional Imaging in Alert Trauma Patients with Cervical Spine Tenderness and a Negative Computed Tomographic Scan: Is it Needed?
- Abscess due to perforated appendicitis: factors associated with successful percutaneous drainage.
- The Effect of Aging on Pulmonary Function: Implications for Monitoring and Support of the Surgical and Trauma Patient.
- Variations in the implementation of acute care surgery: Results from a national survey of university-affiliated hospitals.
- Intraoperative adverse events: The neglected quality indicator of surgical care?
- The initial response to the Boston marathon bombing: lessons learned to prepare for the next disaster.
- Morbidity related to concomitant adhesions in Abdominal surgery.
- Patterns of injury, outcomes, and predictors of in-hospital and 1-year mortality in nonagenarian and centenarian trauma patients.
- Single-Stage Cholecystectomy at the Time of Pancreatic Necrosectomy Is Safe and Prevents Future Biliary Complications: a 20-Year Single Institutional Experience with 2...
- Delayed Laparotomy After Selective Non-operative Management of Penetrating Abdominal Injuries.
- Potentially avoidable blood transfusion during trauma resuscitation.
- Histone deacetylase inhibitor treatment attenuates coagulation imbalance in a lethal murine model of sepsis.
- The influence of anesthesia on heart rate complexity during elective and urgent surgery in 128 patients.
- Time to first take-back operation predicts successful primary fascial closure in patients undergoing damage control laparotomy.
- Self-expanding foam improves survival following a lethal, exsanguinating iliac artery injury.
- Selective histone deacetylase-6 inhibition attenuates stress responses and prevents immune organ atrophy in a lethal septic model.
- Opening Pandora's box: understanding the nature, patterns, and 30-day outcomes of intraoperative adverse events.
- Causes and Consequences of Interrupted Enteral Nutrition: A Prospective Observational Study in Critically Ill Surgical Patients.
- Fresh frozen plasma resuscitation attenuates platelet dysfunction compared with normal saline in a large animal model of multisystem trauma.
- Damage Control Resuscitation In Trauma.
- Self-expanding foam for prehospital treatment of severe intra-Abdominal hemorrhage: Dose finding study.
- Acute care surgery: from de novo to de facto.
- Derivation and Validation of a Novel Severity Classification for Intraoperative Adverse Events.
- Fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis: Prospective development of a risk scoring system.
- Assessment of coagulopathy, endothelial injury, and inflammation after traumatic brain injury and hemorrhage in a porcine model.
- Free air on plain film: Do we need a computed tomography too?
- Development of a lethal, closed-abdomen, Arterial hemorrhage model in noncoagulopathic swine.
- Early treatment with lyophilized plasma protects the brain in a large animal model of combined traumatic brain injury and hemorrhagic shock.
- Real-time sample entropy predicts life-saving interventions after the Boston Marathon bombing.
- Real-time heart rate entropy predicts the need for lifesaving interventions in trauma activation patients.
- Trauma Whipple: Do or Don't After Severe Pancreaticoduodenal Injuries? An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).
- Sternal fracture-an Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Multi-institutional Comparison of Helicopter Transfers Directly to the Operating Room versus the Pit Stop in the Emergency Department.
- Successful Nonoperative Management of the Most Severe Blunt Renal Injuries: A Multicenter Study of the Research Consortium of New EnGland Centers for Trauma.
- Outcomes following "rescue" superselective angioembolization for gastroIntestinal hemorrhage in hemodynamically unstable patients.
- Excessively Long Hospital Stays After Trauma Are Not Related to the Severity of Illness: Let's Aim to the Right Target!
- Novel pharmacologic treatment attenuates septic shock and improves long-term survival.
- Vertebral artery injury associated with blunt cervical spine trauma: a multivariate regression Analysis.
- Self-expanding polyurethane polymer improves survival in a model of noncompressible massive Abdominal hemorrhage.
- Aggressive early crystalloid resuscitation adversely affects outcomes in adult blunt trauma patients: An Analysis of the Glue Grant database.
- Incidental Findings in Trauma Patients: Dedicated Communication with the Primary Care Physician Ensures Adequate Follow-Up.
- Synergistic effects of hypertonic saline and valproic acid in a lethal rat two-hit model.
- Optimal pressure of Abdominal gas insufflation for bleeding control in a severe swine splenic injury model.
- Implementation of 24/7 intensivist presence in the SICU: Effect on processes of care.
- Direct and recurrent inguinal Hernias are associated with ventral Hernia repair: a database study.
- A survey of study habits of general surgery residents.
- Interhospital transfers of acute care surgery patients: should care for nontraumatic surgical emergencies be Regionalized? Reply.
- Using micropower impulse radar technology to screen for Pneumothorax: An international bi-institutional study.
- "Blush" on trauma computed tomography: not as bad as we think!
- Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt liver injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of new EnGland centers for trauma.
- Intraparenchymal Versus Extracranial Ventricular Drain Intracranial Pressure Monitors in Traumatic Brain Injury: Less Is More?
- Pain as an indication for rib fixation: a bi-institutional pilot study.
- Self-expanding hemostatic polymer for control of exsanguinating extremity bleeding.
- Early magnetic resonance imaging is unnecessary in patients with traumatic brain injury.
- Development and testing of freeze-dried plasma for the treatment of trauma-associated coagulopathy.
- Goal-directed diuresis: A case - control study of continuous furosemide infusion in critically ill trauma patients.
- A light-activated amnion wrap strengthens colonic anastomosis and reduces peri-anastomotic adhesions.
- Perioperative risk factors impact outcomes in emergency versus non-emergency surgery differently - Time to separate our national risk-adjustment models?
- Nutrition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: The Cost of Starting Low and Ramping Up Rates.
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anal Fissure
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Network Health
- Tufts Health Plans
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Fellow (FCCM)
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1912966094 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VELMAHOS |
| First Name Of The Provider | GEORGE |
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