Dr. Thomas M Scalea M.D.
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
22 S Greene St Baltimore MD, 21201Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Thomas Scalea is a trauma surgeon practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Scalea specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
Education and Training
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 1978
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Trauma resuscitation/critical care fellowship for emergency physicians: a necessary step for the future of academic emergency medicine.
- Extracorporeal lung support in a patient with traumatic brain injury: the benefit of heparin-bonded circuitry.
- Resuscitation in the new millennium.
- Effects of traditional versus delayed resuscitation on serum lactate and base deficit.
- Dislodgment of inferior vena cava filters during central line placement: case report.
- The hemodynamic effects of cocaine during acute controlled hemorrhage in conscious rats.
- External fixation as a bridge to intramedullary nailing for patients with multiple injuries and with femur fractures: damage control orthopedics.
- Hyperlactatemia, increased osmolar gap, and renal dysfunction during continuous lorazepam infusion.
- Nonsurgical management of blunt splenic injury: use of CT criteria to select patients for splenic arteriography and potential endovascular therapy.
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome score at admission independently predicts mortality and length of stay in trauma patients.
- Percutaneous tracheostomy in patients without cervical spine clearance.
- Gender differences in adverse outcomes after blunt trauma.
- Ligamentous injuries of the cervical spine in unreliable blunt trauma patients: incidence, evaluation, and outcome.
- Role of ultrasonography in penetrating abdominal trauma: a prospective clinical study.
- Impact of nosocomial infections in trauma: does age make a difference?
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Concussion
- Cellulitis
- Femur Fracture
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