Dr. Walter L. Biffl MD
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
2 Dudley St Suite 470 Providence RI, 02905About
Dr. Walter Biffl is a trauma surgeon practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Biffl 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Postinjury suppression of human neutrophil cytokine production results from the
- Blunt cerebrovascular injuries.
- Patients with blunt carotid and vertebral artery injuries.
- Male gender is a risk factor for major infections after surgery.
- Identifying the asymptomatic patient with blunt carotid arterial injury.
- Stored red blood cells selectively activate human neutrophils to release IL-8 and secretory PLA2.
- Hypertonic saline resuscitation abrogates neutrophil priming by mesenteric lymph.
- The image of trauma: left thoracoabdominal incision with medial visceral rotation.
- Release of anti-inflammatory mediators after major torso trauma correlates with the development of postinjury multiple organ failure.
- Hypertonic saline attenuation of polymorphonuclear neutrophil cytotoxicity: timing is everything.
- NISS predicts postinjury multiple organ failure better than the ISS.
- Postinjury torso ultrasound: FAST should be SLOH.
- Hypertonic saline inhibits neutrophil (PMN) priming via attenuation of p38 MAPK signaling.
- Pancreaticojejunal stent migration resulting in "bezoar ileus".
- Hypertonic saline alteration of the PMN cytoskeleton: implications for signal transduction and the cytotoxic response.
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