Dr. Joseph John Tepas M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
653 W 8th St Ufjp Pediatric Surge Jacksonville FL, 32209About
Dr. Joseph Tepas practices Pediatric Surgery in Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Tepas treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Tepasdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Georgetown Univ Sch of Med, Washington Dc 1971
Georgetown University School of Medicine 1971
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The efficacy of focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) as a screening tool in the assessment of injured children.
- Evaluation and management of the injured child. American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
- Infectious complications in critically injured children.
- Nosocomial pneumonia in the pediatric trauma patient: a single center's experience.
- Pediatric cervical spine injuries: defining the disease.
- Beyond the golden hour: avoiding the pitfalls from resuscitation to critical care.
- Practical aspects of performance improvement in pediatric trauma.
- Chicken bone perforation of the sigmoid colon: a report of three cases.
- Pediatric trauma is a surgical disease.
- Radiographic clearance of blunt cervical spine injury: plain radiograph or computed tomography scan?
- Surgical management of bowel perforations and outcome in very low-birth-weight infants (< or =1,200 g).
- Impaired residents: identification and intervention.
- Evaluation of initial base deficit as a prognosticator of outcome in the pediatric trauma population.
- The national pediatric trauma registry: a legacy of commitment to control of childhood injury.
- The effect of early spine fixation on non-neurologic outcome.
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