
Dr. Katherine J Deans MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 34th & Civic Center Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Katherine Deans practices Pediatric Surgery in Columbus, OH. Dr. Deans 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. Deansdiagnoses, 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
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1998
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Should we continue to target the platelet-activating factor pathway in septic patients?
- Activated protein C in sepsis: emerging insights regarding its mechanism of action and clinical effectiveness.
- Meta-analysis: the effect of steroids on survival and shock during sepsis depends on the dose.
- Recombinant human activated protein C in sepsis: assessing its clinical use.
- Corticosteroids for septic shock.
- Antithrombotic therapies for sepsis: a need for more studies.
- The importance of usual care control groups for safety monitoring and validity during critical care research.
- The effects of steroids during sepsis depend on dose and severity of illness: an updated meta-analysis.
- Corticosteroid therapy for severe sepsis and septic shock.
- Factors associated with mortality in pediatric patients requiring extracorporeal life support for severe pneumonia.
- Feasibility of a nonoperative management strategy for uncomplicated acute appendicitis in children.
- Variability in noncardiac surgical procedures in children with congenital heart disease.
- Single-stage versus multi-stage pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease: practice trends and outcomes in infants.
- Pre-operative prediction of surgical morbidity in children: comparison of five statistical models.
- Early versus delayed surgical correction of malrotation in children with critical congenital heart disease.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Burns
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Pain
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Gas
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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Nearby Providers
- Dr. Emily Partridge MD, PHD3401 Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia PA 19104
- Dr. Nick Scott Adzick MD3401 CIVIC CENTER BLVD PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
- Dr. William Hughes Peranteau M.D.34TH & CIVIC CENTER BLVD PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
- Dr. Michael L Nance M.D.3401 Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia PA 19104
- Dr. Tippi C Mackenzie M.D.34th & Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia PA 19104
- Dr. David Stitelman MD34th & Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia PA 19104
Nearest Hospitals
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700 CHILDREN'S DRIVE COLUMBUS OH 43205GRANT MEDICAL CENTERl
111 SOUTH GRANT AVENUE COLUMBUS OH 43215MOUNT CARMEL WESTl
793 WEST STATE STREET COLUMBUS OH 43222PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTERl
51 NORTH 39TH STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19104HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
230 NORTH BROAD STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19102THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
111 SOUTH 11TH STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19107GRANT MEDICAL CENTERl
111 SOUTH GRANT AVENUE COLUMBUS OH 43215MOUNT CARMEL WESTl
793 WEST STATE STREET COLUMBUS OH 43222NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALl
700 CHILDREN'S DRIVE COLUMBUS OH 43205