Dr. Edward G. Ford MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1965 S Fremont Ave Suite 100 Springfield MO, 65804Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Edward Ford practices Pediatric Surgery in Springfield, MO. Dr. Ford 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. Forddiagnoses, 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
U of Tx Med Sch At Houston, Houston Tx 1982
University Of Texas Medical School at Houston 1982
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Augmented venous access in the problematic ECMO patient: a case report.
- The impact of extracorporeal membrane support in the treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Fecal fat, cyclosporine, and alpha 1-antitrypsin for assessment of small bowel function following transplantation.
- Stimulation of wound bursting strength during protein malnutrition.
- Value of the O-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside test to differentiate among the aerobic actinomycetes.
- Partial splenic embolization. An effective alternative to splenectomy for hypersplenism.
- The effect of perioperative exogenous growth hormone on wound bursting strength in normal and malnourished rats.
- Vascular access in the neonate following extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare infections in patients with and without AIDS.
- Quality control of individual components used in Middlebrook 7H10 medium for
- [Tube feeding at home].
- Tube feeding at home.
- The elderly at risk: a critical examination of commonly identified risk groups.
- Growth hormone effects on wound healing in malnourished animals: a histological study.
- Pulmonary edema following post-operative laryngospasm: a case report and review of the literature.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Ventral Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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