Dr. David William Bliss MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
501 N Graham St Suite 300 Portland OR, 97227About
Dr. David Bliss practices Pediatric Surgery in Portland, OR. Dr. Bliss 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. Blissdiagnoses, 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
Univ of Ca, San Diego, Sch of Med, La Jolla Ca 1990
University of California 1990
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Analysis of 29 consecutive thoracoscopic repairs of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in neonates compared to historical controls.
- Infant head injury in falls and nonaccidental trauma: does injury pattern correlate with mechanism?
- Should All Severely Injured Pediatric Patients be Treated at Pediatric Level I Trauma Centers? A National Trauma Data Bank Study.
- A gastrointestinal stromal tumor found in perforated Meckel's diverticulum.
- Operative outcomes of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in patients with congenital heart disease.
- Trauma experts versus pediatric experts: comparison of outcomes in pediatric penetrating injuries.
- Comparison of outcomes in severe pediatric trauma at adult trauma centers with different trauma case volumes.
- Association between pediatric blunt splenic injury volume and the splenectomy rate.
- The role of simultaneous abdominal surgery and wound classification in ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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