Eastern Virginia Medical School, Dept of Surgery
General Surgery
Dr. Leonard J. Weireter Jr., MD
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Leonard J. Weireter Jr., MD works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He over the years received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Top MD". Leonard Weireter is also a published physician. He has 53 paper published. The most recent paper is: Specificity of elevated CA 19-9 levels in chronic pancreatitis. He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- The trauma pan scan: what else do you find?
- Do postoperative antibiotics prevent abscess formation in complicated appendicitis?
- Transitioning to Thoracic Endovascular Repair: A Single Institution's Analysis of the Management of Blunt Aortic Injury.
- Pulmonary hypertension is not an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the trauma population.
- Screening human immunodeficiency virus-positive men for anal intraepithelial neoplasia.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia: depends on your definition.
- MRI as an adjunct to cervical spine clearance: a utility analysis.
- Mass Casualty Triage: An Evaluation of the Science and Refinement of a National Guideline.
- Cervical spinal cord injury associated with near-drowning does not increase pneumonia risk or mortality.
- Experience in Haiti allows college to better prepare for future crises.
- The incidence of benign and malignant neoplasia presenting as acute appendicitis.
- Impact of acute care surgery on biliary disease.
- Initial implementation of an acute care surgery model: implications for timeliness of care.
- Impact of a monitored program of care on incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia: results of a longterm performance-improvement project.
- Insulin requirements in the intensive care unit in response to infection.
- A novel technique for vacuum assisted closure on injured tissue or in confined spaces.
- Early glucose normalization does not improve outcome in the critically ill trauma population.
- Lung protective ventilation strategies: have we applied them in trauma patients at risk for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome?
- Corticosteroid use in the intensive care unit: at what cost?
- Duodenal ulceration into the cystic artery with resultant massive hemorrhage.
- Nonoperative trauma management: has the pendulum swung too far? The distinguished Dr. William Matory lecture.
- Protocol-driven ventilator management in a trauma intensive care unit population.
- Blunt trauma and the role of routine pelvic radiographs: a prospective analysis.
- 10 questions and answers about disasters and disaster response.
- HAZUS modeling for hurricane effect on a healthcare campus: implications for health care planning.
- Aggressive surveillance and early catheter-directed therapy in the management of intra-abdominal hypertension.
- Adrenal insufficiency in hemorrhagic shock.
- Adrenal insufficiency in the critically III trauma population.
- Human polymerized hemoglobin for the treatment of hemorrhagic shock when blood is unavailable: the USA multicenter trial.
- The cuff leak test is not predictive of successful extubation.
- Late fatal hemorrhage in pediatric liver trauma.
- A simulation-based training system for surgical wound debridement.
- Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome: risk factors and outcomes.
- Duplex directed caval filter insertion in multi-trauma and critically ill patients.
- Specificity of elevated CA 19-9 levels in chronic pancreatitis.
- Blunt injury of the abdominal aorta: a review.
- Priorities in the management of profound shock.
- Expanded use of inferior vena cava filters in the trauma population.
- Controversies in nutritional support of the surgical patient.
- Mechanical debridement. Views from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia.
- Blunt trauma and the role of routine pelvic radiographs.
- The usefulness of serum troponin levels in evaluating cardiac injury.
- Obesity and increased mortality in blunt trauma.
- Dynamic computed tomography as an ancillary screening test for traumatic thoracic aortic injuries: a critical review.
- Newer diagnostic modalities for vascular injuries: the way we were, the way we are.
- Contribution of age and gender to outcome of blunt splenic injury in adults: multicenter study of the eastern association for the surgery of trauma.
- The rapid infusion system: a superior method for the resuscitation of hypovolemic trauma patients.
- Penetrating esophageal injuries: multicenter study of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Blunt splenic injury in adults: Multi-institutional Study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Oxygen debt and metabolic acidemia as quantitative predictors of mortality and the severity of the ischemic insult in hemorrhagic shock.
- Assessing surgical skill training under hazardous conditions in a virtual environment.
- Guidelines for emergency tracheal intubation immediately after traumatic injury.
Schools
State University of New York At Buffalo
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Pathway X Tier Hosp HealthKeepers DirectAccess VA
- HealthKeepers HMO
- KeyCare PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Southern Health PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- National Elevator
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Universal American
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Top MD
Education
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University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
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