Dr. David Newcomb Herndon M.D.
Surgeon
815 Market St Medical Staff Office Galveston TX, 77550Rating
4/5
About
Dr. David Herndon is a general surgeon practicing in Galveston, TX. Dr. Herndon specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Herndon provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1974
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Energy expenditure and caloric balance after burn: increased feeding leads to fat rather than lean mass accretion.
- Genital and perineal burns in children: 10 years of experience at a major burn center.
- Vitamin D depletion following burn injury in children: a possible factor in post-burn osteopenia.
- Modulation of types I and II acute phase reactants with insulin-like growth factor-1/binding protein-3 complex in severely burned children.
- Effect of exercise training on pulmonary function in children with thermal injury.
- Gene expression analysis in burn wounds of rats.
- A novel animal model of sepsis after acute lung injury in sheep.
- Heparin nebulization attenuates acute lung injury in sepsis following smoke inhalation in sheep.
- IGF-I/IGFBP-3 equilibrates ratios of pro- to anti-inflammatory cytokines, which are predictors for organ function in severely burned pediatric patients.
- Beta-blockade and growth hormone after burn.
- Effects of interleukin-1alpha administration on intestinal ischemia and reperfusion injury, mucosal permeability, and bacterial translocation in burn and sepsis.
- Effect of a supervised exercise and physiotherapy program on surgical interventions in children with thermal injury.
- Effects of burn wound excision on bacterial colonization and invasion.
- Recombinant antithrombin attenuates pulmonary inflammation following smoke inhalation and pneumonia in sheep.
- Modulation of inflammatory and catabolic responses in severely burned children by early burn wound excision in the first 24 hours.
Clinical Trials
- Growth Hormone Therapy for Muscle Regeneration in Severely Burned Patients
- Effect of In-Patient Exercise Training on Length of Hospitalization in Burned Patients
- Fenofibrate and Propranolol in Burn Patients
- Propranolol in Severely Burned Children
- Mechanisms of Improved Wound Healing and Protein Synthesis of Insulin and Metformin
- Assessment of the Treatment of Severely Burned With Anabolic Agents on Clinical Outcomes, Recovery and Rehabilitation
- Multicenter Benchmarking of Functional and Psychosocial Outcomes of Pediatric Burn Survivors
Treatments
- Burns
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