Dr. Samir M Fakhry MD
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
3300 Gallows Rd Physician Billing Falls Church VA, 22042About
Dr. Samir Fakhry is a trauma surgeon practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Fakhry specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
Education and Training
Govt. Dental College, Bangalore University, India 1981
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The utility of traditional prehospital interventions in maintaining thermostasis.
- Diagnosis and management of blunt small bowel injury: a survey of the membership of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Relatively short diagnostic delays (<8 hours) produce morbidity and mortality in blunt small bowel injury: an analysis of time to operative intervention in 198 patients from a multicenter experience.
- Acinetobacter calcoaceticus pneumonia and the formation of pneumatoceles.
- Billing, coding, and documentation in the critical care environment.
- What's a trauma surgeon worth? A salary survey of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: the preferred method of elective feeding tube placement in trauma patients.
- Aggressive driving: a preliminary analysis of a serious threat to motorists in a large metropolitan area.
- Outcomes of and resource consumption by high-cost patients in the intensive care unit.
- The resident experience on trauma: declining surgical opportunities and career incentives? Analysis of data from a large multi-institutional study.
- Incidence of hollow viscus injury in blunt trauma: an analysis from 275,557 trauma admissions from the East multi-institutional trial.
- Current diagnostic approaches lack sensitivity in the diagnosis of perforated blunt small bowel injury: analysis from 275,557 trauma admissions from the EAST multi-institutional HVI trial.
- How low is too low? Cardiac risks with anemia.
- A survey of EAST member practices in blunt splenic injury: a description of current trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Blunt ureteropelvic junction disruption.
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Pain
- Hernia
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