Dr. David B Macdonald MD
Hospitalist
41 Mall Rd Lahey Clinic Burlington MA, 01803About
Dr. David Macdonald is a hospitalist practicing in Burlington, MA. Dr. Macdonald specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Macdonald manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Macdonald works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of patients.
Education and Training
Ross University School of Medicine 2007
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intraoperative electrocorticography in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery.
- Individually optimizing posterior tibial somatosensory evoked potential P37 scalp derivations for intraoperative monitoring.
- An approach to intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring of thoracoabdominal aneurysm surgery.
- Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring during descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm surgery.
- Safety of intraoperative transcranial electrical stimulation motor evoked potential monitoring.
- Monitoring scoliosis surgery with combined multiple pulse transcranial electric motor and cortical somatosensory-evoked potentials from the lower and upper extremities.
- A comparison between derivation optimization and Cz'-FPz for posterior tibial P37 somatosensory evoked potential intraoperative monitoring.
- Intraoperative facial motor evoked potential monitoring with transcranial electrical stimulation during skull base surgery.
- Re: Comparison of monitoring techniques for intraoperative cerebral ischemia. DW Rowed, DA Houlden, LM Burkholder, AB Taylor. Can J Neurol Sci 2004;31(3):347-356.
- Tibial somatosensory evoked potential intraoperative monitoring: recommendations based on signal to noise ratio analysis of popliteal fossa, optimized P37, standard P37, and P31 potentials.
- Intraoperative motor evoked potential monitoring: overview and update.
- Preferred bonding motif for indium aminoethanethiolate complexes: structural characterization of (Me2NCH2CH2S)2InX/SR (X = Cl, I; R = 4-MeC6H4, 4-MeOC6H4).
- Intraoperative facial motor evoked potentials?
- Four-limb muscle motor evoked potential and optimized somatosensory evoked potential monitoring with decussation assessment: results in 206 thoracolumbar spine surgeries.
- Leiomyomas beyond the uterus: unusual locations, rare manifestations.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd)
- Pain
- Cellulitis
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