Dr. Orlando C. Kirton, MD
Surgeon | Surgical Critical Care
80 Seymour Street Hartford Hospital Su Hartford CT, 06102About
Dr. Orlando Kirton is a general surgeon practicing in Hartford, CT. Dr. Kirton 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. Kirton 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Measuring service-specific performance and educational value within a general surgery residency: the power of a prospective, anonymous, Web-based rotation evaluation system in the optimization of resident satisfaction.
- What is taught, what is tested: findings and competency-based recommendations of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
- The use of an absorbable mesh wrap in the management of major liver injuries.
- Strategies to prevent organ failure.
- Ligation of the subclavian artery after blunt trauma presenting as massive hemothorax.
- Attending surgeon work hour restrictions.
- Warfarin resistance after total gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy.
- Preservation of the most severely injured spleen: is there anything new?: comment on "Management of the most severely injured spleen".
- Acute care surgery survey: opinions of surgeons about a new training paradigm.
- Mannequin simulation identifies common surgical intensive care unit teamwork errors long after introduction of sepsis guidelines.
- Optimizing advanced practitioner charge capture in high-acuity surgical intensive care units.
- Development and implementation of an interactive, objective, and simulation-based curriculum for general surgery residents.
- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour regulations: how do we make the best of an unpopular situation in training the surgeons of tomorrow?
- Implementation of an intern boot camp curriculum to address clinical competencies under the new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education supervision requirements and duty hour restrictions.
- Increasing use of less-invasive hemodynamic monitoring in 3 specialty surgical intensive care units: a 5-year experience at a tertiary medical center.
Professional Memberships
- Member ATTENDING PHYSICIAN-CRITICAL CARE SVCS/HARTFORD HOSPITAL
- Member MED DIR-TRAUMA INTENSIVE CARE UNIT/JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSP
- Chief CHIEF-RED SERVICE & RED SERVICE CLINIC/HARTFORD HOSPITAL
- Member ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR-DEPT OF SURGERY/HARTFORD HOSPITAL
- Chief CHIEF-DIVISION OF GENERAL SURGER/HARTFORD HOSPITAL
- Member NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member SOUTHERN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
- Member AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC SURGEONS
- STAFF PRV HARTFORD HOSPITAL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
Fellowships
- PATHOLOGY, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, BOSTON, MA 1985
- Children's Hospital of Boston / Harvard Medical School NIH, National Research Service Award 1985
- University of Miami School of Medicine Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care 1990
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