Dr. David M. Pressel MD
Hospitalist
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803About
Dr. David Pressel is a hospitalist practicing in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Pressel specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Pressel manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Pressel 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
Washington Center / School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evaluation of physical abuse in children.
- Stimulus-secretion coupling in beta-cells of transplantable human islets of Langerhans. Evidence for a critical role for Ca2+ entry.
- Electrophysiology of stimulus-secretion coupling in human beta-cells.
- Nuremberg and Tuskegee: lessons for contemporary American medicine.
- Hospitalists in medical education: coming to an academic medical center near you.
- Role of voltage-dependent ionic currents in coupling glucose stimulation to insulin secretion in canine pancreatic islet B-cells.
- Pediatric hospitalist comanagement of surgical patients: challenges and opportunities.
- Electrical activity and exocytotic correlates of biphasic insulin secretion from beta-cells of canine islets of Langerhans: contribution of tuning two modes of Ca2+ entry-dependent exocytosis to two modes of glucose-induced electrical activity.
- Sodium channels contribute to action potential generation in canine and human pancreatic islet B cells.
- Pediatric hospitalist preoperative evaluation of children with neuromuscular scoliosis.
- Outcomes and costs associated with hospitalist comanagement of medically complex children undergoing spinal fusion surgery.
- 'Perforated patch recording' allows long-term monitoring of metabolite-induced electrical activity and voltage-dependent Ca2+ currents in pancreatic islet B cells.
- Theory and practice of free food in hospitals: a guide for the hungry hospitalist.
- Culture Pus, Not Blood: Decreasing Routine Laboratory Testing in Patients With Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
- cAMP-enhancing agents "permit" stimulus-secretion coupling in canine pancreatic islet beta-cells.
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Practice At A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road
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