Associate Professor of Surgery Director of Outcomes Research Indiana University
General Surgery
Dr. Ben L. Zarzaur, MD
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Dr. Ben L. Zarzaur is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to University of Alabama School of Medicine. University of Alabama School of Medicine has a rank of 37 in research and a 17 in primary care He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACS)". Zarzaur is a published doctor and has 77 publications published. The lastest was: 'Traumatic abdominal wall hernias: Location matters.' Dr. Ben L. Zarzaur accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Traumatic abdominal wall hernias: Location matters.
- Shock Volume: A Patient-Specific Index that Predicts Transfusion Requirements and Organ Dysfunction in Multiply Injured Patients.
- Predictors of functional limitation trajectories after injury in a nationally representative U.S. older adult population.
- The effect of pH versus base deficit on organ failure in trauma patients.
- Factors associated with pulmonary embolism within 72 hours of admission after trauma: a multicenter study.
- Emergency general surgery outcomes at safety net hospitals.
- The impact of preexisting comorbidities on failure to rescue outcomes in nonelderly trauma patients.
- The new metric to define large-volume hemorrhage: Results of a prospective study of the critical administration threshold.
- "Smoker's Paradox" in Patients Treated for Severe Injuries: Lower Risk of Mortality After Trauma Observed in Current Smokers.
- Routine drainage of the operative bed following elective distal pancreatectomy does not reduce the occurrence of complications.
- Early tracheostomy in trauma patients saves time and money.
- Mature Driver Laws and State Predictors of Motor Vehicle Crash Fatality Rates Among the Elderly: A Cross-sectional Ecological Study.
- Time matters in 1: 1 resuscitations: Concurrent administration of blood: plasma and risk of death.
- Trauma center angiography use in high-grade blunt splenic injuries: Timing is everything.
- Using critical administration thresholds to predict abbreviated laparotomy.
- Blunt abdominal aortic injury: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study.
- Gender disparity in ventilator-associated pneumonia following trauma: Identifying risk factors for mortality.
- Blunt cerebrovascular injury screening with 64-channel multidetector computed tomography: More slices finally cut it.
- Diagnostic laparoscopy after anterior abdominal stab wounds: Worth another look?
- Insurance status is a predictor of failure to rescue in trauma patients at both safety net and non-safety net hospitals.
- General surgeon workforce in Tennessee in the era of the Affordable Care Act.
- Geographic variation in susceptibility to ventilator-associated pneumonia after traumatic injury.
- The impact of pre-existing comorbidities on failure to rescue outcomes in trauma patients.
- Functional outcomes following blunt cerebrovascular injury.
- Redefining massive transfusion when every second counts.
- Outcomes of Operations Performed by Attending Surgeons after Overnight Trauma Shifts.
- Impact of location on outcome after penetrating colon injuries.
- Routine peritoneal drainage of the surgical bed after elective distal pancreatectomy: is it necessary?
- Toward defining grade C pancreatic fistula following pancreaticoduodenectomy: incidence, risk factors, management and outcome.
- Use of the clinical pulmonary infection score to guide therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia risks antibiotic overexposure in patients with trauma.
- Variation in the Use of Urgent Splenectomy After Blunt Splenic Injury in Adults.
- Minor trauma is an unrecognized contributor to poor fetal outcomes: a population-based study of 78,552 pregnancies.
- Large animal-related injury requiring hospital admission: Injury pattern disparities.
- A survey of american association for the surgery of trauma member practices in the management of blunt splenic injury.
- Improving the screening criteria for blunt cerebrovascular injury: the appropriate role for computed tomography angiography.
- The microbiology of secondary and postoperative pancreatic infections: implications for antimicrobial management.
- Causative pathogen dictates optimal duration of antimicrobial therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma patients.
- Optimal Outcomes for Patients with Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury (BCVI): Tailoring Treatment to the Lesion.
- Blunt cerebrovascular injury screening with 32-channel multidetector computed tomography: more slices still don't cut it.
- Quality of life after abdominal wall reconstruction following open abdomen.
- Admission ionized calcium levels predict the need for multiple transfusions: a prospective study of 591 critically ill trauma patients.
- Improved survival after hemostatic resuscitation: does the emperor have no clothes?
- Beta-adrenergic blockade and traumatic brain injury: protective?
- A population-based analysis of neighborhood socioeconomic status and injury admission rates and in-hospital mortality.
- Long-term survival and return on investment after nonneurologic injury: implications for the elderly trauma patient.
- Insurance type is a determinant of 2-year mortality after non-neurologic trauma.
- Identifying life-threatening shock in the older injured patient: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Long-term follow-up of abdominal wall reconstruction after planned ventral hernia: a 15-year experience.
- Injury location dictates utility of digital rectal examination and rigid sigmoidoscopy in the evaluation of penetrating rectal trauma.
- Impact of motorcycle helmets and state laws on society's burden: a national study.
- Impact of decompressive craniectomy on functional outcome after severe traumatic brain injury.
- The real risk of splenectomy after discharge home following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury.
- Necessity of repeat head CT and ICU monitoring in patients with minimal brain injury.
- Efficacy of monotherapy in the treatment of Pseudomonas ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with trauma.
- Temporary abdominal closure techniques: a prospective randomized trial comparing polyglactin 910 mesh and vacuum-assisted closure.
- Intra-abdominal sepsis following pancreatic resection: incidence, risk factors, diagnosis, microbiology, management, and outcome.
- New vitals after injury: shock index for the young and age x shock index for the old.
- Reduction in inadequate empiric antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact of a unit-specific treatment pathway.
- Impact of gender on outcomes after blunt injury: a definitive analysis of more than 36,000 trauma patients.
- Impact of airbags on a Level I trauma center: injury patterns, infectious morbidity, and hospital costs.
- The evolution of blunt splenic injury: resolution and progression.
- Intestinal ischemia-reperfusion injury alters purinergic receptor expression in clinically relevant extraintestinal organs.
- Motor vehicle crashes obesity and seat belt use: a deadly combination?
- Initial chest CT obviates the need for repeat chest radiograph after penetrating thoracic trauma.
- Routine follow-up imaging is unnecessary in the management of blunt hepatic injury.
- Superselective catheterization and embolization as first-line therapy for lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Blood transfusion is an independent predictor of increased mortality in nonoperatively managed blunt hepatic and splenic injuries.
- Mechanical ventilation alters airway nucleotides and purinoceptors in lung and extrapulmonary organs.
- Infrared thermography: a rapid, portable, and accurate technique to detect experimental pneumothorax.
- Enteral feeding preserves mucosal immunity despite in vivo MAdCAM-1 blockade of lymphocyte homing.
- Route of nutrition influences generation of antibody-forming cells and initial defense to an active viral infection in the upper respiratory tract.
- Glutamine improves impaired cellular exudation and polymorphonuclear neutrophil phagocytosis induced by total parenteral nutrition after glycogen-induced murine perito...
- Mucosal immunity preservation with bombesin or glutamine is not dependent on mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1 expression.
- Increased ICAM-1 and beta2 integrin expression in parenterally fed mice after a gut ischemic insult.
- Total parenteral nutrition supplementation with glutamine improves survival after gut ischemia/reperfusion.
- The neuropeptide bombesin improves IgA-mediated mucosal immunity with preservation of gut interleukin-4 in total parenteral nutrition-fed mice.
Schools
University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
University Of Nc Hosps
University Of Tn College Of Med
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of North Carolina Hospitals -
University of Tennessee -
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1396795704 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | ZARZAUR | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | BEN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 462021212 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IN | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 19.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1396795704 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ZARZAUR |
| First Name Of The Provider | BEN |
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