Brett H. Waibel, MD, FACS

Associate Professor                                                                                                           
Department of Surgery
University of Nebraska Medical Center
983280 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-3280, USA
Phone: 402-559-6111
Fax: 402-559-6749

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate: 
University of Tennessee, College of Medicine -- Memphis, Tenn.

Residency:
  University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn. 

Fellowship:
  Surgical Critical Care, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Board Certification:
American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care 
American Board of Surgery General Surgery

Academic Appointment:
Associate Professor of Surgery

Sub-Specialty:
Surgical Critical Care
General Surgery

Publications:

• Leonard KL, Borst GM, Davies SW, Coogan M, Waibel BH, Poulin NR, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Rinehart SM, Toschlog EA. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Trauma Patients: Different Criteria, Different Rates. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2016 Jun;17(3):363-8. Abstract
• Bridges LC, Waibel BH, Newell MA. Permissive Hypotension: Potentially Harmful in the Elderly? A National Trauma Data Bank Analysis. Am Surg. 2015 Aug;81(8):770-7. Abstract
• Amin R, Waibel BH. An Unusual Presentation of a Posterior Mediastinal Schwannoma Associated with Traumatic Hemothorax. Case Rep Surg. 2015;2015:175645.  Abstract
• Leonard KL, Davies SW, Waibel BH. Perioperative management of obese patients.  Surg Clin North Am. 2015 Apr;95(2):379-90. Abstract
• Davies SW, Leonard KL, Falls RK Jr, Mageau RP, Efird JT, Hollowell JP, Trainor WE 2nd, Kanaan HA, Hickner RC, Sawyer RG, Poulin NR, Waibel BH, Toschlog EA. Lung protective ventilation (ARDSNet) versus airway pressure release ventilation: ventilatory management in a combined model of acute lung and brain injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Feb;78(2):240-9; discussion 249-51.  Abstract
• Borst GM, Davies SW, Waibel BH, Leonard KL, Rinehart SM, Newell MA, Goettler CE, Bard MR, Poulin NR, Toschlog EA. When birds can't fly: an analysis of interfacility ground transport using advanced life support when helicopter emergency medical service is unavailable. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Aug;77(2):331-6; discussion 336-7.   Abstract
• Schenarts PJ, Goettler CE, White MA, Waibel BH.  An objective study of the impact of the electronic medical record on outcomes in trauma patients.  Am Surg. 2012 Nov;78(11):1249-54.  Abstract
• Waibel BH, Rotondo MM.  Damage control surgery: it's evolution over the last 20 years.  Rev Col Bras Cir. 2012 Jul-Aug;39(4):314-21.  Abstract
• Waibel BH.  Hypothermia in trauma patients: predicting the big chill.  Crit Care. 2012 Sep 21;16(5):155. doi: 10.1186/cc11473.  Abstract
• Schaefer GP, Pender J, Toschlog EA, Waibel BH, Cohen KC.  Endoscopically-assisted tube thoracostomy placement in a super-morbidly obese patient with penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma.  Am Surg. 2011 Jan;77(1):119-20.  Abstract
• Schlitzkus LL, Goettler CE, Waibel BH, Sagraves SG, Hasty CC, Edwards M, Rotondo MF.  Open fractures: it doesn't come out in the wash.  Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2011 Oct;12(5):359-63. doi: 10.1089/sur.2010.075. Epub 2011 Sep 19. Abstract 
• Goettler CE, Schlitzkus LL, Waibel BH, Edwards M, Wilhelmsen B, Rotondo MF. Running out of gas but not trauma patients: the effect of the price of gas on trauma admissions. Am Surg. 2010 Jan;76(1):60-4.  Abstract
• Waibel BH, Durham CA, Newell MA, Schlitzkus LL, Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF. Impact of hypothermia in the rural, pediatric trauma patient. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar;11(2):199-204.  Abstract
• Newell MA, Rotondo MF, Toschlog EA, Waibel BH, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Goettler CE. The elderly trauma patient: an investment for the future? J Trauma. 2009 Aug;67(2):337-40.  Abstract
• Waibel BH, Schlitzkus LL, Newell MA, Durham CA, Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF. Impact of hypothermia (below 36 degrees C) in the rural trauma patient.  J Am Coll Surg. 2009 Nov;209(5):580-8.  Abstract

For full collection of articles: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22waibel+bh%22