Kirk W. Reichard, MD

OR Surgical Director

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Surgery - St. Christophers Hospital for Children, 1997

Internship Residency

  • General Surgery - University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chic, 1995

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery

  • Obesity

  • Dixit, D., Choudhry, D. K., & Reichard, K. (2021). Continuous Local Anesthetic Infusion via Chest Wall Catheter for Analgesia After Thoracic Surgery in Neonates: A Case Series. A&A practice, 15(10), e01540. doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001540

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  • McTigue, K. M., Wellman, R., Nauman, E., Anau, J., Coley, R. Y., Odor, A., & Cook, A. J. (2020). Comparing the 5-year diabetes outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass the national patient-centered clinical research network (PCORNet) bariatric study. JAMA Surgery, 155(5). doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.0087

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  • Devin, C. L., Linden, A. F., Sagalow, E., Reichard, K. W., Vinocur, C. D., Miller, J. M., & Berman, L. (2020). Standardized pathway for feeding tube placement reduces unnecessary surgery and improves value of care. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 55(6), 1013-1022. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.02.033

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  • Phillips, M. R., English, S. L., Reichard, K., Vinocur, C., & Berman, L. (2020). The safety and efficacy of using negative pressure incisional wound VACs in pediatric and neonatal patients. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 55(8), 1470-1474. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2019.10.011

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  • Devin, C. L., D'Cruz, R., Linden, A. F., English, S., Vinocur, C. D., Reichard, K. W., & Berman, L. (2020). Reducing resource utilization for patients with uncomplicated appendicitis through use of same-day discharge and elimination of postoperative antibiotics. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 55(12), 2591-2595. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.04.003

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  • Armstrong, S. C., Bolling, C. F., Michalsky, M. P., & Reichard, K. W. (2019). Pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery: Evidence, barriers, and best practices. Pediatrics, 144(6). doi:10.1542/peds.2019-3223

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  • Bolling, C. F., Armstrong, S. C., Reichard, K. W., & Michalsky, M. P. (2019). Metabolic and bariatric surgery for pediatric patients with severe obesity. Pediatrics, 144(6). doi:10.1542/peds.2019-3224

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  • Pratt, J. S. A., Browne, A., Browne, N. T., Bruzoni, M., Cohen, M., Desai, A., & Zitsman, J. (2018). ASMBS pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery guidelines, 2018. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 14(7), 882-901. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2018.03.019

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  • Cohen, M. J., Curran, J. L., Phan, T.-L. T., Reichard, K., & Datto, G. A. (2017). Psychological contributors to noncompletion of an adolescent preoperative bariatric surgery program. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 13(1), 58-64. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2016.08.020

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  • Choudhry, D. K., Brenn, B. R., Sacks, K., Reichard, K., & Lonnqvist, P.-A. (2016). Continuous chest wall ropivacaine infusion for analgesia in children undergoing Nuss procedure: A comparison with thoracic epidural. Paediatric Anaesthesia, 26(6), 582-589. doi:10.1111/pan.12904

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  • Reichard, K. W. (2016). Ovarian tumors. In Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery, Second Edition (bll 811-817). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27443-0_102

  • Theroux, M. C., Olivant Fisher, A., Rodriguez, M., Brislin, R. P., Reichard, K. W., Shah, S. A., & Brown, M. (2015). Response to comments by Yibo et al. regarding our manuscript: Prophylactic methylprednisolone to reduce inflammation and improve outcomes from one lung ventilation in children: A randomized clinical trial. Paediatric Anaesthesia, 25(10), 1066-1067. doi:10.1111/pan.12725

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  • Theroux, M. C., Fisher, A. O., Rodriguez, M. E., Brislin, R. P., Reichard, K. W., Shah, S. A., & Shaffer, T. H. (2015). Prophylactic methylprednisolone to reduce inflammation and improve outcomes from one lung ventilation in children: A randomized clinical trial. Paediatric Anaesthesia, 25(6), 587-594. doi:10.1111/pan.12601

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