Submissions from 2017
A View from the Edge - Creating a Culture of Caring, Rana Awdish
A Communications Bundle to Improve Satisfaction for Critically Ill Patients and Their Families: A Prospective, Cohort Pilot Study, Rana Awdish, Dana Buick, Maria Kokas, Hanan Berlin, Catherine Jackman, Cari Williamson, Michael P. Mendez, and Kristen Chasteen
Low Rate of Adverse Events Associated With Inpatient Parenteral Prostacyclins, Rana Awdish, Michael P. Mendez, Nancy C. MacDonald, Lenar Yessayan, Jeffrey H. Jennings, Kamelia Albujoq, Sara Hegab, and Hector R. Cajigas
When Patients and Their Families Feel Like Hostages to Health Care, Leonard L. Berry, Tracey S. Danaher, Dan Beckham, Rana Awdish, and Kedar S. Mate
Posterior Tracheal Laceration Treated with a Stent, Said Chaaban, Michael Simoff, Cynthia Ray, and Javier Diaz-Mendoza
An Official American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults Rehabilitation Protocols, Ventilator Liberation Protocols, and Cuff Leak Tests, Timothy D. Girard, Waleed Alhazzani, John P. Kress, Daniel R. Ouellette, Gregory A. Schmidt, Jonathon D. Truwit, Suzanne M. Burns, Scott K. Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L. Fraser, Michelle N. Gong, Catherine L. Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Sheena Patel, Amy J. Pawlik, William D. Schweickert, Curtis N. Sessler, Thomas Strøm, Kevin C. Wilson, and Peter E. Morris
Monitoring Lung Cancer Screening Use and Outcomes at Four Cancer Research Network Sites, Michael K. Gould, Lori C. Sakoda, Debra P. Ritzwoller, Michael Simoff, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Lawrence H. Kushi, Lisa Carter-Harris, Heather S. Feigelson, George Minowada, and V P. Doria-Rose
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) presenting as thick-walled cavitary lung lesion, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, M R. Ahmad, S Murthi, and Jeffrey H. Jennings
Aripiprazole-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Swetha Murthi, Jeffrey H. Jennings, and Nazir Lone
Anaerobic antibiotic usage for pneumonia in the medical intensive care unit, Mutsumi J. Kioka, Bruno DiGiovine, Mohamed Rezik, and Jeffrey H. Jennings
Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Accreditation Standards: Executive Summary of the Multisociety Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Accreditation Committee, John J. Mullon, Kristin M. Burkart, Gerard Silvestri, D K. Hogarth, Francisco Almeida, David Berkowitz, George A. Eapen, David Feller-Kopman, Henry E. Fessler, Erik Folch, Colin Gillespie, Andrew Haas, Shaheen U. Islam, Carla Lamb, Stephanie M. Levine, Adnan Majid, Fabien Maldonado, Ali I. Musani, Craig Piquette, Cynthia Ray, Chakravarthy B. Reddy, Otis Rickman, Michael Simoff, Momen M. Wahidi, and Hans Lee
A Prediction Model to Help with the Assessment of Adenopathy in Lung Cancer: HAL, Oisin J. O'Connell, Francisco A. Almeida, Michael Simoff, Lonny Yarmus, Ray Lazarus, Benjamin Young, Yu Chen, Roy Semaan, Timothy M. Saettele, Joseph Cicenia, Harmeet Bedi, Corrine Kliment, Liang Li, Sonali Sethi, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, David Feller-Kopman, Juhee Song, Thomas Gildea, Hans Lee, Horiana B. Grosu, Michael Machuzak, Macarena Rodriguez-Vial, George A. Eapen, Carlos A. Jimenez, Roberto F. Casal, and David E. Ost
Recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of cognitive and psychiatric disorders in patients with COPD, Daniel R. Ouellette and Kim L. Lavoie
Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults: An Official American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Inspiratory Pressure Augmentation During Spontaneous Breathing Trials, Protocols Minimizing Sedation, and Noninvasive Ventilation Immediately After Extubation, Daniel R. Ouellette, Sheena Patel, Timothy D. Girard, Peter E. Morris, Gregory A. Schmidt, Jonathon D. Truwit, Waleed Alhazzani, Suzanne M. Burns, Scott K. Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L. Fraser, Michelle N. Gong, Catherine L. Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Amy J. Pawlik, William D. Schweickert, Curtis N. Sessler, Thomas Strøm, and John P. Kress
Response, Daniel R. Ouellette, Sheena Patel, Timothy D. Girard, Gregory A. Schmidt, Jonathon D. Truwit, and John P. Kress
Recommendations for the clinical management of patients receiving macitentan for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): A Delphi consensus document, Franck F. Rahaghi, Hassan M. Alnuaimat, Rana Awdish, Vijay P. Balasubramanian, Robert C. Bourge, Charles D. Burger, John Butler, C G. Cauthen, Murali M. Chakinala, Bennett P. de Boisblanc, Michael S. Eggert, Peter Engel, Jeremy Feldman, J W. McConnell, Myung Park, Jeffrey S. Sager, Namita Sood, and Harold I. Palevsky
Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults: Executive Summary of an Official American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline, Gregory A. Schmidt, Timothy D. Girard, John P. Kress, Peter E. Morris, Daniel R. Ouellette, Waleed Alhazzani, Suzanne M. Burns, Scott K. Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L. Fraser, Michelle N. Gong, Catherine L. Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Sheena Patel, Amy J. Pawlik, William D. Schweickert, Curtis N. Sessler, Thomas Strøm, Kevin C. Wilson, and Jonathon D. Truwit
Official Executive Summary of an American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults, Gregory A. Schmidt, Timothy D. Girard, John P. Kress, Peter E. Morris, Daniel R. Ouellette, Waleed Alhazzani, Suzanne M. Burns, Scott K. Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L. Fraser, Michelle N. Gong, Catherine L Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Sheena Patel, Amy J. Pawlik, William D. Schweickert, Curtis N. Sessler, Thomas Strøm, Kevin C. Wilson, and Jonathon D. Truwit
Diagnostic value of the physical examination in patients with dyspnea, Richard A. Shellenberger, Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, Sindhu Avula, Ariadne Ebel, and Sufiya Shaik
Hospital-based clinical pharmacy services to improve ambulatory management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Andrea Smith, James Kalus, Krishna Thavarajah, Bruno DiGiovine, and Nancy C. MacDonald
A Feasibility Assessment of Behavioral-based Interviewing to Improve Candidate Selection for a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Geneva Tatem, Maria Kokas, Cathy L. Smith, and Bruno DiGiovine
Reply: Combining Efforts for Positive Progress in the Graduate Medical Education Match Process, Geneva Tatem, Maria Kokas, Cathy L. Smith, and Bruno DiGiovine
Response, Jonathon D. Truwit, Timothy D. Girard, John P. Kress, Daniel R. Ouellette, and Gregory A. Schmidt
Submissions from 2016
A Young Man with Acute Progressive Respiratory Distress and a Right Inguinal Mass, Rodeo A. Abrencillo, Danai Khemasuwan, and Javier Diaz-Mendoza
The role of tyrosine kinase inhibitor "Lapatinib" in pulmonary hypertension, Yaser Alkhatib, Derar Albashaireh, Tameem Al-Aqtash, and Rana Awdish
"Ping-pong gaze" secondary to monoamine oxidase inhibitor overdose, Amy Attaway, Laila Sroujieh, Tracey L. Mersfelder, Christopher Butler, and Daniel R. Ouellette
Benefits of Early Active Mobility in the Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study, Ogochukwu Azuh, Harriet Gammon, Charlotte Burmeister, Donald Frega, David R. Nerenz, Bruno DiGiovine, and Aamir Siddiqui
Diagnostic value of end tidal capnography in patients with hyperglycemia in the emergency department, Ralphe Bou Chebl, Bryan Madden, Justin Belsky, Elie Harmouche, and Lenar Yessayan
Lung cancer screening: detected nodules, what next?, Yu Chen, Danai Khemasuwan, and Michael Simoff
Novel Multidisciplinary Management of a Retropharyngeal Hematoma With Pulmonary Stenting, Steven T. Cox, Eric Zimmerman, Drew Collins, Nicholas L. Richmond, and Michael Simoff
Drug Eluting Stents for Malignant Airway Obstruction: A Critical Review of the Literature, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, Paul Zarogoulidis, Georgia Pitsiou, Bernd Linsmeier, Drosos Tsavlis, Ioannis Kioumis, Eleni Papadaki, Lutz Freitag, Theodora Tsiouda, J F. Turner, Robert Browning, Michael Simoff, Nikolaos Sachpekidis, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Bojan Zaric, Lonny Yarmus, Sofia Baka, Grigoris Stratakos, and Harald Rittger
Inhaled Iloprost for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) During Pregnancy: A Case Report, Michelle Horng, Insaf Mohammad, Zachary R. Smith, Rana Awdish, and Hector R. Cajigas
"Alert and Oriented × 3?" Correlates of Mini-Cog Performance in a Post/Nondelirious Intensive Care Unit Sample, Mark W. Ketterer, Yathreb Alaali, Lenar Yessayan, and Jeffrey H. Jennings
Dipstick albuminuria and acute kidney injury recovery in critically ill septic patients, Javier A. Neyra, Xilong Li, Lenar Yessayan, Beverley Adams-Huet, Jerry Yee, and Robert D. Toto
Early goal-directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock: insights and comparisons to ProCESS, ProMISe, and ARISE, H B. Nguyen, Anja K. Jaehne, Namita Jayaprakash, Matthew W. Semler, Sara Hegab, Angel C. Yataco, Geneva Tatem, Dhafer Salem, Steven Moore, Kamran Boka, Jasreen Gill, Jayna Gardner-Gray, Jacqueline Pflaum, Juan P. Domecq, Gina Hurst, Justin B. Belsky, Raymond Fowkes, Ronald B. Elkin, Steven Q. Simpson, Jay L. Falk, Daniel J. Singer, and Emanuel Rivers
Diagnostic Yield and Complications of Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Lung Lesions Results of the AQuIRE Registry, David E. Ost, Armin Ernst, Xiudong Lei, Kevin L. Kovitz, Sadia Benzaquen, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, Sara Greenhill, Jennifer Toth, David Feller-Kopman, Jonathan Puchalski, Daniel Baram, Raj Karunakara, Carlos A. Jimenez, Joshua J. Filner, Rodolfo C. Morice, George A. Eapen, Gaetane C. Michaud, Rosa M. Estrada-Y-Martin, Samaan Rafeq, Horiana B. Grosu, Cynthia Ray, Christopher R. Gilbert, Lonny B. Yarmus, and Michael Simoff
Pleuritic Chest Pain in a 24-Year-Old Man with Crohn's Disease, Mohamed Rezik and Daniel R. Ouellette
Risk of Lung Cancer Associated with COPD Phenotype Based on Quantitative Image Analysis, Ann G. Schwartz, Christine M. Lusk, Angela S. Wenzlaff, Donovan Watza, Stephanie Pandolfi, Laura Mantha, Michele L. Cote, Ayman O. Soubani, Garrett Walworth, Antoinette Wozniak, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Amy A. Ardisana, Michael J. Flynn, Thomas Song, David L. Spizarny, P Kvale, Robert A. Chapman, and Shirish M. Gadgeel
Removal of Self-Expanding Metallic Stents, Shiwan K. Shah, Jeffrey H. Jennings, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, Lenar Yessayan, Cynthia Ray, and Michael Simoff
Treatment of patients with chronic thrombo embolic pulmonary hypertension: focus on riociguat, Zachary R. Smith, Charles T. Makowski, and Rana Awdish
Protocol-Based Resuscitation Bundle to Improve Outcomes in Septic Shock Patients: Evaluation of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone Sepsis Collaborative, Michael P. Thompson, Mathew J. Reeves, Brittany L. Bogan, Bruno DiGiovine, Patricia J. Posa, and Sam R. Watson
Submissions from 2015
Development of a modified yoga program for pulmonary hypertension: a case series, Rana Awdish, Bronwyn Small, and Hector Cajigas
Blue toe syndrome, ischemic pain treated with digital block., Justin Belsky, Heidi Alvey, Alexis Bencze, Brooke Thompson, and Stephanie Stokes-Buzzelli
Evaluation of the effectiveness of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. 1985, Shiro Fujita, William A. Conway, Jeanne M. Sicklesteel, Robert M. Wittig, Frank J. Zorick, Timothy Roehrs, and Thomas Roth
Response, Danai Khemasuwan, Carol F. Farver, and Atul C. Mehta
Right ventricular echocardiographic parameters are associated with mortality after acute pulmonary embolism, Danai Khemasuwan, Teerapat Yingchoncharoen, Pichapong Tunsupon, Kenya Kusunose, Ajit Moghekar, Allan Klein, and Adriano R. Tonelli
"Pills" and the air passages: a continuum, Elif Kupeli, Danai Khemasuwan, Pichapong Tunsupon, and Atul C. Mehta
Building and Validating a Computerized Algorithm for Surveillance of Ventilator-Associated Events, Tal Mann, Joseph Ellsworth, Najia Huda, Anupama Neelakanta, Thomas Chevalier, Kristin L. Sims, Sorabh Dhar, Mary E. Robinson, and Keith S. Kaye
Impact of a Simulation-Based Communication Workshop on Resident Preparedness for End-of-Life Communication in the Intensive Care Unit, Abraham Markin, Diego F. Cabrera-Fernandez, Rebecca M. Bajoka, Samantha M. Noll, Sean M. Drake, Rana L. Awdish, Dana S. Buick, Maria S. Kokas, Kristen A. Chasteen, and Michael Mendez
Vancomycin-induced acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) masquerading septic shock-an unusual presentation of a rare disease, Sagger Mawri, Tarun Jain, Jainil Shah, Gina Hurst, and Jennifer Swiderek
Common Congenital Anomalies of the Central Airways in Adults, Atul C. Mehta, Tany Thaniyavarn, Michael Ghobrial, and Danai Khemasuwan
Association of Hyperchloremia With Hospital Mortality in Critically Ill Septic Patients, Javier A. Neyra, Fabrizio Canepa-Escaro, Xilong Li, John Manllo, Beverley Adams-Huet, Jerry Yee, and Lenar Yessayan
Therapeutic bronchoscopy for malignant central airway obstruction: success rates and impact on dyspnea and quality of life, David E. Ost, Armin Ernst, Horiana B. Grosu, Xiudong Lei, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, Mark Slade, Thomas R. Gildea, Michael S. Machuzak, Carlos A. Jimenez, Jennifer Toth, Kevin L. Kovitz, Cynthia Ray, Sara Greenhill, Roberto F. Casal, Francisco A. Almeida, Momen M. Wahidi, George A. Eapen, David Feller-Kopman, Rodolfo C. Morice, Sadia Benzaquen, Alain Tremblay, and Michael Simoff
Complications Following Therapeutic Bronchoscopy for Malignant Central Airway Obstruction: Results of the AQuIRE Registry, David E. Ost, Armin Ernst, Horiana B. Grosu, Xiudong Lei, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, Mark Slade, Thomas R. Gildea, Michael S. Machuzak, Carlos A. Jimenez, Jennifer Toth, Kevin L. Kovitz, Cynthia Ray, Sara Greenhill, Roberto F. Casal, Francisco A. Almeida, Momen M. Wahidi, George A. Eapen, Lonny B. Yarmus, Rodolfo C. Morice, Sadia Benzaquen, Alain Tremblay, and Michael Simoff
Novel Use of Glidescope Indirect Laryngoscopy for Insertion of a Minnesota Tube for Variceal Bleeding, Adam B. Schlichting, Jayna Gardner-Gray, and Gina Hurst
Learning to Look Through the Bronchoscope, Michael J. Simoff
18 -FDG uptake in pulmonary dirofilariasis, Michael Stone, Ishani Dalal, C Stone, and Bhavin Dalal
Characteristics of a novel treatment system for linear accelerator-based stereotactic radiosurgery, Ning Wen, Haisen Li, Kwang Song, Karen C. Snyder, Yujiao Qin, Jinkoo Kim, Maria Bellon, Misbah Gulam, Stephen J. Gardner, Anthony Doemer, Suneetha Devpura, James Gordon, Indrin J. Chetty, Farzan Siddiqui, Munther Ajlouni, Robert Pompa, Zane Hammoud, Michael Simoff, Steven N. Kalkanis, Benjamin Movsas, and M. Salim Siddiqui
Treatment of Severe Metabolic Alkalosis with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Bicarbonate Kinetic Equations of Clinical Value, Lenar Yessayan, Jerry Yee, Stan Frinak, David Kwon, and Balazs Szamosfalvi
Submissions from 2014
Complex metallic stent removal: decade after deployment, Danai Khemasuwan, Thomas R. Gildea, and Michael S. Machuzak