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Textbooks:

1)     Fraser & Parc – Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest, 4th edition. 1999.
2)     West – Pulmonary Pathophysiology:  The Essentials.  2003
3)     Felson’s Principles of Chest Roentgenology
4)     Principles of Critical Care. Jesse Hall 2005
5)     Baum-Edition 7; Pulmonary Diseases-2004

Clinics in Chest Medicine:

1)     Sleep-related breathing disorders:  new developments.  June 2003.
2)     Venous thromboembolism.   March 2003
3)     Pulmonary function testing.  December 2001.
4)     Smoking and Cardiovascular diseases. March 2000
5)     Pneumonia in the Hospital Setting. March 2005
6)     Pleural Diseases. June 2006
7)     Asthma March 2006
8)     Thoracic manifestations of the systemic autoimmune diseases.  December 1998
9)     Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome December 2006

Seminars in Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine:

1)     Venous thromboembolism:  a critical appraisal.  No. 6, 2000.
2)     Managing sedation, analgesia, etc. in the ICU.  No. 2, 2001
3)     Emerging infections in the ICU.  No. 1, 2003.
4)     Ventilator Associated Pneumonia. vol.27, Feb. 2006
5)     Non Pulmonary Critical Care. vol.27, June 2006
6)     Community Acquired Pneumonia. vol.26, Dec. 2005
7)     Management of emergencies in critical care.  No. 1, 2002.
8)     Management of Shock: Dec. 2004
9)     COPD. April. 2005
10)   Sleep and Respiration. Feb. 2005

Updates on Non-Pulmonary Critical Care:
Am J Resp & Critical Care Med

1)      Advances in critical care hepatology. 2003:1421-1426.
2)      Acquired neuromuscular disorders in the ICU.  2003:735-739.
3)      Interventional therapy for coronary artery disease. 2002:791-796.
4)      Enhancing the safety…reducing catheter-related infections.  2002:147-1479.
5)      Renal replacement in ARF.  2000:777-781.
6)      Thrombocytopenic disorders in critically ill patients.  2000:347-351.
7)      
Management of cardiac arrhythmias. 2000:1070-1073.
8)      Advances in critical care gastroenterology.  2000:1417-1420.
9)      Trauma critical care.  2001:604-607.
10)    Adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients.  2001:1520-1523.
11)    Critical care neurology.  2001:341-345.
12)    Congestive heart failure.  2002:4-8..
13)    Prevention of ARF in the critically ill.  2002:320-324.
14)    Otolaryngology in Crical Care : Vol. 169: pp1273-1277  
15     
Pressure to withhold or withdraw life sustaining therapy from critically ill patients. 2007:1104-1108.

Additional Selected Articles:

New Engl J Med

1)      Treatment of acute ischemic stroke.  2000(343):710-722.
2)      Daily interruption of sedatives.  2000(342):1471-1477.
3)      Diagnosis of brain death.  2001(344):1215-1221.
4)      Aspiration pneumnia.  2001(344)667-671.
5)      Pathophysiology and treatment of sepsis.  2003(348):138-150.
6)      Corticosteriod insufficiency in acutely ill patients.  2003(348):727-734.
7)      Management of drug and alcohol withdrawal.  2003(348):1786-1795.
8)      Preventing complications of central catheters.  2003(348):1123-1133.
9)      Heat stroke.  2002(346):1978-1988.
10)    Acute Renal Failure & Sepsis: July 8, 2004, pg 159-169
11)    Management of COPD June 2004 pp2689-2695
12)    Multidectector CT in PE: April,28, 2005 pp1760-1768
13)    Delirium in Older Persons. March16, 2006 pg.1157-1165
14)    Pulmonary Artery Cath. vs. CV cath. in Acute Lung Injury. May 25, 2006 pg2213-2224
15)    Outcome Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. July 20, pg260-269
16)    Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia. Aug. 24, 2006 pg 809-817
17)    Management of Sepsis. Oct. 2006, pgs. 1699-1713
18)    Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU. Dec. 28, 2006 pgs.2725-2732   
19)    
The Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiureses. May 17, 2007.


Am Rev of Resp and Crit Care

1)      Hemodynamic instability in sepsis.  2003(168):1270-1276.
2)      Acute severe asthma.  2003(168):740-759.
3)      Sedation and analgesia in the ICU.  2001(166):1024-1028.
4)      Evidence based Colloid use in Critical Care Consensus: Vol.170 pp1247-1259, 2004
5)      Missed Opportunities during Family Conferences about end of life: vol.171 pp844-849, 2004
6)      Immunologic and Hemodynamic Effects of Low Dose Hydrocortisone in Septic Shock. vol.167,2003,pgs512-520
7)      Tidal Volume Reduction ARDS. vol. 172, 2005. pgs.1241-1245

Chest

1)      Sodium bicarbonate in lactic acidosis.  2000(117):261.
2)      Fever in the ICU.  2000(117):855.
3)      Diagnosis and management of hypertensive crises.  2000(118):214
4)      CPAP in treatment of CHF.  2001(120):1675.
5)      BAD medicine: low dose dopamine.  2003(123):1269.
6)      Adult toxicology in critical care 2003(123): 577 (Pt 1) and 2003(123):897 (Pt 2)   
7)      
Management of head trauma. 2002(122):699
8)      Predicting fluid responsiveness in ICU patients. 2003(121):2000.
9)    Morbid obesity in the medical ICU.  2001(120):1989.
10)    Impact/Prognosis of normotensive patients with PE. 2004(125)1539-1544.
11)    Transfusion related acute lung injury. 2004(126):249-257.
12)    Empiric treatment of community acquired pneumonia. 2004(125):1913-1918.
13)    Airway management of critically ill. 2005(127)1397.
14)    Evaluation of transfusion practice in patients on vent. 2005(127):928.
15)    Anemia, allogenic blood transfusion and immunomodulation in critically ill. 2005(127):295-307.
16)    Bedside ultrasound in the ICU. Part 1 (881-895).
                                                  Part 2 (1766-1781).
17)    Risk of catheter related infection 2005:489-495.
18)    Antibiotics utilization and outcomes VAP and BAL cultures. 2005:2706-2713.
19)    Enteral feeding on outcome in ventilatory medical patients. 2006(129):960-967.
20)    Common causes of troponin elevations. 2004(125):1877-1884.
21)    Ultrasound guided thoracentesis. 2006(129):1709-1714.
22)    Sepsis associated myocardial dysfunction. 2006(129):1349-1366.
23)    Diagnosis and treatment of VAP. 2006:567-604.
24)    Early goal-directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock revisited. 2006:1579-1595.
25)    
Hypertensive crises. June 2007:1949-1958.
26)    Controversies in RBC transfusion in critically ill. May 2007:1583-1588.
27)    Prevention of acute renal failure. Jan. 2007:300-306.
28)    Airway management in critical illness. Feb. 2007:608-618.
29)    ICU acquired weakness. May 2007:1541-1548.
30)    FFP and platelet transfusions are associated with acuter lung injury. May 2007:1308-1314.



Other Journal of Interest

1)      
Evidence based prevention of ventilator pneumonia.  Annals of Intern Med. 2004(141):305-315.
2)      Management guidelines in severe sepsis and shock. Critical Care Medicine. (32):858-868.
3)      
Alternative causes of elevated cardiac troponin. Annals of Intern Med. 2005        
4)      B-Type naturetic peptide. Crit Care Med: Vol. 33 no.9:2094-2100.
5)      
I'm not ready for hospice. Ann Int Med:2007:444-448.
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