636 top medical experts on Respiratory Therapy across 54 countries and 43 U.S. states, including 495 MDs (Physicians). This is based on an objective analysis of their Scientific Publications, Clinical Trials, Medicare, and NIH Grants.

  1. Respiratory Therapy: Care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities associated with the cardiopulmonary system. It includes the therapeutic use of medical gases and their administrative apparatus, environmental control systems, humidification, aerosols, ventilatory support, bronchopulmonary drainage and exercise, respiratory rehabilitation, assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and maintenance of natural, artificial, and mechanical airways.
  2. Clinical guidelines are the recommended starting point to understand initial steps and current protocols in any disease or procedure:
  3. Broader Categories (#Experts): Therapeutics (909) and Narrower Categories: Artificial Respiration (4,198), Chest Wall Oscillation (652), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (4,701), Oxygen Inhalation Therapy (2,813), Postural Drainage (180).
  4. Synonyms: Inhalation Therapy


  

        

                    


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  1. Dhand, Rajiv   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Department of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA. .
    Physician  Highly Cited  Highly Published 
    Medical school: Other (MD, 1976)
    Medicare Accepted; Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 96/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 48 biomedical companies, totalling $5,728.17, including $2,275.93 from  Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Bronchodilator Agents; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Nebulizers and Vaporizers; Advisory Committees
    Categories: Psychology; History; Methods; Standards; Administration & Dosage; Drug Therapy
    What the pulmonary specialist should know about the new inhalation therapies. (2011)
    Inhalation Therapy for Stable COPD: 20 Years of GOLD Reports. (2020)

  2. Nici, Linda   Pulmonary Disease  Google Publications
    Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
    Physician  Highly Cited  Highly Published 
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Exercise Therapy; Community Health Services; Delivery of Health Care; Disease Progression
    Categories: Methods; Rehabilitation; Therapy; Education
    Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. (2015)
    Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Education in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. An Official American Thoracic Society/Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand/Canadian Thoracic Society/British Thoracic Society Workshop Report. (2018)

  3. Sawnani, Hemant   Pediatric Pulmonology  Google Publications
    Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
    Physician  Highly Published  Guideline  Clinical Trial 
    Subjects: Muscular Dystrophies; Algorithms; Hip Joint; Insufflation; Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
    Categories: Therapy; Surgery; Complications; Methods
    Respiratory Management of the Patient With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. (2018)
    Implementation of Postoperative Respiratory Care for Pediatric Orthopedic Patients. (2015)

  4. Stoller, James K   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Department of Respiratory Therapy, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
    Physician  Highly Published 
    Medical school: Yale University School of Medicine (MD, 1979)
    Medicare Accepted
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 6 biomedical companies, totalling $8,353.33, including $3,000 from  Grifols, S.A.
    Subjects: Clinical Protocols; Organizational Innovation; Referral and Consultation; Allied Health Personnel; Catheterization, Peripheral
    Categories: Methods; Statistics & Numerical Data; Trends; Etiology; Diagnosis; Education
    Knowledge of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency among internal medicine house officers and respiratory therapists: results of a survey. (2010)
    Detection of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency by respiratory therapists: experience with an educational program. (2014)

  5. Bach, John Robert   Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation   Google Publications
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, Behavioral Health Sciences Building, 183 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. Electronic address: .
    Physician  Highly Published  Case Reports 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 74/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 7 biomedical companies, totalling $920.66, including $599 from  NS Pharma, Inc.
    Subjects: Neuromuscular Diseases; Insufflation; Respiration, Artificial; Respiratory Insufficiency; Respiratory Muscles
    Categories: Methods; Physiopathology; Rehabilitation; Therapy; Complications; Abnormalities
    Efficacy of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation in extubating unweanable subjects with restrictive pulmonary disorders. (2015)
    Decanulation of patients with severe respiratory muscle insufficiency: efficacy of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation. (2014)

  6. Kollef, Marin H   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri.
    Physician  Highly Published  Clinical Trial 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 84/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 8 biomedical companies, totalling $15,868.13, including $3,600 from  Sage Therapeutics, Inc.
    Subjects: Allied Health Personnel; Emergency Service, Hospital; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; Patient Education as Topic; Patient Readmission
    Categories: Statistics & Numerical Data; Therapy; Trends; Methods
    A Respiratory Therapist Disease Management Program for Subjects Hospitalized With COPD. (2017)
    Evaluating the Value of the Respiratory Therapist: Where Is the Evidence? Focus on the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Experience. (2017)

  7. Manaker, Scott   Critical Care Medicine  Google Publications
    Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 78/100
    Subjects: Medicare; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    Categories: Economics; Therapy
    Counterpoint: Should Medicare allow respiratory therapists to independently practice and bill for educational activities related to COPD? No. (2014)
    Rebuttal from Drs Courtright and Manaker. (2014)

  8. Aranson, Robert   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Maine General Medical Center, Freeport, ME. Electronic address: .
    Physician  Highly Published 
    Medical school: Tufts University School of Medicine (MD, 1980)
    Medicare Accepted; Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 65.7/100
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Medicare; Health Maintenance Organizations; Pulmonary Medicine
    Categories: Economics; Organization & Administration; Therapy; Rehabilitation; Standards
    Point: Should Medicare allow respiratory therapists to independently practice and bill for educational activities related to COPD? Yes. (2014)
    Rebuttal from Drs Fuhrman and Aranson. (2014)

  9. Wolfe, Lisa F   Pulmonary Disease  Google Publications
    Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Top Hospital
    Physician  Guideline 
    Medical school: Ohio State University College of Medicine (MD, 1992)
    Medicare Accepted; Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 86.9/100
    Subjects: Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne; Neuromuscular Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases
    Categories: Complications; Methods; Therapy
    Respiratory Management of the Patient With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. (2018)
    Respiratory Care in Neuromuscular Diseases. (2018)

  10. Berlinski, Ariel   Pediatric Pulmonology  Google Publications
    Department of Pediatrics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine Pulmonary Medicine Section Arkansas Childrens Hospital Pediatric Aerosol Research Laboratory Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research Institute Little Rock, Arkansas.
    Physician  Highly Published 
    Medical school: Other (MD, 1989)
    Medicare Accepted
    Subjects: Insufflation; Aerosols; Airway Management; Cough; Family Relations
    Categories: Instrumentation; Psychology; Administration & Dosage; Organization & Administration; Statistics & Numerical Data
    Survey of aerosol delivery techniques to spontaneously breathing tracheostomized children. (2012)
    Transition of respiratory technology dependent patients from pediatric to adult pulmonology care. (2015)

  11. Fuhrman, Thomas M   Anesthesiology  Google Publications
    Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Tampa, FL.
    Physician  Highly Published 
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Medicare; Health Maintenance Organizations; Pulmonary Medicine
    Categories: Economics; Organization & Administration; Therapy; Rehabilitation; Standards
    Point: Should Medicare allow respiratory therapists to independently practice and bill for educational activities related to COPD? Yes. (2014)
    Rebuttal from Drs Fuhrman and Aranson. (2014)

  12. Rubin, Bruce K   Pediatric Pulmonology   Google Publications
    Childrens Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. .
    Physician  Guideline 
    Disclosed payments from biomedical company (Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH) in 2021 for $825
    Subjects: Airway Management; Mucociliary Clearance; Respiratory System Agents
    Categories: Methods; Trends
    AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Airway Clearance Therapies in Hospitalized Patients. (2015)
    Cystic Fibrosis 2017-The Year in Review. (2018)

  13. Zapol, Warren M   Anesthesiology   Google Publications
    Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Subjects: Nitric Oxide; Air; Calcium Hydroxide; Electricity; Hypertension, Pulmonary
    Categories: Administration & Dosage; Drug Therapy; Instrumentation; Metabolism; Methods
    Producing nitric oxide by pulsed electrical discharge in air for portable inhalation therapy. (2015)
    Development of a portable mini-generator to safely produce nitric oxide for the treatment of infants with pulmonary hypertension. (2018)

  14. Cooper, Christopher B   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: . Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 4 biomedical companies, totalling $15,939.21, including $15,925 from  GlaxoSmithKline, LLC.
    Subjects: Adrenergic beta-Agonists; Algorithms; Muscarinic Antagonists; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Pneumonectomy; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    Categories: Therapeutic Use; Therapy
    A new algorithm for the management of COPD. (2015)
    COPD management: need for more consensus - Authors' reply. (2015)

  15. Barjaktarevic, Igor   Pulmonary Disease  Google Publications
    Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 67/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 8 biomedical companies, totalling $10,186.5, including $5,101.5 from  AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
    Subjects: Adrenergic beta-Agonists; Algorithms; Muscarinic Antagonists; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Pneumonectomy; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    Categories: Therapeutic Use; Therapy
    A new algorithm for the management of COPD. (2015)
    COPD management: need for more consensus - Authors' reply. (2015)

  16. Morgenthaler, Timothy I   Pulmonary Disease   Google Publications
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: . Top Hospital
    Physician  Clinical Trial 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 79.7/100
    Disclosed payments from biomedical company (ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.) in 2021 for $2,500
    Subjects: Postoperative Complications; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Positive-Pressure Respiration
    Categories: Epidemiology; Methods; Prevention & Control
    Does autotitrating positive airway pressure therapy improve postoperative outcome in patients at risk for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome? A randomized controlled clinical trial. (2013)
    Response. (2013)

  17. Martinez, Fernando J   Critical Care Medicine  Google Publications
    Weill Cornell Medical College New York, New York.
    Physician  Clinical Trial 
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 30 biomedical companies, totalling $42,204.87, including $9,119.29 from  F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Aminopyridines; Benzamides; Critical Care; Editorial Policies
    Categories: Therapeutic Use; Drug Therapy; Physiopathology; Trends
    Does roflumilast decrease exacerbations in severe COPD patients not controlled by inhaled combination therapy? The REACT study protocol. (2012)
    Ending on a Crescendo: Reflections on Seven Years of a Successful Journal. (2021)

  18. Dransfield, Mark T   Critical Care Medicine  Google Publications
    c Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Birmingham , AL , USA.
    Physician 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 72.3/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 4 biomedical companies, totalling $7,756.75, including $5,143 from  Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Exercise Tolerance; Minority Groups; Patient Compliance; Poverty
    Categories: Statistics & Numerical Data; Rehabilitation; Methods
    Social Determinants of Adherence to Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. (2017)
    Pulmonary Rehabilitation Improves Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Independent of Disease Burden. (2017)

  19. Rehder, Kyle J   Pediatric Critical Care Medicine   Google Publications
    Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Subjects: Albuterol; Anti-Asthmatic Agents; Bronchodilator Agents; Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; Length of Stay
    Categories: Methods; Statistics & Numerical Data; Therapeutic Use; Administration & Dosage; Therapy
    Adjunct Therapies for Refractory Status Asthmaticus in Children. (2017)
    A Respiratory Therapist-Driven Asthma Pathway Reduced Hospital Length of Stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. (2019)

  20. Carlin, Brian W   Pulmonary Disease  Google Publications
    Sleep Medicine and Lung Health Consultants, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
    Physician 
    Medical school: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (MD, 1981)
    Medicare Accepted
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 10 biomedical companies, totalling $1,349.34, including $795 from  Mylan Specialty L.P.
    Subjects: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Nebulizers and Vaporizers; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Patient Satisfaction; Pulmonologists
    Categories: Psychology
    Results of a Patient Survey Regarding COPD Knowledge, Treatment Experiences, and Practices With Inhalation Devices. (2018)
    Results of a Pulmonologist Survey Regarding Knowledge and Practices With Inhalation Devices for COPD. (2018)

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