A suspected case of delayed onset malignant hyperthermia with desflurane anesthesiaThomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, St Luke s Hospital Heart Center, Maumee, USA
Anesth Analg 98:548-9, table of contents. 2004
..There may be possible to engineer the risk of MH out of an anesthetic once the genetics of the ryanodine receptor are better understood...
- The obligation of physicians to medical outliers: a Kantian and Hegelian synthesis
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
BMC Med Ethics 5:E3. 2004
..In fact, some providers may try to avoid caring for them altogether, or at least try to limit their institutional or practice exposure to them...
- The student and the ovum: the lack of autonomy and informed consent in trading genes for tuition
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Reprod Biol Endocrinol 2:56. 2004
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- Stoicism, the physician, and care of medical outliers
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
BMC Med Ethics 5:E8. 2004
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- Early efficacy of CABG care delivery in a low procedure-volume community hospital: operative and midterm results
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
BMC Surg 5:10. 2005
..The latter confounds procedure-volume effects substantially, and it is suggested that high surgeon-volume (>125 per year) rather than hospital-volume may be a more appropriate indicator of CABG quality...
- Is hospital procedure volume a reliable marker of quality for coronary artery bypass surgery? A comparison of risk and propensity adjusted operative and midterm outcomes
Anoar Zacharias
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio 43608, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 79:1961-9. 2005
..Instead, outcome quality markers should rely on thorough risk-adjustment based on detailed clinical databases, possibly including annual and cumulative surgeon volume...
- Implementation of the "FASTHUG" concept decreases the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, USA
Patient Saf Surg 2:3. 2008
..We report implementation of a performance improvement project that dramatically reduced our VAP rate that had exceeded the 90th percentile nationally...
- Healthcare access as a right, not a privilege: a construct of Western thought
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 2:2. 2007
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- Implementation of an antibiotic nomogram improves postoperative antibiotic utilization and safety in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Toledo, USA
Patient Saf Surg 1:2. 2007
..A vancomycin dosing nomogram was derived from the local patient population in the attempt to improve patient safety by convincing clinicians to use an evidence-based approach to vancomycin prescription...
- Intensivist supervision of resident-placed central venous catheters decreases the incidence of catheter-related blood stream infections
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, USA
Patient Saf Surg 2:11. 2008
..6%) vs. 1/51 (1.9%), p < .01. Interventions to reduce CRBSI in our SICU needed emphasis on adequate supervision of trainees in CVC placement, in addition to use of MSB, to effect lower CRBSI rates...
- Pulmonary bullet embolism - a safe treatment strategy of a potentially fatal injury: a case report
Ali M Hassan
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Patient Saf Surg 3:12. 2009
..Vascular embolization of a projectile discharged from a weapon is a rare event. In this report a hunter's errant gunshot struck a farmer in the left chest...
- A struggle with obligation: ethical reflections on a transplantation program
Thomas J Papadimos
Anesthesiology Service, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, USA
Hosp Top 80:19-23. 2002
- Foucault's "fearless speech" and the transformation and mentoring of medical students
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 3:12. 2008
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- Inverse correlation between level of professional education and rate of handwashing compliance in a teaching hospital
Joan M Duggan
Department of Medicine, University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:534-8. 2008
..To evaluate educational level as a contributing factor in handwashing compliance...
- Bilateral bronchial intubation through a tracheostomy incision after innominate artery laceration
Gregory A Filatoff
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
J Clin Anesth 19:234-6. 2007
..The innominate artery was lacerated during tracheostomy. We describe a unique approach toward ventilation in this case in which two separate endotracheal tubes were connected through a Carlens tube adaptor...
- A primary high-grade pleomorphic pericardial liposarcoma presenting as syncope and angina
Thomas F Kindl
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Anesth Analg 102:1363-4. 2006
- Intraoperative identification of both a paradoxical embolism and its probable etiologic site
Andrew B Casabianca
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
J Clin Anesth 18:46-9. 2006
..This case presents the use of transesophageal echocardiography beyond its monitoring function in helping diagnose the cause of arterial ischemia...
- Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of a liver laceration accompanied by hemodynamic instability
James P Hofmann
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio 43614 2598, USA
Anesth Analg 98:611-3. 2004
..We report the diagnosis of a liver laceration in a trauma patient by novel use of the transesophageal echocardiographic imaging modality...
- Radial artery thrombosis, palmar arch systolic blood velocities, and chronic regional pain syndrome 1 following transradial cardiac catheterization
Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 57:537-40. 2002
..Rarely, chronic regional pain syndrome 1 (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) may occur...
- Neural network-based real-time prediction of glucose in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes
Scott M Pappada
Department of Bioengineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 3390, USA
Diabetes Technol Ther 13:135-41. 2011
..This article outlines a feed-forward neural network model (NNM) utilized for real-time prediction of glucose...
- Potential surgical site misidentification
Thomas J Papadimos
Anesth Analg 100:300. 2005
