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Voltaire's Candide, medical students, and mentoringThomas J Papadimos
University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 2:13. 2007....- Healthcare access as a right, not a privilege: a construct of Western thoughtThomas 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.... - Implementation of the "FASTHUG" concept decreases the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unitThomas 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... - Implementation of an antibiotic nomogram improves postoperative antibiotic utilization and safety in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graftingThomas 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... - The beneficial effects of inhaled nitric oxide in patients with severe traumatic brain injury complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome: a hypothesisThomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
J Trauma Manag Outcomes 2:1. 2008.... - Foucault's "fearless speech" and the transformation and mentoring of medical studentsThomas 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.... - Intensivist supervision of resident-placed central venous catheters decreases the incidence of catheter-related blood stream infectionsThomas 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... - Labetalol infusion for refractory hypertension causing severe hypotension and bradycardia: an issue of patient safetySamir Fahed
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo 43614, USA
Patient Saf Surg 2:13. 2008.... - Successful use of inhaled nitric oxide to decrease intracranial pressure in a patient with severe traumatic brain injury complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome: a role for an anti-inflammatory mechanism?Thomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 17:5. 2009..We propose that INO may decrease the inflammatory response in patients with increased intracranial pressure caused by traumatic brain injury accompanied by acute respiratory distress syndrome thereby contributing to improved outcomes... - Reflective thinking and medical students: some thoughtful distillations regarding John Dewey and Hannah ArendtThomas J Papadimos
University of Toledo College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 4:5. 2009.... - Pulmonary bullet embolism - a safe treatment strategy of a potentially fatal injury: a case reportAli 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... - Is hospital procedure volume a reliable marker of quality for coronary artery bypass surgery? A comparison of risk and propensity adjusted operative and midterm outcomesAnoar 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... - Neural network-based real-time prediction of glucose in patients with insulin-dependent diabetesScott 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... - The obligation of physicians to medical outliers: a Kantian and Hegelian synthesisThomas 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... - Stoicism, the physician, and care of medical outliersThomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
BMC Med Ethics 5:E8. 2004.... - A struggle with obligation: ethical reflections on a transplantation programThomas J Papadimos
Anesthesiology Service, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, USA
Hosp Top 80:19-23. 2002 - Inverse correlation between level of professional education and rate of handwashing compliance in a teaching hospitalJoan 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... - Early efficacy of CABG care delivery in a low procedure-volume community hospital: operative and midterm resultsThomas 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... - A primary high-grade pleomorphic pericardial liposarcoma presenting as syncope and anginaThomas 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 siteAndrew 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... - Machiavelli's advice to the hospital chief executive officerThomas J Papadimos
Department of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, Ohio, USA
Hosp Top 82:12-7. 2004..We have taken the thoughts and strategies of the Renaissance political master, Niccolo Machiavelli, and applied them to the modern hospital CEO for whom we feel they still hold elements of wisdom and guidance... - Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of a liver laceration accompanied by hemodynamic instabilityJames 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 catheterizationThomas 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... - Development of a neural network model for predicting glucose levels in a surgical critical care settingScott M Pappada
University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Patient Saf Surg 4:15. 2010.... - Bilateral bronchial intubation through a tracheostomy incision after innominate artery lacerationGregory 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... - Potential surgical site misidentificationThomas J Papadimos
Anesth Analg 100:300. 2005