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Mark Tobin

Australian Synchrotron
Verified email at synchrotron.org.au
Cited by 9103

Disorders of the respiratory muscles

F Laghi, MJ Tobin - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
The act of breathing depends on coordinated activity of the respiratory muscles to generate
subatmospheric pressure. This action is compromised by disease states affecting anatomical …

Advances in mechanical ventilation

MJ Tobin - New England Journal of Medicine, 2001 - Mass Medical Soc
The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory
support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I …

Mechanical ventilation

MJ Tobin - New England Journal of Medicine, 1994 - Mass Medical Soc
That positive-pressure mechanical ventilation can save lives was proved during the poliomyelitis
epidemics of the 1950s 1 . Since that time there has been a growing increase in the use …

Characteristics and outcomes in adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation: a 28-day international study

…, C Apezteguía, P Nightingale, AC Arroliga, MJ Tobin… - Jama, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe outcome of patients receiving mechanical ventilation for particular indications
has been studied, but the outcome in a large number of unselected, heterogeneous patients …

[HTML][HTML] A prospective study of indexes predicting the outcome of trials of weaning from mechanical ventilation

KL Yang, MJ Tobin - New England Journal of Medicine, 1991 - Mass Medical Soc
Background. The traditional predictors of the outcome of weaning from mechanical ventilation
— minute ventilation (V E ) and maximal inspiratory pressure (P 1 max) — are frequently …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of four methods of weaning patients from mechanical ventilation

A Esteban, F Frutos, MJ Tobin, I Alía… - … England Journal of …, 1995 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is an important problem in intensive
care units. Weaning is usually conducted in an empirical manner, and a standardized …

How is mechanical ventilation employed in the intensive care unit? An international utilization review

…, J Pimentel, G Raimondi, MJ Tobin - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
A 1-d point-prevalence study was performed with the aim of describing the characteristics of
conventional mechanical ventilation in intensive care units ICUs from North America, South …

Why COVID-19 silent hypoxemia is baffling to physicians

MJ Tobin, F Laghi, A Jubran - … journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are described as exhibiting oxygen levels
incompatible with life without dyspnea. The pairing—dubbed happy hypoxia but more precisely …

Effect of spontaneous breathing trial duration on outcome of attempts to discontinue mechanical ventilation

A Esteban, I Alia, MJ Tobin, A Gil, F Gordo… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
The duration of spontaneous breathing trials before extubation has been set at 2 h in research
studies, but the optimal duration is not known. We conducted a prospective, multicenter …

Bone lead levels and delinquent behavior

HL Needleman, JA Riess, MJ Tobin, GE Biesecker… - Jama, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
… of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh (Pa) School of Medicine (Drs Needleman and Riess
and Ms Biesecker); Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh (Pa) (Dr Tobin); …