Dr. Boyd Taylor Thompson MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
55 Fruit St Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Boyd Thompson practices Pulmonology in Boston, MA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Thompson manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
University of California 1978
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Glucocorticoids and acute lung injury.
- Meta-analysis of tidal volumes in ARDS.
- The role of open-lung biopsy in ARDS.
- Challenges in end-of-life care in the ICU. Statement of the 5th International Consensus Conference in Critical Care: Brussels, Belgium, April 2003.
- Higher versus lower positive end-expiratory pressures in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Neutrophil elastase inhibition in acute lung injury: results of the STRIVE study.
- Clinical issues and research in respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndrome.
- Recommendations for informed consent forms for critical care clinical trials.
- Methods of monitoring shock.
- Ventilatory strategies in patients with sepsis and respiratory failure.
- Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony during lung protective ventilation: what's a clinician to do?
- Tidal volumes in acute respiratory distress syndrome--one size does not fit all.
- Letter regarding article by Brueckmann et al, "prognostic value of plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in patients with severe sepsis".
- Natriuretic peptide testing for the evaluation of critically ill patients with shock in the intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study.
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