Dr. Brian Kent Gehlbach MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
200 Hawkins Drive C33-Gh University Of Iowa Health Care Division Of Pulmonar Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Brian Gehlbach practices Pulmonology in Iowa City, IA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Gehlbach 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
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The utility of albuterol nebulized with heliox during acute asthma exacerbations.
- Sedation in the intensive care unit.
- The pulmonary manifestations of left heart failure.
- Daily interruption of sedative infusions and complications of critical illness in
- Daily sedative interruption in mechanically ventilated patients at risk for coronary artery disease.
- Diagnostic utility of B-type natriuretic peptide in critically ill patients with pulmonary edema: a prospective cohort study.
- Excessive tidal volume from breath stacking during lung-protective ventilation for acute lung injury.
- A randomized, controlled trial evaluating postinsertion neck ultrasound in peripherally inserted central catheter procedures.
- Pulmonary medicine and critical care.
- Acute cardiopulmonary failure from sleep-disordered breathing.
- Temporal disorganization of circadian rhythmicity and sleep-wake regulation in mechanically ventilated patients receiving continuous intravenous sedation.
- WHO's in second?: A practical review of World Health Organization group 2 pulmonary hypertension.
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