Lorenzo Berra

Antibacterial-coated tracheal tubes cleaned with the Mucus Shaver : a novel method to retain long-term bactericidal activity of coated tracheal tubes.

Outcome of patients undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation after critical illness.

Determinants of tracheostomy decannulation: an international survey.

Internally coated endotracheal tubes with silver sulfadiazine in polyurethane to prevent bacterial colonization: a clinical trial.

Antimicrobial-coated endotracheal tubes: an experimental study.

Fatal heparin-induced thrombocytopenia 8 months after prior exposure to heparin.

Modifying endotracheal tubes to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.

A clinical assessment of the Mucus Shaver: a device to keep the endotracheal tube free from secretions.

Novel preventive strategies for ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Transfusion of stored autologous blood does not alter reactive hyperemia index in healthy volunteers.

Altered arterial compliance in hypertensive pregnant women is associated with preeclampsia.

Use of high-definition computed tomography to assess endotracheal tube luminal narrowing after mechanical ventilation.

Critical illness is associated with decreased plasma levels of coenzyme Q10: a cross-sectional study.

Ventilator associated pneumonia: evolving definitions and preventive strategies.

Removal of endotracheal tube obstruction with a secretion clearance device.

Autologous transfusion of stored red blood cells increases pulmonary artery pressure.

Tracheal tube obstruction in mechanically ventilated patients assessed by high-resolution computed tomography.

Alveolar pentraxin 3 as an early marker of microbiologically confirmed pneumonia: a threshold-finding prospective observational study.

Hemopexin in severe inflammation and infection: mouse models and human diseases.

Assisted mechanical ventilation: the future is now!

Evaluation of the Infection-Related Ventilator-Associated Events Algorithm for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Surveillance in a Trauma Population.

Recruitment Maneuvers and Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Titration in Morbidly Obese ICU Patients.

"Treating Lungs": The Scientific Contributions of Dr. Theodor Kolobow.

Microbiome, biofilms, and pneumonia in the ICU.

Should Ventilator-Associated Events become a Quality Indicator for ICUs?

Should Aerosolized Antibiotics Be Used to Treat Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?

On-demand erythrocyte disposal and iron recycling requires transient macrophages in the liver.

Endotracheal Tubes Cleaned With a Novel Mechanism for Secretion Removal: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Study.

Pulmonary and Systemic Vascular Resistances After Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Role of Hemolysis.

Respiratory Management of Perioperative Obese Patients.

Optimization of Mechanical Ventilation in a 31-Year-Old Morbidly Obese Man With Refractory Hypoxemia.

Electric Plasma-generated Nitric Oxide: Hemodynamic Effects in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension.

Performance of the PneuX System: A Bench Study Comparison With 4 Other Endotracheal Tube Cuffs.

Pathogenic Link Between Postextubation Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: An Experimental Study.

Beware the siren's song of novel endotracheal tube designs.

Transpulmonary Pressure Describes Lung Morphology During Decremental Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Trials in Obesity.

Randomized, multicenter trial of lateral Trendelenburg versus semirecumbent body position for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Targeted Temperature Management After Cardiac Arrest: Systematic Review and Meta-analyses.

Prediction of ARDS outcome: what tool should I use?

Exhaled CO, a guide to ARDS management during lung-protective ventilation?

A Triazole Disulfide Compound Increases the Affinity of Hemoglobin for Oxygen and Reduces the Sickling of Human Sickle Cells.

"Size Matters" in Regard to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Case Volume and Mortality!

Ted Kolobow.

High Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Allows Extubation of an Obese Patient.

What does the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome trial (ART) teach us?-it is time for precision medicine and precision trials in critical care!

Nitric Oxide Decreases Acute Kidney Injury and Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease after Cardiac Surgery.

Interpretation of Transpulmonary Pressure Measurements in a Patient with Acute Life-Threatening Pulmonary Edema.

Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes Cleaned With a Mechanism for Secretion Removal.

Why Not Prevent ARDS? The Possible Role of Plasma Biomarkers in Surgery.

On the Road to Surface Monitoring of Diaphragmatic Activity in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.

Improvement in Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation by Inhibition of S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase.

Inhaled nitric oxide prevents systemic and pulmonary vasoconstriction due to hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier infusion: A case report.

Cardiovascular Events and Hospital Deaths Among Patients With Severe Sepsis.

Depletion of Vascular Nitric Oxide Contributes to Poor Outcomes after Cardiac Arrest.

Lung Recruitment in Obese Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

In Response.

Nitric Oxide Treatment for Lungs and Beyond. Novel Insights from Recent Literature.

Protocol of a randomised controlled trial in cardiac surgical patients with endothelial dysfunction aimed to prevent postoperative acute kidney injury by administering nitric oxide gas.

Electrically generated nitric oxide from air: a safe and economical treatment for pulmonary hypertension.

Hemolysis and Kidney Injury in Cardiac Surgery: The Protective Role of Nitric Oxide Therapy.

The Role of Nitric Oxide in Preventing Cardiopulmonary Bypass-associated Acute Kidney Injury.

Independent lung ventilation: Implementation strategies and review of literature.

Effect of nitric oxide on postoperative acute kidney injury in patients who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass: a systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis.

Bedside Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism by Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Symposium: Hostility to Hospitality: Do I Need Mercy to be a Physician?

Old, older, the oldest: red blood cell storage and the potential harm of using older red blood cell concentrates.

A lung rescue team improves survival in obesity with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The intensive care unit: How to make this unfriendly environment geriatric-friendly.

Intratracheal injection of nitric oxide, generated from air by pulsed electrical discharge, for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in awake ambulatory lambs.

Ventilatory Mechanics in the Patient with Obesity.

Development of a Lung Rescue Team to Improve Care of Subjects With Refractory Acute Respiratory Failure.

Acute Upper Airway Obstruction.

Application of Lung Ultrasound During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.

Indoor temperature and relative humidity in hospitals: workplace considerations during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Home Nitric Oxide Therapy for COVID-19.

Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC).

In-hospital airway management of COVID-19 patients.

Protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing inhaled nitric oxide therapy in spontaneously breathing patients with COVID-19.

Protocol of a randomized controlled trial testing inhaled Nitric Oxide in mechanically ventilated patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome in COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

High-Dose Inhaled Nitric Oxide as Adjunct Therapy in Cystic Fibrosis Targeting .

Above and beyond: biofilm and the ongoing search for strategies to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

Transthoracic Echocardiography in Prone Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Feasibility Study.

Ideation and assessment of a nitric oxide delivery system for spontaneously breathing subjects.

High Concentrations of Nitric Oxide Inhalation Therapy in Pregnant Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Bedside monitoring of lung perfusion by electrical impedance tomography in the time of COVID-19.

High Pleural Pressure Prevents Alveolar Overdistension and Hemodynamic Collapse in ARDS with Class III Obesity.

Geographic Variation in Racial Disparities in Health and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Mortality.

Reply to Mezidi : Assessment of Airway Closure and Expiratory Airflow Limitation to Set Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in Morbidly Obese Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

In Response.

Bedside Electrical Impedance Tomography Unveils Respiratory "Chimera" in COVID-19.

Rescue Treatment With High-Dose Gaseous Nitric Oxide in Spontaneously Breathing Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Improving mucosal anesthesia for awake endotracheal intubation with a novel method: a prospective, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial.

Consequences to the Lungs When Gas Swings Between Lung Units During Patient Triggered Mechanical Ventilation.

Trends and Geographic Variation in Acute Respiratory Failure and ARDS Mortality in the United States.

Free Hemoglobin Ratio as a Novel Biomarker of Acute Kidney Injury After On-Pump Cardiac Surgery: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

The repurposed use of anesthesia machines to ventilate critically ill patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Right Ventricular Strain Is Common in Intubated COVID-19 Patients and Does Not Reflect Severity of Respiratory Illness.

Weaning patients with obesity from ventilatory support.

Identifying clinical and biochemical phenotypes in acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to coronavirus disease-2019.

Notch4 signaling limits regulatory T-cell-mediated tissue repair and promotes severe lung inflammation in viral infections.

Diminishing Efficacy of Prone Positioning With Late Application in Evolving Lung Injury.

A retrospective cohort study of 12,306 pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States.

The repurposed use of anesthesia machines to ventilate critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery Systems for Mechanically Ventilated and Nonintubated Patients: A Review.

Severe bleeding in the ICU.

Pleural Pressure Targeted Positive Airway Pressure Improves Cardiopulmonary Function in Spontaneously Breathing Patients With Obesity.

Respiratory Physiology of Prone Positioning With and Without Inhaled Nitric Oxide Across the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Severity Spectrum.

Individualized Multimodal Physiologic Approach to Mechanical Ventilation in Patients With Obesity and Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Reduced Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Utilization.

Efficiency of Prolonged Prone Positioning for Mechanically Ventilated Patients Infected with COVID-19.

Inhaled high dose nitric oxide is a safe and effective respiratory treatment in spontaneous breathing hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

High-Dose Nitric Oxide From Pressurized Cylinders and Nitric Oxide Produced by an Electric Generator From Air.

Transpulmonary Pressure-Guided Lung-Protective Ventilation Improves Pulmonary Mechanics and Oxygenation Among Obese Subjects on Mechanical Ventilation.

Milrinone as Compared with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock.

Unsuccessful and Successful Clinical Trials in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Addressing Physiology-Based Gaps.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia among SARS-CoV-2 acute respiratory distress syndrome patients.

Noninvasive respiratory support for COVID-19 patients: when, for whom, and how?

In memoriam: Warren M. Zapol.

Nitric oxide: Clinical applications in critically ill patients.

A Physiological Hypothesis to Support the Use of CPAP at Extubation Among Patients with Obesity.

Delivering Low Tidal Volume With Anesthesia and ICU Ventilators in a Neonatal Lung Model.

Modulation of pulmonary blood flow in patients with acute respiratory failure.

Development of nitric oxide generators to produce high-dose nitric oxide for inhalation therapy.

Navigating Uncertainty: Should We Consider Inspiratory Muscle Training Following Esophagectomy?

Assessment of continuous low-dose and high-dose burst of inhaled nitric oxide in spontaneously breathing COVID-19 patients: A randomized controlled trial.

Feasibility of Delivering a 5-Day Normobaric Hypoxia Breathing in Healthy Volunteers in a Hospital Setting.