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B. Taylor Thompson

B. Taylor Thompson

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
110
Citations
113875
World Ranking
5407
National Ranking
2913

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Surgery

His primary areas of study are ARDS, Intensive care medicine, Internal medicine, Lung injury and Intensive care. The study incorporates disciplines such as Clinical trial, Severity of illness, Intensive care unit and Hypoxemia in addition to ARDS. His Intensive care medicine research includes themes of Observational study, MEDLINE, Sepsis, Anesthesiology and Acute respiratory distress.

His study in Internal medicine is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Placebo, Surgery and Cardiology. His Lung injury research incorporates themes from Respiratory disease and Anesthesia, Mechanical ventilation, Breathing. The Mechanical ventilation study combines topics in areas such as Prone ventilation and Airway pressure release ventilation.

His most cited work include:

  • Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. (8816 citations)
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome: the Berlin Definition. (4828 citations)
  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008. (3749 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Intensive care medicine, ARDS, Internal medicine, Lung injury and Anesthesia are his primary areas of study. His Intensive care medicine research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Clinical trial, MEDLINE, Sepsis, Anesthesiology and Acute kidney injury. His research investigates the connection between ARDS and topics such as Severity of illness that intersect with problems in Prospective cohort study.

His research investigates the connection with Internal medicine and areas like Surgery which intersect with concerns in Odds ratio. B. Taylor Thompson has included themes like Mechanical ventilation, Intensive care and Pathology in his Lung injury study. His Mechanical ventilation research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Emergency medicine and Respiratory failure.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Intensive care medicine (36.61%)
  • ARDS (35.04%)
  • Internal medicine (29.92%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • ARDS (35.04%)
  • Intensive care medicine (36.61%)
  • Acute respiratory distress (12.99%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include ARDS, Intensive care medicine, Acute respiratory distress, Anesthesia and Internal medicine. His ARDS study incorporates themes from Clinical trial, Hypoxemia, Meta-analysis, Severity of illness and Intensive care unit. His Severity of illness study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Prospective cohort study and Intensive care.

His Intensive care medicine study combines topics in areas such as Observational study, MEDLINE, Sepsis, Disease and Coronavirus disease 2019. His studies in Anesthesia integrate themes in fields like Respiratory physiology, Lung injury and Shock. His research in Lung injury intersects with topics in Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and Pathology.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 (2235 citations)
  • Epidemiology, Patterns of Care, and Mortality for Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Units in 50 Countries (1777 citations)
  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016. (1523 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Surgery

His primary areas of study are ARDS, Intensive care medicine, Internal medicine, Acute respiratory distress and Randomized controlled trial. His work carried out in the field of ARDS brings together such families of science as Severity of illness and Mechanical ventilation, Positive end-expiratory pressure. B. Taylor Thompson has researched Mechanical ventilation in several fields, including Respiratory physiology and Lung injury.

His studies deal with areas such as Guideline, Observational study, MEDLINE and Sepsis as well as Intensive care medicine. His research in the fields of Surviving Sepsis Campaign and Septic shock overlaps with other disciplines such as Research design and Lumpers and splitters. His Randomized controlled trial study combines topics in areas such as Clinical trial, Logistic regression, Norepinephrine, Placebo and Biomarker.

Best Publications

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

    Andrew Rhodes;Laura E. Evans;Waleed Alhazzani;Mitchell M. Levy

  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome: the Berlin Definition.

    Ards Definition Task Force;V Marco Ranieri;Gordon D Rubenfeld;B Taylor Thompson

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008.

    R. Phillip Dellinger;Mitchell M. Levy;Jean M. Carlet;Julian Bion

  • Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    Roy G Brower;Michael A Matthay;Alan Morris

  • Epidemiology, Patterns of Care, and Mortality for Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Units in 50 Countries

    Giacomo Bellani;John G. Laffey;John G. Laffey;Tài Pham;Tài Pham;Eddy Fan;Eddy Fan

  • Comparison of two fluid-management strategies in acute lung injury.

    Herbert P Wiedemann;Arthur P Wheeler

  • Higher versus Lower Positive End-Expiratory Pressures in Patients with the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Roy G Brower;Paul N Lanken;Neil MacIntyre;Michael A Matthay

  • Intensity of renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury

    Paul M. Palevsky;Jane Hongyuan Zhang;Theresa Z. O'Connor;Glenn M. Chertow

  • Efficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids for Persistent Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Kenneth P. Steinberg;Leonard D. Hudson;Richard B. Goodman;Catherine Lee Hough

  • The Berlin definition of ARDS: An expanded rationale, justification, and supplementary material

    Niall D. Ferguson;Eddy Fan;Luigi Camporota;Massimo Antonelli

  • Recombinant human interleukin 1 receptor antagonist in the treatment of patients with sepsis syndrome. Results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Phase III rhIL-1ra Sepsis Syndrome Study Group.

    Fisher Cj;Dhainaut Jf;Opal Sm;Pribble Jp

  • An Official American Thoracic Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Eddy Fan;Lorenzo Del Sorbo;Ewan C. Goligher;Carol L. Hodgson

  • Subphenotypes in acute respiratory distress syndrome: latent class analysis of data from two randomised controlled trials.

    Carolyn S Calfee;Kevin Delucchi;Polly E Parsons;B Taylor Thompson

  • The clinical course of pulmonary embolism.

    Jeffrey L. Carson;Mark A. Kelley;Amy Duff;John G. Weg

  • Risk factors associated with mortality among patients with COVID-19 in intensive care units in Lombardy, Italy

    G. Grasselli;M. Greco;A. Zanella;G. Albano

  • Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in adults with septic shock

    V. Marco Ranieri;B. Taylor Thompson;Philip S. Barie;Jean-François Dhainaut

  • Lower tidal volume ventilation and plasma cytokine markers of inflammation in patients with acute lung injury.

    Polly E. Parsons;Mark D. Eisner;B Taylor Thompson;Michael A. Matthay

  • Angiotensin II for the Treatment of Vasodilatory Shock.

    Ashish Khanna;Shane W. English;Xueyuan S. Wang;Kealy Ham

  • Comparison of two fluid-management strategies in acute lung injury

    H.P. Wiedemann;A.P. Wheeler;G.R. Bernard

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 (Intensive Care Medicine (2008) 34, (17-60))

    R. Phillip Dellinger;Mitchell M. Levy;Jean M. Carlet;Julian Bion

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Matthay
Michael A. Matthay University of California, San Francisco
Roy G. Brower
Roy G. Brower Johns Hopkins University
David C. Christiani
David C. Christiani Harvard University
Gordon R. Bernard
Gordon R. Bernard Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Gordon D. Rubenfeld Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Carolyn S. Calfee
Carolyn S. Calfee University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen D. Liu
Kathleen D. Liu University of California, San Francisco
Arthur S. Slutsky
Arthur S. Slutsky University of Toronto
David A. Schoenfeld
David A. Schoenfeld Harvard University
Lorraine B. Ware
Lorraine B. Ware Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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