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John G. Laffey

John G. Laffey

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
41793
World Ranking
8833
National Ranking
19

Overview

John G. Laffey is affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant body of work in pulmonary and respiratory medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

Laffey's research interests cover several main topics, including:

  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Bairbre McNicholas
  • Giacomo Bellani
  • Tài Pham
  • Claire Masterson
  • Antonio Artigas

John G. Laffey's research has been published extensively in leading medical journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Critical Care
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
  • Annals of Intensive Care

Some of the recent papers connected to their research area are:

  • "A minimal common outcome measure set for COVID-19 clinical research," 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Pathophysiology of COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a multicentre prospective observational study," 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "ESICM guidelines on acute respiratory distress syndrome: definition, phenotyping and respiratory support strategies," 2023, Intensive Care Medicine
  • "A New Global Definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome," 2023, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Intubation Practices and Adverse Peri-intubation Events in Critically Ill Patients From 29 Countries," 2021, JAMA

Best Publications

  • 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

  • A minimal common outcome measure set for COVID-19 clinical research

    John C. Marshall;Srinivas Murthy;Janet Diaz;Neil Adhikari

  • The systemic inflammatory response to cardiac surgery: implications for the anesthesiologist.

    John G Laffey;John F Boylan;Davy C H Cheng

  • The analgesic efficacy of transversus abdominis plane block after abdominal surgery: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

    John G McDonnell;Brian O'Donnell;Gerard Curley;Anne Heffernan

  • The analgesic efficacy of transversus abdominis plane block after cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial.

    John G McDonnell;Gerard Curley;John Carney;Aoife Benton

  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome subphenotypes and differential response to simvastatin: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

    Carolyn S Calfee;Kevin L Delucchi;Pratik Sinha;Michael A Matthay

  • Pathophysiology of COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a multicentre prospective observational study.

    Giacomo Grasselli;Giacomo Grasselli;Tommaso Tonetti;Alessandro Protti;Thomas Langer

  • The transversus abdominis plane block provides effective postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy.

    John Carney;John G McDonnell;Alan Ochana;Raj Bhinder

  • Noninvasive Ventilation of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Insights from the LUNG SAFE Study

    Giacomo Bellani;John G Laffey;Tài Pham;Fabiana Madotto

  • Transversus abdominis plane block: a cadaveric and radiological evaluation.

    John G. McDonnell;Brian D. O’Donnell;Thomas Farrell;Niall Gough

  • Simvastatin in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Daniel F. McAuley;John G. Laffey;John G. Laffey;Cecilia M. O'Kane;Gavin D. Perkins;Gavin D. Perkins

  • Challenges and solutions for addressing critical shortage of supply chain for personal and protective equipment (PPE) arising from Coronavirus disease (COVID19) pandemic - Case study from the Republic of Ireland.

    Neil J. Rowan;John G. Laffey

  • Studies on the spread of local anaesthetic solution in transversus abdominis plane blocks

    J. Carney;O. Finnerty;J. Rauf;D. Bergin

  • Therapeutic Hypercapnia Reduces Pulmonary and Systemic Injury following In Vivo Lung Reperfusion

    John G. Laffey;Motoshi Tanaka;Doreen Engelberts;Xiaoping Luo

  • Intubation Practices and Adverse Peri-intubation Events in Critically Ill Patients From 29 Countries.

    Vincenzo Russotto;Sheila Nainan Myatra;John G Laffey;John G Laffey;Elena Tassistro

  • Duration of analgesic effectiveness after the posterior and lateral transversus abdominis plane block techniques for transverse lower abdominal incisions: a meta-analysis

    F.W. Abdallah;F.W. Abdallah;J.G. Laffey;J.G. Laffey;S.H. Halpern;S.H. Halpern;R. Brull;R. Brull;R. Brull

  • Potentially modifiable factors contributing to outcome from acute respiratory distress syndrome: the LUNG SAFE study

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

  • Mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery and repair following ventilator-induced lung injury in the rat

    Gerard F Curley;Mairead Hayes;Bilal Ansari;Georgina Shaw

  • Comparison of Macintosh, Truview EVO2®, Glidescope®, and Airwayscope® laryngoscope use in patients with cervical spine immobilization

    M.A. Malik;C.H. Maharaj;B.H. Harte;J.G. Laffey

  • Carbon dioxide and the critically ill—too little of a good thing?

    John G Laffey;Brian P Kavanagh

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddy Fan
Eddy Fan University of Toronto
Daniel F. McAuley
Daniel F. McAuley Queen's University Belfast
Antonio Pesenti
Antonio Pesenti University of Milan
Arthur S. Slutsky
Arthur S. Slutsky University of Toronto
Marcus J. Schultz
Marcus J. Schultz University of Amsterdam
Antonio Artigas
Antonio Artigas Autonomous University of Barcelona
Timothy O'Brien
Timothy O'Brien University of Minnesota
Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Gordon D. Rubenfeld Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Luciano Gattinoni
Luciano Gattinoni University of Göttingen
Paolo Pelosi
Paolo Pelosi University of Genoa

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