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2026

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Overview

Tobias Welte is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work focuses on several subfields, including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Physiology, and Surgery.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Asthma and respiratory diseases, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment.

Among the recent papers published by Tobias Welte are:

  • Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021, 2021, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2021, 2021, Critical Care Medicine
  • Case characteristics, resource use, and outcomes of 10,021 patients with COVID-19 admitted to 920 German hospitals: an observational study, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Towards the elimination of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a Lancet Commission, 2022, The Lancet

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Tobias Welte include:

  • Claus Vogelmeier
  • Sascha David
  • Robert Bals
  • Benjamin Seeliger
  • Jan Fuge

The scientist has contributed regularly to several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Pneumologie
  • CHEST Journal
  • Infection
  • ERJ Open Research

Best Publications

  • Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021.

    Laura Evans;Andrew Rhodes;Waleed Alhazzani;Massimo Antonelli

  • Intensive insulin therapy and pentastarch resuscitation in severe sepsis.

    Frank M. Brunkhorst;Christoph Engel;Frank Bloos;Andreas Meier-Hellmann

  • Weaning from mechanical ventilation

    J.-M. Boles;J. Bion;A. Connors;M. Herridge

  • International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia

    Antoni Torres;Michael S Niederman;Jean Chastre;Santiago Ewig

  • Clinical and economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia among adults in Europe

    T Welte;A Torres;D Nathwani

  • European Respiratory Society guidelines for the management of adult bronchiectasis

    Eva Polverino;Pieter C Goeminne;Melissa J McDonnell;Melissa J McDonnell;Stefano Aliberti

  • Epidemiology of sepsis in Germany: results from a national prospective multicenter study

    Christoph Engel;Frank M. Brunkhorst;Hans-Georg Bone;Reinhard Brunkhorst

  • Case characteristics, resource use, and outcomes of 10 021 patients with COVID-19 admitted to 920 German hospitals: an observational study

    Christian Karagiannidis;Carina Mostert;Corinna Hentschker;Thomas Voshaar

  • Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation for the treatment of severe stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective, multicentre, randomised, controlled clinical trial

    Thomas Köhnlein;Wolfram Windisch;Dieter Köhler;Anna Drabik

  • COPD in never smokers: results from the population-based burden of obstructive lung disease study.

    Bernd Lamprecht;Mary Ann McBurnie;William M. Vollmer;Gunnar Gudmundsson

  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Awake Patients as Bridge to Lung Transplantation

    Thomas Fuehner;Christian Kuehn;Johannes Hadem;Olaf Wiesner

  • Procalcitonin to initiate or discontinue antibiotics in acute respiratory tract infections

    Philipp Schuetz;Yannick Wirz;Ramon Sager;Mirjam Christ-Crain

  • Goal-oriented treatment and combination therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension

    M M Hoeper;I Markevych;E Spiekerkoetter;T Welte

  • Efficacy and Tolerability of Budesonide/Formoterol Added to Tiotropium in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Tobias Welte;Marc Miravitlles;Paul Hernandez;Göran Eriksson

  • Cathepsin-regulated apoptosis.

    C E Chwieralski;T Welte;F Bühling

  • Effect of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment on mortality in acute respiratory infections: a patient level meta-analysis

    Philipp Schuetz;Yannick Wirz;Ramon Sager;Mirjam Christ-Crain;Mirjam Christ-Crain

  • New perspectives on community-acquired pneumonia in 388 406 patients. Results from a nationwide mandatory performance measurement programme in healthcare quality.

    Santiago Ewig;Norbert Birkner;Richard Strauss;Elke Schaefer

  • CRB-65 predicts death from community-acquired pneumonia.

    T. T. Bauer;S. Ewig;R. Marre;N. Suttorp

  • The prognostic impact of follow-up assessments in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

    N Nickel;H Golpon;M Greer;L Knudsen

  • Procalcitonin to initiate or discontinue antibiotics in acute respiratory tract infections (Review)

    Schuetz P;Müller B;Christ-Crain M;Stolz D

Frequent Co-Authors

Marius M. Hoeper
Marius M. Hoeper Hannover Medical School
Claus Vogelmeier
Claus Vogelmeier Philipp University of Marburg
Axel Haverich
Axel Haverich Hannover Medical School
Antoni Torres
Antoni Torres University of Barcelona
Francesco Blasi
Francesco Blasi University of Milan
Sabina Janciauskiene
Sabina Janciauskiene Hannover Medical School
Michael Tamm
Michael Tamm University Hospital of Basel
James D. Chalmers
James D. Chalmers University of Dundee
Renaud Louis
Renaud Louis University of Liège
Stefano Aliberti
Stefano Aliberti Humanitas University

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