Dr. Mark J Rumbak MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd Tampa FL, 33612Rating
4/5
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Dr. Mark Rumbak practices Pulmonology in Tampa, FL. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Rumbak 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
Univ Of The Witwatersrand- Med Sch- Johannesburg- So Africa 1978
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences 1978
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The initial pulmonary evaluation of the immunocompromised patient.
- Should patients with neuromuscular disease be denied the choice of the treatment of mechanical ventilation?
- Reassessment of the role of theophylline in the current therapy for nocturnal asthma.
- A diagnostic approach to 'difficult' asthma.
- Correct use of metered-dose inhalers and spacer devices.
- A prospective, randomized, study comparing early percutaneous dilational tracheotomy to prolonged translaryngeal intubation (delayed tracheotomy) in critically ill medical patients.
- Case report: inflammatory bronchial flap and 'check valve' bronchial obstruction.
- Pneumonia in patients who require prolonged mechanical ventilation.
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia.
- The pathogenesis of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
- Reducing emergency department visits and hospitalizations in African American and Hispanic patients with asthma: a 15-year review.
- Mobilizing the patient in the intensive care unit: the role of early tracheotomy.
- Mortality and tracheotomy.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis: etiology, pathophysiology and treatment.
- Use of peak flow meters in asthmatics.
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