Dr. Barry David Fuchs MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Barry Fuchs practices Pulmonology in Philadelphia, PA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Fuchs 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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A dyspnea evaluation protocol for respiratory therapists: a feasibility study.
- Ventilator auto-triggering in a patient with tuberculous bronchopleural fistula.
- Successful aeromedical transport using inhaled prostacyclin for a patient with life-threatening hypoxemia.
- The outcome of extubation failure in a community hospital intensive care unit: a cohort study.
- Failure mode and effects analysis application to critical care medicine.
- Effect of airway pressure display on interobserver agreement in the assessment of vascular pressures in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Measurement of a baseline minute ventilation for the calculation of minute ventilation recovery time: is a subjective method reliable?
- Underuse of lung protective ventilation: analysis of potential factors to explain physician behavior.
- Evaluation of a new method for measurement of minute ventilation recovery time.
- Airway pressure release and biphasic intermittent positive airway pressure ventilation: are they ready for prime time?
- Abdominal compartment syndrome is common in medical intensive care unit patients receiving large-volume resuscitation.
- Identifying and implementing quality improvement measures in the intensive care unit.
- Minute ventilation recovery time measured using a new, simplified methodology predicts extubation outcome.
- Potential reasons why physicians underuse lung-protective ventilation: a retrospective cohort study using physician documentation.
- Improving sepsis care through systems change: the impact of a medical emergency team.
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