NicholasASmyrniosMD

PubMed

• 94 citations
  Interpretation of positive results of a methacholine inhalation challenge and 1 week of inhaled bronchodilator use in diagnosing and treating cough-variant asthma.
  Richard S. Irwin, Cynthia T. French, Nicholas A. Smyrnios, Frederick J. Curley
  Archives of Internal Medicine. 1997-09-22
• 218 citations
  Procalcitonin for reduced antibiotic exposure in ventilator-associated pneumonia: a randomised study
  Daiana Stolz, Nicholas A. Smyrnios, Philippe Eggimann, Hans Pargger, Nehal Thakkar
  The European Respiratory Journal. 2009-12-01
• 45 citations
  From a Prospective Study of Chronic Cough Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects in Older Adults
  Nicholas A. Smyrnios, Richard S. Irwin, Frederick J. Curley, Cynthia L. French
  Archives of Internal Medicine. 1998-06-08

Journal Articles

• Routine monitoring of critically ill patients.  
  Curley FJ, Smyrnios NA, J Intensive Care Med; 5:153-174
• Current concepts in the pathophysiology and management of near-drowning.  
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, J Intensive Care Med; 6:26-35
• Clinicopathologic Conference: A critically ill patient with cholestatic jaundice and altered mental status.  
  Labarre R, Smyrnios NA, J Intensive Care Med;6:143-149
• Clinicopathologic Conference: A 47 year old woman with hypotension and recurrent pulmonary infiltrates.  
  Smyrnios NA, Forster R, Hollingsworth HM, Jederlinic PJ, Gitlin D, Clive D, Linden C, J Intensive Care Med;7:261-273
• Clinicopathologic Conference: A 37 year old woman with altered mental status, fever, and renal failure.  
  Smyrnios NA, Nitzberg MC, Irwin RS, et al, J Intensive Care Med;8:298-309
• Accuracy of 30 minute indirect calorimetry (IC) studies in predicting 24 hour energy expenditure (EE) in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients.  
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, Shaker KG, JPEN; 21:168-174
• The effect of liposome encapsulated PGE1 on systemic oxygen delivery and consumption in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).  
  Heard SO, Longtine K, Smyrnios N, Puyana JC, J Intensive Care Med;17:127-131
• The effect of encapsulated PGE1 on systemic oxygen delivery and consumption in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).  
  Heard SO, Longtine K, Smyrnios N, Puyana JC, J Intensive Care Med;17:127-131
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Books/Book Chapters

• Internal Medicine Pearls. 
  Chapter: A 54 year old woman with a persistent cough 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: JE Heffner, SA Sahn. Hanley and Belfus.PhiladelphiaEdition 2,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Mechanical Ventilation Part III: Discontinuation 
  Page 658 - 669Irwin RS, Smyrnios NA, Hubmayr RDEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 7,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Routine Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients 
  Page 227 - 245Troy P, Smyrnios NA, Howell MDEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 7,
• Manual of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Aspiration and Drowning 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 5,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Drowning 
  Page 607 - 613Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 6,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Indirect Calorimetry 
  Page 256 - 260Smyrnios NA, Curley FJEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 6,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Routine monitoring of Critically Ill Patients 
  Howell MD, Curley FJ, Smyrnios NAEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 6,
• Manual of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Aspiration and Near Drowning 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
• Manual of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Indirect Calorimetry 
  Page 115 - 118Smyrnios NA, Curley FJEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 4,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Indirect Calorimetry 
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 5,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Routine Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients 
  Curley FJ, Smyrnios NAEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 5,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Near-drowning 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 5,
• Cardiovascular Medicine, Practice and Management. 
  Chapter: Management of pulmonary emergencies 
  Smyrnios NA, Murillo BARC Becker, JS Alpert. Arnold Publishers, London
• Manual of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Aspiration and Near-Drowning 
  Page 293 - 297Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams& Wilkins, Philadelphia
• Manual of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, Irwin RS 
  Page 106 - 110Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin and JM Rippe.Lippincott Williams& Wilkins, Philadelphia
• Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Near-drowning 
  Page 532 - 539Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: JM Rippe, RS Irwin, JS Alpert, MP Fink.Little, Brown and Company, BostonEdition 2,
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Indirect Calorimetry 
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJEditors: RS Irwin, JM Rippe, F Cerra.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 4,
• Review of Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Nicholas A. SmyrniosEditors: Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, Cerra F, Rippe JM.Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, New York
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Routine Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients 
  Page 250 - 270Curley FJ, Smyrnios NAEditors: RS Irwin, JM Rippe, F Cerra.Lippincott-Raven
• Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Near-drowning 
  Page 692 - 699Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin, JM Rippe, F Cerra.Lippincott-Raven
• Critical Care Pearls. 
  Chapter: Status asthmaticus 
  Page 419 - 421Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: SA Sahn, JE Heffner.Hanley and Belfus,Inc, Philadelphia
• Symptoms of the Respiratory Tract. 
  Chapter: Wheeze 
  Page 117 - 153Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: RS Irwin, FJ Curley, RF Grossman.Futura Publishing, Armonk
• Textbook of Internal Medicine. 
  Chapter: Approach to the patient with cough 
  Page 1912 - 1917Smyrnios NA, Irwin RSEditors: WN Kelley. J.B.Lippincott Company, PhiladelphiaEdition 3,
• Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Indirect Calorimetry 
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJEditors: JM Rippe, RS Irwin, MP Fink, F Cerra.Little Brown and Company, BostonEdition 3,
• Intensive Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Monitoring in the ICU 
  Page 275 - 294Curley FJ, Smyrnios NAEditors: JM Rippe, RS Irwin, MP Fink, F Cerra.Little Brown and Company, BostonEdition 3,
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Abstracts/Posters

• Acute physiologic changes during threshold inspiratory resistive loading.
  Curley FJ, Jederlinic PJ, Smyrnios NA, Hoffman P, Am Rev Respir Dis; 141:A721
• Indirect calorimetry in the medical ICU: Comparison with traditional practice and effect on cost of care.
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, Jederlinic PJ, Hoffman P, Phillpotts M, Egan P, Larrivee G, Irwin RS, Am Rev Respir Dis; 141:A581
• Acute effects of nutritional changes and role in weaning.
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, Jederlinic PJ, Hoffman P, Larrivee G, Chest; 98:103S
• The effect of inhaled metaproterenol on cough-variant asthma.
  Irwin RS, French CL, Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, LaJeunesse SM, Lenard RA, Bennett, FM, Am Rev Respir Dis;145:A12
• Chronic cough in the elderly: Causes and outcome of diagnostic evaluation and specific therapy.
  Smyrnios NA, Curley FJ, French CL, Irwin RS, Am Rev Respir Dis; 147: A381
• Causes, evaluation, and treatment of chronic bronchorrhea.
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, Curley FJ, Am Rev Respir Dis;147:A871
• The role of bronchoscopy following negative sputum induction in the diagnosis of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the HIV and non-HIV immunocompromised individual.
  Osmanski JO, Schaefer OP, Smyrnios NA, Horan GF, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;153:A437
• Short term impact of a multidisciplinary ventilator management program on quality of care, ICU utilization, and economics.
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, Curley FJ, French CL, Bergeron J, Gaw V, Krikorian C, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;153:A548
• A multidisciplinary ventilator management program: improvement in quality of care, ICU utilization, and economics at one year.
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, Connolly A, Curley FJ, Krikorian C, and the UMMC Ventilator Management Team, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;155: A19
• The effect of liposome encapsulated PGE1 (C-53) on hydrogen peroxide concentrations in the expired breath of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Hughes F, Longtine K, Smyrnios N, Puyana JC, Potenza B, Frassica J, Toth I, Heard S, Anesth Analg
• The effect of liposome encapsulated PGE1 on systemic oxygen delivery and consumption in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Heard SO, Longtine K, Smyrnios NA, Puyana JC, Crit Care Med;27:A125 (suppl.)
• Applicability of prediction rules in patients with severe community acquired pneumonia.
  Collins RM, Smyrnios NA, Schaefer OP, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;163: A806
• Nasojejunal feeding in pancreatitis: a single center experience.
  Marshall C, Wassef W, Smyrnios N, Leblanc G, American J Gastroenterology;106:s74
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Lectures

• 24th Annual Frontiers in Critical Care Nursing 
  University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Marlborough, Massachusetts - 5/7/2013
• Initiation and Maintenance of Mechanical Ventilation. 
  Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, CT
• Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation - The UMass Experience. 
  Pulmonary Grand Rounds, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA
• Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation – The UMass Experience. 
  Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, CT
• Hiccup. 
  Chest 1999 – Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, Chicago, IL
• Extrapulmonary Barriers to Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation. 
  29th Educational and Scientific Symposium, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Orlando, FL
• How to Monitor Quality and Performance in the ICU. 
  American College of Chest Physicians, San Francisco, CA
• Extrapulmonary Barriers to Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation. 
  American College of Chest Physicians, San Francisco, CA
• Management of Hiccup. 
  American College of Chest Physicians, San Francisco, CA
• Programs for Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation – What works and how? 
  American College of Chest Physicians, Philadelphia, PA
• Programs for Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation – What works and how? What doesn’t work and why? 
  Pulmonary Grand Rounds, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Brighton, MA
• Unsuspected Bacterial Suppurative Disease of the Airways Presenting as Chronic Cough. 
  Chest 2002, Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, San Diego, CA
• Mechanical Ventilation in Status Asthmaticus. 
  Chest 2005, Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, Montreal, QC, Canada
• Use of Physician Extenders in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  Chest 2006, Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Mechanical Ventilation in Status Asthmaticus. 
  Chest 2006, Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 
  Medical Grand Rounds, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA
• Management of Acute Exacerbations of Asthma. 
  Athol Memorial Hospital, Athol, MA
• Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 
  Medical Grand Rounds, Harrington Hospital, Southbridge, MA
• Moderator, Ethics and Treatment Issues Discussion. 
  Medical Grand Rounds, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
• Severe Acute respiratory Failure: Organizing Pneumonia. 
  Medical Grand Rounds M+M, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
• Programs for Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation – What works and how? What doesn’t work and why? 
  UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
• Outpatient Mgt.of Asthma. 
  HIV Provider Group, Div. Of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical
• New Medications for Asthma. 
  Asthma Awareness Group, Shrewsbury Middle School, Shrewsbury, MA
• Computers in Critical Care: Windows to the Future. 
  University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
• Impact of a Multidisciplinary Ventilator Management Protocol. 
  University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
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Other

• Sailing or sinking ship? The pulmonary artery catheter treads water. 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, J Intensive Care Med; 12:113-115
• The jury on femoral venous catheters is still out. 
  Smyrnios NA, Irwin RS, Critical Care Medicine;25:1943-1946
• Editorial Consultant. 
  Smyrnios NA, Lippincott’s Interactive Critical Care Library on CD-ROM
  New York