Thomas A. Raffin MD

PubMed

• 305 citations
  Reliability of the thermodilution method in the determination of cardiac output in clinical practice.
  Christian W. Stetz, Rupert G. Miller, Gabriel E. Kelly, Thomas A. Raffin
  The American Review of Respiratory Disease. 2015-05-14
• 314 citations
  The NHLBI lymphangioleiomyomatosis registry: characteristics of 230 patients at enrollment.
  Jay H. Ryu, Joel Moss, Gerald J. Beck, Jar Chi Lee, Kevin K. Brown
  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2006-01-01
• 31 citations
  Nicotine addiction through a neurogenomic prism: ethics, public health, and smoking.
  Lorraine Caron, Katrina Karkazis, Thomas A. Raffin, Gary E. Swan, Barbara A. Koenig
  Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2005-04-01

Journal Articles

• Recurrent pulmonary emboli with duplication of inferior vena cava.  
  Miller SW, Baker AR, Raffin TA, van Houten FX, N Engl J Med
• Separating cardiac from pulmonary dyspnea.  
  Raffin TA, Theodore J, JAMA
• Paraquat ingestion and pulmonary injury.  
  Raffin TA, Robin ED, Pickersgill J, Theodore J, Laman PD, Simon LM, West J Med
• Bioenergetic pattern of isolated Type II pneumocytes in air during hypoxia.  
  Simon LM, Robin ED, Raffin TA, Theodore J, Douglas WHJ, J Clin Invest
• Effects of high oxygen exposure on bioenergetics in isolated Type II pneumocytes.  
  Simon LM, Raffin TA, Douglas WHJ, Theodore J, Robin ED, J Appl Phys: Respirat Environ Physiol
• Pectus excavatum and cardiopulmonary complications.  
  Abuabara F, Robin ED, Myers C, Theodore J, Hamner P, Raffin TA, Hance A, Newman A, Lynne-Davies P, West J Med
• The effects of variable O2 tension and of exogenous superoxide dismutase on Type II pneumocytes exposed to paraquat.  
  Raffin TA, Simon LM, Douglas WHJ, Theodore J, Robin ED, Lab Invest
• Impairment of phagocytosis by moderate hyperoxia (40%-60% oxygen) in lung macrophages.  
  Raffin TA, Simon LM, Braun D, Theodore J, Robin ED, Lab Invest
• Consultant cases in clinical management: A young woman with sudden chest pain.  
  Raffin TA, Consultant
• The lack of effect of variable blood withdrawal rates on the measurement of mixed venous oxygen saturation.  
  Mihm F, Feely TW, Rosenthal M, Raffin TA, Chest
• Diagnosis: The dyspneic patient.  
  Raffin TA, Hosp Med
• Consultant cases in clinical management: A middle-aged man with weakness and dyspnea.  
  Raffin TA, Consultant
• Viral Pneumonia.  
  Raffin TA, Hosp Med (1981, 1990)
• The prevention and treatment of status asthmaticus.  
  Raffin TA, Roberts P, Hosp Pract
• Management strategies in respiratory failure.  
  Raffin TA, Roberts P, Hosp Pract
• Pancoast syndrome.  
  Raffin TA, Hosp Pract (1982); Hosp Med (1986)
• Association of prior nocardiosis and subsequent occurrence of nontuberculous mycobacteriosis in a defined, immunosuppressed population.  
  Simpson G, Raffin TA, Remington JS, J Inf Dis
• Hyperoxia-induced alterations in lung cell structure and function: Effects on cellular cyclic AMP content and comparison to alterations produced by exogenous cyclic AMP.  
  Hance AJ, Theodore J, Robin ED, Raffin TA, Kurland G, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
• Reliability of thermodilution cardiac outputs in clinical practice.  
  Stetz CW, Miller RG, Kelly GE, Raffin TA, Am Rev Respir Dis
• Factitious hemoptysis: The case of the red towel.  
  Feinsilver SJ, Raffin TA, Kornei TA, Sullivan SJ, Smith MA, Arch Int Med
• Intensive care units: The right to live, the right to die.  
  Raffin TA, Stanford Magazine
• Inflammatory crystallosis: IgA gammopathy, polyserositis, and extensive fibrosis associated with intracellular crystalline protein deposits.  
  Kent D, Kosek J, Raffin TA, Matsui S, Fossell M, Lipil W, Murray J, West J Med
• Niacin reduces oxygen toxicity in mouse alveolar macrophages.  
  Pearl RG, Raffin TA, Pharm
• The value of a stage prop: Screening for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  
  Freedman S, Raffin TA, Rothkopf MH, Eddy DM, Chest
• Invasive diagnostic approaches to pulmonary infiltrates.  
  Raffin TA, West J Med
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Books/Book Chapters

• Current Respiratory Care. 
  Chapter: Acute exacerbation’s of asthma in status asthmaticus: Ventilatory management 
  Duncan SR, Raffin TAEditors: Stoller JK, Kasmarek RM.B.C. Decker Inc, New York
• Principles of Critical Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Perspectives on clinical medical ethics 
  Raffin TAEditors: Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LDH.McGraw Hill Inc, New York
• Foundations of Respiratory Care. 
  Chapter: Ethical issues in respiratory care 
  Raffin TAEditors: Pierson DJ, Kasmarek RM, Spearman CB.Churchill Livingstone Inc, London
• The Pulmonary Circulation and Acute Lung Injury. 
  Chapter: Attenuation of neutrophil-mediated acute lung injury 
  Crowley JJ, Waldman SA, Raffin TAEditors: Said SI.Futura Publishing Co, New York
• Obstetric Service. 
  Wolfe HB, Iskanders M, Raffin TAMedical Facilities Planning Group
• Oxygen Toxicity - Etiology. 
  Raffin TAInternational Anesthesiology Clinics
• Critical Care: State of the Art. 
  Chapter: Novel approaches to ARDS and sepsis 
  Raffin TAThe Society of Critical Care Medicine, Fullerton, California
• Common Diagnostic Tests: Use and Interpretation. 
  Chapter: Indications for ABG analysis 
  Raffin TAEditors: Sox H.American College of Physicians, Philadelphia
• Future Directions for AIDS Research: The Report of the Extramural Consultants of the NIH Executive Committee: Record Regarding NIH Plan for AIDS Research. 
  Chapter: Intensive care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 
  Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hopewell PC, Lo B, Cohen NH, Raffin TANIH, Bethesda, Maryland
• Pharmacology and Toxicology of Proteins. 
  Chapter: Murine monoclonal antibodies neutralizing the effects of porcine C5a 
  Page 255 - 272Deinhart T, Wang J, Toy K, Ishizaka A, Stephens KE, Hall EW, Raffin TA, Chenoweth DE, Kunkel SL, Larrick JWEditors: Winkelhake JL, Hulcenberg JS.Alan R. Liss, New York
• Pentoxifylline and Leukocyte Function. 
  Chapter: Preventive effects of pentoxifylline on Escherichia coli - induced acute lung injury and multi-organ damage in guinea pigs 
  Ishizaka A, Harada H, Stephens KE, Wu Z, Hatherill JR, Mallick A, Segall GM, Lilly CM, O'Hanley PT, Raffin TAEditors: Mandell GL, Novick WJ.Hoeschst-Roussel Inc, New York
• Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease. 
  Chapter: Other immunosuppressive diseases 
  Duncan S, Raffin TAEditors: Murray JF.Marcel Dekker
• The Pocket Consultant. 
  Chapter: Pulmonary consultations 
  Yamaguchi L, Raffin TAEditors: Lewis A.Little Brown & Co, New York
• Annual Review of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  Chapter: Ethics in Critical Care 
  Raffin TAEditors: Matthay RM, Matthay MA, Wiedemann HP.Hanley & Belfus, PennsylvaniaEdition 5,
• Pentoxifylline and Analogues, Effects on Leukocyte Function. 
  Chapter: Attenuation of septic and TNF-induced acute lung injury in guinea pigs by pentoxifylline, aminophylline, and HWA-138 
  Hatherill JR, Zheng H, Yonemaru M, Hoffmann H, Crowley JJ, Fujishima S, Ishizaka A, Lilly CM, Segall GM, Raffin TAEditors: Mandell GL, Novick WJ, Hakim J.Hoechst-Roussel Inc, New York
• Current Pulmonology. 
  Chapter: Acute lung injury: Mechanisms and potential therapy 
  Crowley JJ, Raffin TAEditors: Simmons DH, Tierney D.Yearbook Medical Publishers, Chicago
• Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 
  Chapter: Ethics and withdrawal of support 
  Raffin TAEditors: Murray JF, Nadel JA.W.B. Saunders and Co, Philadelphia
• Critical Care Pearls. 
  Chapter: Withholding and withdrawing life support 
  Raffin TAEditors: Sahn SA, Heffner JE.C.V. Mosby Co, Pennsylvania
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Update. 
  Chapter: Withholding and withdrawing life support 
  Raffin TAAmerican College of Chest Physicians, New Jersey
• Medico-legal Aspects of Chest Disease. 
  Chapter: Withholding and withdrawing life support 
  Raffin TAEditors: Vevaina JR, Bone R.Springer-Verlag, New York
• Current Pulmonology. 
  Chapter: Withholding and withdrawing life support 
  Cook D, Raffin TAEditors: Simmons DH, Tierney D.Yearbook Medical Publishers, Chicago
• Textbook of Cardiac Intensive Care. 
  Chapter: Ethical issues of ICU care 
  Gilligan T, Raffin TAEditors: Brown DL.W.B. Saunders & Co
• Intensive Care: Facing the Critical Choices. 
  Raffin TA, Shurkin J, Sinkler WSW.H. Freeman & Company
• Baum’s Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases. 
  Chapter: Radiation-induced lung disease 
  Faul JL, Raffin TAEditors: Crapo JD, Glassroth J, Karlinsky J, King TE.Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, New YorkEdition 7,
• Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology. 
  Chapter: Withholding and withdrawing treatment: The doctor-patient relationship and the changing goals of care 
  Shafazand S, Crawley L, Raffin TA, Koenig BEditors: Berger A, Portenoy R, Weissman D.Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia
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Abstracts/Posters

• Dose response relationship between PO2 and the lack of tolerance.
  Raffin TA, Braun D, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, WFCR
• Effects of hyperoxia on ultrastructure and superoxide dismutase activity in cultured Type II pneumocytes.
  Raffin TA, Douglas W, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, AFCR
• Impairment of phagocytosis produced by relatively low level O2 exposure (40%) in alveolar macrophages.
  Raffin TA, Braun D, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, AFCR
• Effect of hyperoxia on the rate of generation of superoxide anions in free solution and in a cellular (alveolar macrophage) system.
  Raffin TA, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Am Rev Respir Dis, ATS
• Lung cell injury by relatively low level (40%) O2 exposure.
  Raffin TA, Simon LM, Douglas WHJ, Theodore J, Robin ED, Chest, ACCP
• Effects of hypoxia on ultrastructure and superoxide dismutase activity in cultured Type II pneumocytes.
  Raffin TA, Douglas WHJ, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, WFCR
• Mechanism of altered replication by O2 in Type II pneumocytes.
  Theodore J, Robin ED, Simon LM, Raffin TA, Glick D, Douglas WHJ, Clin Res, WFCR
• Hypoxia protects LType II pneumocytes from paraquat toxicity.
  Raffin TA, Simon LM, Theodore J, Douglas WHJ, Robin ED, Clin Res, WFCR
• Bioenergetic alterations following relatively short-term hyperoxia in cultivated Type II pneumocytes.
  Simon LM, Raffin TA, Douglas WHJ, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, AFCR
• Cyclic nucleotides and inhibition of replication by O2 in Type II pneumocytes.
  Theodore J, Robin ED, Simon LM, Raffin TA, Glick D, Douglas WHJ, Hance AJ, Clin Res, ASCI
• Differences in oxygen mediated enzyme regulation between tumor (fibrosarcoma) and normal (fibroblast) cells.
  Simon LM, Robin ED, Raffin TA, Theodore J, Clin Res, AFCR
• The lack of effects of variable blood withdrawal rates on the measurement of mixed venous oxygen saturation.
  Mihm F, Feeley TW, Rosenthal M, Raffin TA, Anesth, ASA
• Hyperoxia impairs superoxide anion generation in phagocytosing macrophages.
  Raffin TA, Zimmerman W, Simon LM, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res
• Short-term hyperoxia and hypoxia impair superoxide anion generation in activated or phagocytosing macrophages.
  Raffin TA, Gansel JA, Theodore J, Robin ED, Clin Res, AFCR
• Clinical heart-lung transplantation.
  Reitz BA, Wallwork J, Pennock JL, Raffin TA, Stinson EB, Shumway NE, Chest, ACCP
• Nontuberculous mycobacteriosis in cardiac transplant recipients.
  Simpson GL, Raffin TA, Remington JS, Clin Res, WFCR
• Niacin reversal of oxygen toxicity in mouse alveolar macrophages (AM).
  Pearl RG, Raffin TA, Am Rev Respir Dis, ATS
• Reproducibility of thermodilution cardiac output measurements in clinical practice.
  Stevens JH, Raffin TA, Mihm FG, Rosenthal MH, Stetz CW, Anesth, ASA
• Gastric releasing peptide is a selective mitogen for small cell lung carcinoma in vitro.
  Weber S, Zuckerman JE, Bostwick DG, Bensch KG, Sikic BI, Raffin TA, Chest, ACCP
• Differential protective effects of varying degrees of hypoxia on the cytotoxicities of etoposide and bleomycin.
  Yamauchi T, Raffin TA, Weber S, Zuckerman JE, Yang P, Sikic BI, Chest, ACCP
• C5a antibodies prevent the adult respiratory distress syndrome in septic primates.
  Stevens JH, O'Hanley P, Walker C, Shapiro J, Mihm FG, Collins JA, Raffin TA Anti, Clin Res, AFCR
• Prostaglandin E1 does not prevent the adult respiratory distress syndrome in septic primates.
  Brockmann DC, Stevens JH, O'Hanley P, Walker C, Shapiro J, Mihm FG, Collins JA, Raffin TA, Chest, ACCP
• Effects of anti-C5a antibodies in complement levels of septic primates.
  Hangen, DH, Satoh PS, Stevens JH, O'Hanley P, Bloom RJ, Collins JA, Raffin TA, Clin Res
• Anti-C5a antibodies inhibit neutrophil chemotaxis.
  Hangen DH, Hall E, Stevens JH, O'Hanley P, Ishizaka A, Satoh PS, Raffin TA, Clin Res, AFCR
• Leukocyte migration in acutely septic primates with adult respiratory distress syndrome.
  Segall JM, Hangen DH, Hall EW, McDougall IR, Ishizaka A, Raffin TA, West Soc Nuc Med
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Lectures

• New Therapeutic Strategies in the Treatment of ARDS. 
  Society for Critical Care Medicine, Annual Meeting of Society for Critical Care Medicine, Washington
• Intensive Care Course. 
  American College of Physicians Annual Meeting, Meeting-the-Professor Sessions, San Francisco, CA
• Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support in Ventilated Patients. 
  Sequoia Hospital Conference on Care of the Ventilated Patient, Burlingame, CA
• Update on ARDS. 
  Multiple locations: 1988, 1990
• Update on ARDS and Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support. 
  American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada
• New Modes of Mechanical Ventilation. 
  UCSF Course on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, CA
• Respiratory Monitoring in the ICU. 
  American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
• Symposium on Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support. 
  American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans
• The Chronically Critically Ill: To Fight or Withdraw. 
  Regional Military Postgraduate Continuing Education Meeting, San Francisco, California
• Intensive Care Units and Withdrawing Life Support. 
  Stanford Alumni Course, Los Angeles, California
• Medical Ethics in the 21st Century. 
  Annenberg Health Sciences Center, Palm Springs, California
• Biomedical Ethics in Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support. 
  Annual Meeting of the American Medical Writers Association
• Update on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  1st National Pulmonary Fellows Symposium (1989); 3rd National Pulmonary Fellows Symposium (1991)
• Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support and How to Wean Patients from Mechanical Ventilators 
  Annual American College of Chest Physicians Meeting, San Francisco, California
• Management of Infectious Diseases. 
  Annual California Thoracic Society Course, Santa Barbara, California
• Advances in Understanding ARDS. 
  Annual American Thoracic Society Meeting
• Biomedical Ethics in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  California Society of Anesthesiology, Los Angeles, California
• Advances in the Management of ARDS. 
  Washington State Respiratory Therapy Society Annual Meeting; San Jose, California
• Management of Bronchial Asthma. 
  Annual California Thoracic Society Course Director and Moderator, Santa Barbara, California
• Update on Postoperative Management. 
  Annual California Medical Association Course, Anaheim, California
• Update on Biomedical Ethics. 
  Tucson Annual Pulmonary Course, Tucson, Arizona
• Update on Asthma. 
  Kansas City, Missouri
• Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support. 
  Multiple locations: 1985, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998
• Update on ARDS and Biomedical Ethics: The Right to Die. 
  Critical Care Medicine Course, Orlando, Florida
• Termination of Life Support in Patients. 
  Stanford University
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Other

• Internal Medicine Respiratory Emergencies: Status Asthmaticus. 
  Raffin TA
• Extraordinary life support and the right to die. 
  Raffin TA
• Arterial blood gas interpretation: A practical approach. 
  Raffin TA
• Management of the solitary pulmonary nodule. 
  Raffin TA
• Withholding and Withdrawing life support. 
  Raffin TA, Gilfix M, Lo B, Jonsen A, Pellegrino E
• The chronically critically ill: To fight or withdraw. 
  Raffin TA, Seminars in Resp Care
• Arterial Blood Gas Analysis. 
  Clark R, Raffin TA
  Stanford University
• Pulmonary Function Test. 
  Clark R, Raffin TA
  Stanford University
• Diagnosis and Management of ARDS. 
  Bone R, Raffin TA
  Pfizer, Inc.
• Invasive Vascular Lines: Placement and Interpretation. 
  Clark R, Raffin TA
  Stanford University
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