James Leatherman

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, United States of America

James Leatherman is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota and Director of Medical Intensive Care, and of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training at Hennepin County Medical Center.

His clinical interests include critical care medicine, mechanical ventilation and pulmonary medicine including asthma, COPD, and interstitial lung disease. His research interests range fromventilation in  asthma to neuromuscular complications in intensive care and hemodynamic monitoring in intensive care.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine > Respiratory Problems in Critical Care (since 14 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 6.6
  Reversibility of lung collapse and hypoxemia in early acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Recommended by Niall Ferguson, Harald Groeben, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, James Leatherman
  
• 3.0
  Effect of sedation with dexmedetomidine vs lorazepam on acute brain dysfunction in mechanically ventilated patients: the MENDS randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by James Leatherman
  
• 3.2
  Prone positioning unloads the right ventricle in severe ARDS.
  Recommended by James Leatherman, Salvatore M Maggiore with Dr Sara Pitoni
  
• 3.0
  How can the response to volume expansion in patients with spontaneous respiratory movements be predicted?
  Recommended by James Leatherman
  
• 3.2
  Mixed venous oxygen saturation cannot be estimated by central venous oxygen saturation in septic shock.
  Recommended by James Leatherman, Jayne Fawcett
  
• 3.0
  Passive leg raising predicts fluid responsiveness in the critically ill.
  Recommended by James Leatherman