Professor, Medicine, Loyola University of Chi Stritch School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Franco Laghi, MD
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Franco Laghi practices Internal Medicine. Dr. Franco Laghi is a published MD. He published 62 publications, including: 'Does resistive loading decrease diaphragmatic contractility before task failure?' Franco Laghi accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Authors' response: Origin of the 24-h rest arm.
- A paper on the pace of recovery from diaphragmatic fatigue and its unexpected dividends.
- Diaphragmatic neuromechanical coupling and mechanisms of hypercapnia during inspiratory loading.
- Eating on noninvasive ventilation*.
- Preventing ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction with phrenic nerve stimulation.
- Contrasting breathing retraining and helium-oxygen during Pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: A randomized clinical trial.
- Life-threatening hypokalemia following rapid correction of respiratory Acidosis.
- Sexual Dysfunction in Men with COPD: Impact on Quality of Life and Survival.
- Effect of inspiratory time and flow settings during assist-control ventilation.
- Disorders of the Respiratory muscles.
- Effect of ventilation-feedback training on endurance and perceived breathlessness during constant work-rate leg-cycle exercise in patients with COPD.
- Effect of Lung volume reduction surgery on diaphragmatic neuromechanical coupling at 2 years.
- Respiratory and skeletal muscles in hypogonadal men with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Hypogonadism in men with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: prevalence and quality of life.
- Effect of closed unit policy and appointing an intensivist in a developing country.
- Weaning prediction: esophageal pressure monitoring complements readiness testing.
- Fluctuations in end-expiratory Lung volume during Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
- Assessment of Respiratory output in mechanically ventilated patients.
- Low testosterone in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: does it really matter?
- Potassium sorbate reduces gastric colonization in patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
- Sternomastoid, rib cage, and expiratory muscle activity during weaning Failure.
- Microstimulators and intramuscular hook electrodes for the stimulation of Respiratory muscles.
- Can ventilation-feedback training augment exercise tolerance in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
- Evaluation and initial management of acute kidney injury.
- NAVA: brain over machine?
- Weaning: can the computer help?
- Advancing femoral nerve stimulation into the stage of science.
- Role of the respiratory muscles in acute respiratory failure of COPD: lessons from weaning failure.
- An Official ATS/ERS/ESICM/SCCM/SRLF Statement: Prevention and Management of Acute Renal Failure in the ICU Patient: an international consensus conference in intensive ...
- Stimulating multiple Respiratory muscles with intramuscular Permaloc electrodes.
- Narrative review: ventilator-induced Respiratory muscle weakness.
- Contrasting pressure-support ventilation and helium-oxygen during exercise in severe COPD.
- Treating the septic muscle with electrical stimulations.
- Stratification of difficulty in weaning.
- Respiratory muscle pacing with Chronically implanted intramuscular Permaloc electrodes: A feasibility study.
- Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction: is there a dim light at the end of the tunnel?
- Relationship between depressive symptoms and hypogonadism in men with COPD.
- Curing the septic diaphragm with the ventilator.
- Unilateral expiratory airflow obstruction during forced exhalation.
- Is weaning Failure caused by low-frequency fatigue of the diaphragm?
- Can diaphragmatic contractility be assessed by twitch airway pressures in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
- Using physiologic end points to assess innovations in mechanical ventilation.
- Influence of ventilator settings in determining Respiratory frequency during mechanical ventilation.
- Partitioning of Lung and chest-wall mechanics before and after Lung-volume-reduction surgery.
- Effect of imposed inflation time on respiratory frequency and hyperinflation in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Does inhaled albuterol improve diaphragmatic contractility in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
- Does resistive loading decrease diaphragmatic contractility before task Failure?
- Effect of Lung volume reduction surgery on neuromechanical coupling of the diaphragm.
- Can diaphragmatic contractility be assessed by airway twitch pressure in mechanically ventilated patients?
- Respiratory muscle dysfunction in mechanically-ventilated patients.
- Patient-ventilator interaction.
- The voluntary drive to breathe is not decreased in hypercapnic patients with severe COPD.
- Comparison of magnetic and electrical phrenic nerve stimulation in assessment of diaphragmatic contractility.
- Pattern of recovery from diaphragmatic fatigue over 24 hours.
- Prospective evaluation of combined high-frequency ventilation in post-traumatic patients with adult Respiratory distress syndrome refractory to optimized conventional ...
- Common infections complicating Lung transplantation.
- Aspergillus and Lung transplantation.
- Relationship between transdiaphragmatic and mouth twitch pressures at functional residual capacity.
- Effects of oral albuterol on serum lipids and carbohydrate metabolism in healthy men.
- Endocrinological derangements in COPD.
- Respiratory index/Pulmonary shunt relationship: quantification of severity and prognosis in the post-traumatic adult respiratory distress syndrome.
Schools
Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
St Mary39s Hospital
College Of Chest Physicians
Loyola University Stritsch School Med
University MDShock Trauma
Procedures Preformed
- Bronchoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Ventilation Management
Conditions Treated
- Acidosis
- Alkalosis
- Asthma
- Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonology
- Sleep Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Loyola University -
University of Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Hospital
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Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1083691984 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LAGHI |
| First Name Of The Provider | FRANCO |
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