Chief Medical Officer, Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc.; Watermark Medical, Inc.; Ventus Medical, Inc
Pulmonology
Dr. Philip R. Westbrook, MD
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Philip Westbrook is an expert in the field of Pulmonology. He researched medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Stanford University School of Medicine has a rank of 2 in research and a 25 in primary care Philip Westbrook is a published doctor and has 27 publications published. The lastest was: 'Regression of nifedipine-induced gingival hyperplasia following switch to a same class calcium channel blocker, isradipine.'
Publications
- Automatic scoring of sleep stages and cortical arousals using two electrodes on the forehead: validation in healthy adults.
- Capability of a neck worn device to measure sleep/wake, airway position, and differentiate benign snoring from obstructive sleep apnea.
- Patients with positional versus nonpositional obstructive sleep apnea: a retrospective study of risk factors associated with apnea-hypopnea severity.
- Treatment outcomes of mandibular advancement devices in positional and nonpositional OSA patients.
- Assessment of the test-retest reliability of laboratory polysomnography.
- Validation of forehead venous pressure as a measure of respiratory effort for the diagnosis of sleep apnea.
- The impact of obstructive sleep apnea variability measured in-lab versus in-home on sample size calculations.
- Prevalence of probable obstructive sleep apnea risk and severity in a population of dental patients.
- Invited commentary from members on the draft proposal released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for modification of national coverage determination 240.4.
- In-home evaluation of efficacy and titration of a mandibular advancement device for obstructive sleep apnea.
- Survey regarding limited diagnostic systems for sleep apnea.
- Description and validation of the apnea risk evaluation system: a novel method to diagnose sleep apnea-hypopnea in the home.
- Regression of nifedipine-induced gingival hyperplasia following switch to a same class calcium channel blocker, isradipine.
- Ventilatory dynamics during transient arousal from NREM sleep: implications for respiratory control stability.
- Obstructive sleep apnea in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease.
- Estimation of dynamic chemoresponsiveness in wakefulness and non-rapid-eye-movement sleep.
- Assessment of accuracy and analysis time of a novel device to monitor sleep and breathing in the home.
- Effect of nasal continuous positive airway pressure on cardiac output and oxygen delivery in patients with congestive heart failure.
- Occlusion and narrowing of the pharyngeal airway in obstructive sleep apnea: evaluation by ultrafast spoiled GRASS MR imaging.
- Effects of alterations in pulmonary function and sleep variables on survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Sleep disorders and upper airway obstruction in adults.
- Fast-CT evaluation of the upper airway during wakefulness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in patients with class II malocclusion.
- Guidelines for the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT): a standard measure of sleepiness.
- Sleep and breathing disturbance secondary to nasal obstruction.
- Thymic cyst presenting as an acute mediastinal mass.
Schools
Stanford University
Doctors Specialties
- Pulmonology
- Sleep Medicine
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Education
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Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education -
Stanford University School of Medicine
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