Tobias Kummer, M.D.

  1. Emergency Medicine Physician
  1. Kamphausen A, Tarasova N, Bardwell A, Laack TA, Shiue LT, Kummer T. Does needle positioning with magnetic field induction improve central venous catheterization performance by novice learners? J Vasc Access. 2024 Nov; 25 (6):1877-1884 Epub 2023 Aug 07
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  2. Kummer T, Shiue LT, Fiterman Molinari D, Haefke B, Klinkner DB. The contrast-enhanced FAST exam in pediatric and adult thoracoabdominal trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 Sep 1; 97 (3):e32-e37 Epub 2024 May 20
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  3. Mirsch D, Jelic T, Prats MI, Dreyfuss A, Yates E, Kummer T, Stenberg B, Vlasica K, Nagdev A. Just the facts: brachial plexus blocks for upper extremity injuries in the emergency department. CJEM 2024 Apr; 26 (4):228-231 Epub 2023 Dec 07
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  4. Kummer T, Mohn KJ, Bardwell AJ, Boyum JH. Evaluation of Soft-Tissue Hematomas With Real-Time, Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: A Pilot Study With Preliminary Findings. Ultrasound Q. 2023 Sep 1; 39 (3):179-185 Epub 2023 Sept 01
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  5. Henningsen C, Sayeed Y, Bagley J, Fields C, Marroquin J, Quevedo M, Robinson K, Roll S, Wolfman D, Kummer Tobias. AIUM Practice Principles for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorder J Ultrasound Med. 2023; 9999:1-19. Epub 2022 Oct 25.
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  6. Wood JN, Krippendorf BS, Blakeney CA, Kummer T, Hooke AW, Mullan AF, Sztajnkrycer MD. Precise Limb Tourniquet Arterial Occlusion Pressure Determination using Real-Time Ultrasonography and a Capacitive-Based Force Sensor. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2022 Dec; 37 (6):772-777 Epub 2022 Oct 18
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  7. Smith WT, Midgley S, Kummer T. Real-time Ultrasound-Guided Manual Testicular Detorsion: A Case Report. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2022 Aug; 6 (3):248-251
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  8. Ezzeddine FM, Haq IU, Pessanha BS, Pislaru SV, Bois MC, Kummer T, Stanich JA. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis of a Giant Left Atrial Mass. CASE (Phila). 2022 Aug; 6(6):243-246. Epub 2022 Aug 15.
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  9. McGuire SS, Thaden JJ, Goyal DG, Kummer T. Cardiac Tamponade Caused by Gastrointestinal Obstruction-A Rare Complication in Esophagectomy Patients. CASE (Phila). 2022 Jun; 6 (4):173-177 Epub 2022 Feb 28
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  10. Kummer T, Maldonado G, Reichard R. Intraosseus administration of an ultrasound contrast agent in a case of pediatric blunt abdominal trauma Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. 2022.
  11. Smoot WA, Hopp SL, Barzee BM, Bardwell AJ, Kummer T. Ultrasound-Guided Great Saphenous Vein Access: Revisiting an Old Friend in a New Location. J Emerg Med. 2022 Feb; 62 (2):191-199 Epub 2022 Jan 05
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  12. Kummer T, Nagdev A. "Swirling right ventricular" sign as a marker of right ventricular dysfunction in two patients with submassive pulmonary embolism. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Aug; 46:107-108 Epub 2021 Mar 12
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  13. Kummer T, Mohn K, Boyum J. Utility of Real-Time Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Soft Tissue Hematomas J Ultrasound Med. 2021; 40(S1):21.
  14. Jeeji AK, Ekstein SF, Ifelayo OI, Oyemade KA, Tawfic SS, Hyde RJ, Laughlin MJ Jr, Lohse CM, Mullan AF, Kummer T, Bellamkonda VR. Increased body mass index is associated with decreased imaging quality of point-of-care abdominal aortic ultrasonography. J Clin Ultrasound. 2021 May; 49(4):328-333. Epub 2020 Sep 27.
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  15. Jones DD, Kummer T, Schoen JC. Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy with an Intrauterine Device: Case Report and Sonographic Considerations. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2020 Nov; 4 (4):559-563
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  16. Ifelayo OI, Oyemade KA, Tawfic SS, Jeeji AK, Ekstein SF, Smoot WA, Voelkel JE, Laughlin MJ Jr, Lohse CM, Kummer T, Bellamkonda VR. Increased body mass index does not impact the imaging quality of focused assessment with sonography in trauma. J Clin Ultrasound. 2020 Oct; 48 (8):452-456 Epub 2020 June 18
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  17. Ellis J, Morrow MM, Belau A, Sztajnkrycer LS, Wood JN, Kummer T, Sztajnkrycer MD. The Efficacy of Novel Commercial Tourniquet Designs for Extremity Hemorrhage Control: Implications for Spontaneous Responder Every Day Carry. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2020 Jun; 35 (3):276-280 Epub 2020 Apr 13
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  18. Tran T, Lund SB, Nichols MD, Kummer T. Effect of two tourniquet techniques on peripheral intravenous cannulation success: A randomized controlled trial. Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Dec; 37 (12):2209-2214 Epub 2019 Mar 23
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  19. Bellew SD, Johnson KL, Nichols MD, Kummer T. Effect of Intranasal Vasoconstrictors on Blood Pressure: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. J Emerg Med. 2018 Oct; 55 (4):455-464 Epub 2018 Sept 06
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  20. Kummer T, Oh L, Phelan MB, Huang RD, Nomura JT, Adhikari S. Emergency and critical care applications for contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Jul; 36 (7):1287-1294 Epub 2018 Apr 22
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  21. Bjork LB, Bellew SD, Kummer T. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 May; 33 (5):367-369
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  22. Kummer T, Hartman TM, White JL. Diagnosis of an actively bleeding rectus sheath hematoma by Contrast- Enhanced ultrasound. Med Ultrason 2017 Apr 22; 19 (2):239-240
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  23. Shewmaker DM, Guderjahn O, Kummer T. Identification of Peroneal Tenosynovitis by Point-of-Care Ultrasonography. J Emerg Med. 2016 Feb; 50 (2):e79-81 Epub 2015 Oct 01
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  24. Liebmann O, Kummer T. Emergency Ultrasound: Point-of-care Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine. R I Med J (2013). 2015 Jun 01; 98: (6)18-22.
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  25. Bellew SD, Kummer T. Images in emergency medicine. Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis. Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Feb; 65 (2):146, 161
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  26. Ruskis J, Kummer T. Diagnosis of metacarpal fracture with equivocal x-ray by point-of-care ultrasound: a case report. Am J Emerg Med. 2014 Jul; 32: (7)821.e1-3.
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  27. Rohrig S, Seibel A, Zechner PM, Steigerwald M, Kummer T, Groesdonk HV, Armbruster W, Breitkreutz R. [Thoracoabdominal sonography (E-FAST plus) -AI training module 5 in anaesthesiologist: performed focussed sonography]. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2011 Nov; 46(11-12):772-81. Epub 2011 Dec 09.
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  28. Hohlweg-Majert B, Metzger MC, Kummer T, Schulze D. Morphometric analysis - Cone beam computed tomography to predict bone quality and quantity. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2011 Jul; 39(5):330-4. Epub 2010 Oct 27.
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  29. Schilling AF, Kummer T, Marshall RP, Bauerochse A, Jopp E, Pueschel K, Amling M. Brief communication: Two and three-dimensional analysis of bone mass and microstructure in a bog body from the Iron Age. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008 Apr; 135(4):479-83.
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  30. Schilling AF, Kummer T, Amling M. Non-destructive osteological analysis of skeletal microstructure on the bog body Moora. Materialhefte zur Ur- and Fruhgeschichte Niedersachsens. 2008; 37:89-94.
  31. Schilling AF, Kummer T, Amling M, Pueschel K. Osteological Virtopsy of a Bog Body From the Iron Age (ca. 650 BC). Rechtsmedizin. 2007; 17:223-224.
  32. Puschel K, Jopp E, Adam G, Amling M, Schilling AF, Kummer T, Handels H, Farber M, Saring D, Rother UJ, Fuhrmann AW, Hassmann H, Metzler A, Bauerochse A. Radiological Analysis of the Uchter Bog Girl-preliminary results from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Berichte Zur Denkmalpflege in Niedersachsen. 2007; 2:34-37.
  33. Stork A, Kemper J, Priemel M, Kummer T, Begemann PG, Habermann CR, Amling M, Adam G. [Evaluation of experimental cartilage lesions with ultrahigh-resolution multi-slice-CT in comparison to histology]. Rofo. 2004 May; 176(5):746-51.
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