Karlman Wasserman

Karlman Wasserman (12 March 1927 — 22 June 2020) was an American physiologist and professor.[1]

Wasserman was born in Brooklyn, New York.[1] His studies at Purdue University were cut short by service in the United States Army during the occupation of Japan. Upon returning to the United States, Wasserman abandoned his study in engineering, graduating from Upsala College with a degree in chemistry. He then attended the Tulane University School of Medicine while teaching at the university's Department of Physiology.[2]

Wasserman worked extensively on pulmonary physiology in humans. He was one of the first persons who used exercise testing for the interaction of cardiovascular, ventilatory and metabolic responses. He is the founder of the Wasserman 9-Panel Plot, named after himself. This Nine-Panel Plot is a standard layout for the graphical representation of data produced by a cardiopulmonary exercise test.[3] [4] He also described the "gear wheel model" used for explaining results obtained from the exercise test in humans. He described how to determine the “anaerobic threshold” by using ventilatory and cardiovascular gas exchange responses during exercise testing.

He was chief of the division of “Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine” at the UCLA Harbor Hospital Medical Center in Torrance, CA between 1967 and 1997. After 1997 he continued doing research and teaching at this location. He was Professor Emeritus on Recall at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has written over 300 peer-reviewed articles, 5 books, several book chapters and scientific reviews.[5][6]

He died in Rancho Palos Verdes, California on 22 June 2020, aged 93.[7]

References
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  2. Kisaka, Tomohiko; Dumitrescu, Daniel; Harry B., Rossiter; Sietsema, Kathy E. (June 2017). "Giants in Chest Medicine: Karlman Wasserman, MD, PhD, FCCP". Chest. 151 (6): 1209–1212. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2016.11.056. PMID 28599928.
  3. Agnew, Neil (2010-04-01). "Preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing". Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain. 10 (2): 33–37. doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkq001. ISSN 1743-1816.
  4. Sun, Xing-Guo (July 2015). "[The new 9 panels display of data from cardiopulmonary exercise test, emphasizing holistic integrative multi-systemic functions]". Zhongguo Ying Yong Sheng Li Xue Za Zhi = Zhongguo Yingyong Shenglixue Zazhi = Chinese Journal of Applied Physiology. 31 (4): 369–373. ISSN 1000-6834. PMID 26775513.
  5. "Karlman Wasserman - Chief, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Therapy in Torrance, California, United States of America | eMedEvents". www.emedevents.com.
  6. "Professor Karlman Wasserman". EBPOM. May 22, 2020.
  7. "Karlman Wasserman March 12, 1927 - June 22, 2020". June 24, 2020.
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