Dr David Tingay

contact details

Dr David Tingay
Group Leader
Neonatal Research
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Flemington Rd
Parkville Victoria 3052
Australia

T   +61 3 9345 4023
E   david.tingay@rch.org.au

biography

David Tingay graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide. He has trained in Neonatology and Paediatrics in the UK and Australia. In 2004 he joined the Neonatal unit of the Royal Children's Hospital as a Staff Specialist. He also currently a Staff Specialist in the Fetal Management Unit, Royal Women's Hospital and Honorary Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.

David was awarded a PhD in 2008 for his thesis on the optimal application of high frequency ventilation. Since then he has been a NHMRC funded researcher exploring methods of improving the application of mechanical ventilation for sick newborns and children. He is an internationally recognised expert in the physiology of the diseased neonatal lung, particularly the use of advanced modes of mechanical ventilation and imaging regional lung mechanics.

achievements

2011: Curosurf award for innovation in respiratory research at the 15th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand

2008: Perinatal Research Society Prize for best oral presentation at the 12th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand

2006: Jean-Marie Bertrand Award for best oral presentation at 8th European conference on paediatric and neonatal ventilation, Montreux, Switzerland

2006: Award for best paediatric presentation at 31st Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific meeting on Intensive Care

2005: Award for best paediatric presentation at 30th Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific meeting on Intensive Care

research focus & interest

His interests are in the respiratory management of infants needing intensive care. His primary research involves exploring and improving how clinicians treat newborn infants and children with severe respiratory failure requiring assisted mechanical ventilation (a ventilator or 'breathing machine'). His research focuses on better understanding the physiological response to mechanical ventilation, using complex feedback and imaging tools, to develop ventilation strategies that improve lung function and prevent long-term injury. This is being achieved through a program of basic science, translational and clinical trials at the MCRI, and in collaboration with research partners in Australia and Europe.

publications

1.    Bhatia R, Schmölzer GM, Davis PG, Tingay DG. Electrical impedance tomography can rapidly detect small pneumothoraces in surfactant-deplete piglets. Intensive Care Medicine 2011 DOI 10.1007/s00134-011-2421-z.

2.    Armstrong RK, Carlisle HR, Davis PG, Schibler A, Tingay DG. Distribution of tidal ventilation during volume-targeted ventilation is variable and influenced by age in the preterm lung. Intensive Care Med 2011; 37: 839-46.

3.    Dargaville PA, Copnell C, Mills JF, Haron I, Lee JKF, Tingay DG,  Rohana J, Mildenhall L, Jeng M-J, Narayanan A, Battin M, Kuschel C, Sadowsky J, Patel H, Kilburn C, Carlin JB, Morley CJ on behalf of the lessMAS trial study group. Randomised controlled trial of lung lavage with dilute surfactant for meconium aspiration syndrome.  J. Peds 2011; 158 (3): 383-389.

4.    Carlisle HR, Armstrong RK, Davis PG, Schibler A, Frerichs I, Tingay DG. Regional Distribution of Blood Volume within the Preterm Infant Thorax during Synchronised Mechanical Ventilation. Intensive Care Med. 2010; 36 (12): 2101-8.

5.    Tingay DG, Copnell B, Grant C, Dargaville Pa, Dunster K, Schibler A. The effect of endotracheal suction on regional tidal ventilation and end-expiratory lung volume. Intensive Care Med. 2010; 36 (5): 888-96.

6.    Pellicano A, Tingay DG, Mills JF, Fasulakis S, Morley CJ, Dargaville PA. Comparison of four methods of lung volume recruitment during high frequency oscillatory ventilation. Intensive Care Med. 2009 Nov;35(11):1990-8.

7.    Copnell B, Dargaville PA, Ryan EM, Kiraly NJ, Chin LO, Mills JF, Tingay DG. The Effect of Suction Method, Catheter Size and Suction Pressure on Lung Volume Changes During Endotracheal Suction in Piglets. Pediatr Res. 2009; 66 (4): 405-10.

8.    Kiraly NJ, Tingay DG, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Dargaville PA, Copnell B. The Effects of Closed Endotracheal Suction on Ventilation During Conventional and High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation. Pediatr Res. 2009; 64 (1): 29-33.

9.    Kiraly NJ, Tingay DG, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Copnell B. Negative tracheal pressure during neonatal endotracheal suction. Pediatr Res. 2008 Jul;64(1):29-33.

10.    Hoellering AB, Copnell B, Dargaville PA, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Tingay DG. Lung volume and cardiorespiratory changes during open and closed endotracheal suction in ventilated newborn infants. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2008 Nov;93(6):F436-41.

11.    Copnell B, Tingay DG, Kiraly NJ, Sourial M, Gordon MJ, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Dargaville PA. A comparison of the effectiveness of open and closed endotracheal suction. Intensive Care Med. 2007 Sep;33(9):1655-62.

12.    Tingay DG, Copnell B, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Dargaville PA. Effects of open endotracheal suction on lung volume in infants receiving HFOV. Intensive Care Med. 2007 Apr;33(4):689-93.

13.    Tingay DG, Mills JF, Morley CJ, Pellicano A, Dargaville PA. The deflation limb of the pressure-volume relationship in infants during high-frequency ventilation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Feb 15;173(4):414-20.

14.    Tingay DG, Stewart MJ, Morley CJ. Monitoring of end tidal carbon dioxide and transcutaneous carbon dioxide during neonatal transport. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2005 Nov;90(6):F523-6.

15.    Tingay DG, Tsimnadis P, Basnyat B. A blurred view from Everest. Lancet. 2003 Dec 13;362(9400):1978.