Original Research
- Evaluation of Aerosol Generator Devices at 3 Locations in Humidified and Non-humidified Circuits During Adult Mechanical Ventilation
- by Arzu Ari, Hasan Areabi, and James B Fink—Atlanta, Georgia
- Influence of Nebulizer Type, Position, and Bias Flow on Aerosol Drug Delivery in Simulated Pediatric and Adult Lung Models During Mechanical Ventilation
- by Arzu Ari—Atlanta, Georgia
Orcin Telli Atalay—Denizli, Turkey
Robert Harwood, Meryl M Sheard, Essam A Aljamhan, and James B Fink—Atlanta, Georgia
- Improvement in Emergency Airway Equipment Transport
- by Susan R Wilcox, Edward Bittner, Edward George, Valerie Farias Buckley, and Ulrich H Schmidt—Boston, Massachusetts
- An Intervention to Improve Respiratory Therapists’ Comfort With End-of-Life Care
- by Katherine Brown-Saltzman—Los Angeles, California
Devesh Upadhya—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lyle Larner, and Neil S Wenger—Los Angeles, California
- The Short-Term Effects of Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing Treatments on Ventilation in Patients With Neuromuscular Disease
- by Claude Guérin, Bernard Vincent, Thierry Petitjean, Pierre Lecam, Christiane Luizet, Muriel Rabilloud, and Jean-Christophe Richard—Lyon, France
- Four-Year Calibration Stability of the EasyOne Portable Spirometer
- by Gwen S Skloot—New York, New York
Nicole T Edwards, and Paul L Enright—Morgantown, West Virginia
- Effects of Inspiratory Rise Time on Triggering Work Load During Pressure-Support Ventilation: A Lung Model Study
- by Shinya Murata, Kazuki Yokoyama, Yushi Sakamoto, Ken Yamashita, Jun Oto, Hideaki Imanaka, and Masaji Nishimura—Tokushima, Japan
- Adjuncts to Physical Training of Patients With Severe COPD: Oxygen or Noninvasive Ventilation?
- by Audrey Borghi-Silva, Renata Gonçalves Mendes, Andreza Cristina Toledo, Luciana Maria Malosá Sampaio, Tatiane Patrocínio da Silva, Luciana Noemi Kunikushita, Hugo Celso Dutra de Souza, Tânia F Salvini, and Dirceu Costa—São Paulo, Brazil
- Occupational Exposures and Obstructive Lung Disease: A Case-Control Study in Hairdressers
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by Nastran Hashemi—Fresno, California
Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, and Ashraf Nazari—Mashhad, Iran
Review
- Prevalence of Serious Bleeding Events and Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients Receiving Activated Protein C: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- by Ajmal Khan, Ritesh Agarwal, Ashutosh N Aggarwal, and Dheeraj Gupta—Chandigarh, India
36th Donald F Egan Scientific Memorial Lecture
- Air and Soul: The Science and Application of Aerosol Therapy
- by Bruce K Rubin—Richmond, Virginia
25th Philip Kittredge Memorial Lecture
- Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Knowledge Translation in the Intensive Care Unit
- by Dale M Needham—Baltimore, Maryland
Case Reports
- Solitary Primary Tracheal Small-Cell Lung Cancer Causing Acute Respiratory Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment
- by Chou-Chin Lan, Mei-Chen Yang, Chih-Hsin Lee, Shiu-Feng Huang, and Yao-Kuang Wu—Hualien, Taiwan
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A 65-Year-Old Man With an Endobronchial Gossypiboma After Lobectomy
for Abscessing Pneumonia — with video supplement
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by Michael Kreuter, Ralf Eberhardt, Matthias Wiebel, Martin R Schulz—Heidelberg, Germany
Klaus-Michael Mueller—Bochum, Germany
and Felix JF Herth—Heidelberg, Germany
Teaching Case of the Month
- A Case of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Caused by Capsule-deficient Cryptococcus neoformans in an Immunocompetent Patient
- by Alpeshkumar V Bavishi and Terence M McGarry—Elmhurst, New York
Editorials
- Clearing the Mist From Our Eyes: Bronchodilators, Mechanical Ventilation, New Devices, Locations, and What You Should Know About Bias Flow
- by Robert M DiBlasi—Seattle, Washington
- The Defenseless Tracheal Conduit: Can a Team Work Together to Improve Airway Protection?
- by William R Howard—Boston, Massachusetts
- Finding Comfort in End-of-Life Care
- by David C Willms—San Diego, California
Letters
- Is Humidification Always Necessary During Noninvasive Ventilation in the Hospital?
- by Davide Chiumello—Milano, Italy
Books, Software, & Other Media
- Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease, 2nd edition. (Chung KF and Barnes PJ, editors) Lung Biology in Health and Disease series (Lenfant C, executive editor) Volume 234
- reviewed by Douglas S Gardenhire—Atlanta, Georgia
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Clinical Chest Ultrasound: From the ICU to the Bronchoscopy Suite.
(Bolliger CT, Herth FJF, Mayo PH, Miyazawa T, and Beamis JF, editors)
Progress in Respiratory Research series (Bolliger CT, series editor) Volume 37 - reviewed by Gerard A Silvestri—Charleston, South Carolina
- Chemistry and Physics for Nurse Anesthesia: A Student Centered Approach (Shubert D and Leyba J)
- reviewed by Jeffrey J Pasternak, Christopher K Dietz, and Jeffrey J Ward—Rochester, Minnesota
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