Original Research
- Implementing the 2005 American Heart Association Guidelines, Including Use of the Impedance Threshold Device, Improves Hospital Discharge Rate After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
- by Ken Thigpen—Jackson, Mississippi
Scott P Davis, Roberta Basol, Peggy Lange, Sanjeep S Jain, John D Olsen, Bernard R Erickson, Timothy N Schuchard—St Cloud, Minnesota
and Tom P Aufderheide—Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Repeatability of the 6-Minute Walk Test in Adolescents and Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
- by Bruna Ziegler, Paula Maria Eidt Rovedder, Claudine Lacerda Oliveira, Fernando de Abreu e Silva, and Paulo de Tarso Roth Dalcin—Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
25th Annual New Horizons Symposium:
Airway Management: Current Practice and Future Directions
Guest Editor: Ulrich H Schmidt MD PhD
- Emergency Airway Management
- by Vadym Gudzenko, Edward A Bittner, and Ulrich H Schmidt—Boston, Massachusetts
- The Video Revolution: A New View of Laryngoscopy
- by William E Hurford—Cincinnati, Ohio
- New Endotracheal Tubes Designed to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Do They Make a Difference?
- by Steven Deem and Miriam M Treggiari—Seattle, Washington
- Tracheostomy: Why, When, and How?
- by Charles G Durbin Jr—Charlottesville, Virginia
- When to Change a Tracheostomy Tube
- by Alexander C White—Stoughton, Massachusetts
Sucharita Kher—Boston, Massachusetts
and Heidi H O’Connor—Stoughton, Massachusetts
- Tracheostomy Decannulation
- by Heidi H O’Connor and Alexander C White—Stoughton, Massachusetts
- Tracheostomy: Pediatric Considerations
- by Ellen S Deutsch—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Case Reports
- Severe Respiratory and Skeletal Muscles Involvement in a Carrier of Dysferlinopathy With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- by Salvatore Fuschillo—Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy
Yvan Torrente—Milan, Italy
and Giovanni Balzano—Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy
- Mediastinal Teratoma With Pulmonary Involvement Presenting as Massive Hemoptysis in 2 Patients
- by Robert Fu-Chean Chen, Tzung-Hao Chang, Chi-Chu Chang, and Chun-Nin Lee—Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching Case of the Month
- Removal of an Aspirated Foreign Body With a Flexible Cryoprobe
- by Christian Schumann, Cornelia Kropf, Stefan Rüdiger, Thomas Wibmer,
Kathrin M Stoiber—Ulm, Germany
and Philipp M Lepper—Bern, Switzerland
Editorial
- Improving Survival From In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
- by Thomas A Barnes—Boston, Massachusetts
Letters
- Blowing the Pipes Clean Works!
- by Alex Doyle, Jack Hodd, and Peter Young—King’s Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom
author response by Mark S Siobal—San Francisco, California
- Abdominal Tuberculosis
- by Syed Ahmed Zaki—Sion, Mumbai, India
author response by Joanna M Tulczynska—Jamaica, New York
Books, Software, & Other Media
- Pulmonary Hypertension (Humbert M and Lynch JP III, editors)
- reviewed by David D Ralph—Seattle, Washington
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations. (Wedzicha JA and Martinez FJ, editors)
- reviewed by David J Pierson—Seattle, Washington
- Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management, 2nd edition (Barnes PJ, Drazen JM, Rennard SI, and Thomson NC, editors)
- reviewed by Timothy J Barreiro—Youngstown, Ohio
Continuing Education Examination
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