RESPIRATORY CARE

Original Research

Preliminary Evaluation of a New Index to Predict the Outcome of a Spontaneous Breathing Trial

by Stéphane Delisle, Martin Francoeur, Martin Albert—Montréal, Québec, Canada
Paul Ouellet—Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
Patrick Bellemare—Montréal, Québec, Canada
and Pierre Arsenault—Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Bench Study of a New Device to Display and Maintain Stable Artificial Airway Cuff Pressure

by William R Howard—Boston, Massachusetts

Religious and Spiritual Coping and Quality of Life Among Patients With Emphysema in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial

by Marquisha R Green, Charles F Emery—Columbus, Ohio
Elizabeth Kozora—Denver, Colorado
Philip T Diaz—Columbus, Ohio
and Barry J Make—Denver, Colorado

Volume-Targeted Versus Pressure-Targeted Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Chest-Wall Deformity: A Pilot Study

bby Fransien M Struik, Marieke L Duiverman, Petra M Meijer, Jellie A Nieuwenhuis, Huib AM Kerstjens, and Peter J Wijkstra—Groningen, The Netherlands

Aerosol Delivery and Humidification With the Boussignac Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Device

by Arnaud W Thille—Créteil, France
Jean-François Bertholon, Marie-Hélène Becquemin, Monique Roy—Paris, France
Aissam Lyazidi, François Lellouche, Esther Pertusini, Georges Boussignac,
Bernard Maître, and Laurent Brochard—Créteil, France

Chair-Sitting Exercise Intervention Does Not Improve Respiratory Muscle Function in Mechanically Ventilated Intensive Care Unit Patients

by Mei-Yu Chang, Li-Yin Chang, Yi-Chia Huang,
Kuei-Man Lin, and Chien-Hsiang Cheng—Taichung, Taiwan

26th Annual New Horizons Symposium: ARDS Update

What is the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome?

by Jesús Villar—Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Acute Lung Injury: Prevention May Be the Best Medicine

by John M Litell—Rochester, Minnesota
Michelle Ng Gong—Bronx, New York
Daniel Talmor—Boston, Massachusetts
and Ognjen Gajic—Rochester, Minnesota

Approaches to Conventional Mechanical Ventilation of the Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

by Dean R Hess—Boston, Massachusetts

Approaches to Refractory Hypoxemia in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Current Understanding, Evidence, and Debate

by Stephen R Collins and Randal S Blank—Charlottesville, Virginia

Noninvasive Ventilation for Patients With Acute Lung Injury or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

by Stefano Nava—Bologna, Italy
Ania Schreiber—Pavia, Italy
and Guido Domenighetti—Locarno, Switzerland

Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

by Ira M Cheifetz—Durham, North Carolina

AARC Clinical Practice Guideline

Incentive Spirometry: 2011

by Ruben D Restrepo, Richard Wettstein, Leo Wittnebel—San Antonio, Texas
and Michael Tracy—Cleveland, Ohio

Case Reports

Rhodococcus equi Infection After Lung Transplantation

by Don Hayes Jr, Enrique Diaz-Guzman, and Charles W Hoopes—Lexington, Kentucky

Relationship Between Diffuse Pulmonary Fibrosis, Alveolar Proteinosis, and Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor Autoantibodies

bby Maurizio Luisetti—Pavia, Italy
Pierdonato Bruno—Rome, Italy
Zamir Kadija—Pavia, Italy
Takuji Suzuki—Cincinnati, Ohio
Salvatore Raffa, Maria Rosaria Torrisi—Rome, Italy
Ilaria Campo, Francesca Mariani, Ernesto Pozzi—Pavia, Italy
Bruce C Trapnell—Cincinnati, Ohio
and Salvatore Mariotta—Rome, Italy

Sildenafil to Facilitate Weaning From Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Mechanical Ventilation in a Patient With Severe Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension and a Patent Foramen Ovale

by Shlomo Elias, Sigal Sviri, Efrat Orenbuch-Harroch,
Yakov Fellig, Arie Ben-Yehuda,
Zvi G Fridlender, Dan Gilon, and Abed Bayya—Jerusalem, Israel

Teaching Cases of the Month

Non-surgical Management of Giant Lung Bullae During Mechanical Ventilationn

by Sheng-Yuan Ruan—Taipei, Taiwan
Chun-Ta Huang, Jung-Yien Chien, Yao-Wen Kuo—Yun-Lin, Taiwan
and Chong-Jen Yu—Taipei, Taiwan

Diagnosis of Idiopathic Tracheal Stenosis and Treatment With Papillotome Electrocautery and Balloon Bronchoplasty

by William R Solly, Richard J O’Connell—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hans J Lee—Richmond, Virginia
Daniel H Sterman, and Andrew R Haas—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Editorials

Getting to the CORE of Weaning?

by Curtis N Sessler and Catherine E Grossman—Richmond, Virginia

Some Comments On the Cuff

by William E Hurford—Cincinnati, Ohio

Do Religion and Spirituality Influence Coping in End-Stage Emphysema Patients?

by Gail S Drescher—Washington, D.C.

Letters

The Stewart Approach for Analysis of Acid-Base Disturbances in Patients With Chronic Respiratory Failure

by Jihad Mallat and Didier Thevenin—Lens, France
author response by Claude Guérin—Lyon, France