Contents
November 2004 / Volume 49 / Number 11
Editorials
- Consumer-Directed Health Care: Are Consumers Ready?
- by Patrick J Dunne—Fullerton, California
- Expanding Opportunities for Handheld Technology Use in Respiratory Careers Ready?
- by Teresa A Volsko—Hudson, Ohio
Original Studies
- Impact of a Program to Provide Patients With Comparative Information About Providers of Durable Medical Equipment for Home Respiratory Care
- by Edward R Hoisington, Dale A Miller, Cheryl A Adams, Kevin McCarthy, and James K Stoller—Cleveland, Ohio
- Are Blood Gases Necessary in Mechanically Ventilated Patients Who Have Successfully Completed a Spontaneous Breathing Trial?
- by Shawn R Pawson and Jack L DePriest—Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- The Effect of Body Mass Index on Outcomes of Patients Receiving Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure
- by Deborah A Hutter, Bart K Holland, and Hormoz Ashtyani—Hackensack, New Jersey
- Determinants of Dynamic Hyperinflation in a Bench Model
- by Natalya Y Thorevska and Constantine A Manthous—Bridgeport, Connecticut
Case Reports
- Pulmonary Hyperinflation and Respiratory Distress Following Solvent Aspiration in a Patient With Asthma: Expectoration of Bronchial Casts and Clinical Improvement With High-Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation
- by Toshihiko Koga, Taketoshi Kawazu, Kazuo Iwashita, and Ritsuko Yahata—Tokyo, Japan
Special Articles
- Respiratory Care Billing Using a Personal Digital Assistant
- by William R Howard—Boston, Massachusetts
Teaching Case of the Month
- Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma Masquerading as Pneumonia
- by William H Thompson—Boise, Idaho
Letters
- Transtracheal Oxygen: Not Exactly a “Novel” Technology
- by John R Goodman—Englewood, Colorado
with response by John W Shigeoka—Salt Lake City, Utah
Books, Films, Tapes, & Software
- Fundamentals of Airway Management Techniques: A Color Atlas
(Patil VU) - reviewed by Robert R Fluck Jr—Syracuse, New York
- Pleural Disease
(Bouros D, editor) - reviewed by John T Huggins—Charleston, South Carolina
- Bove and Davis’ Diving Medicine, 4th edition
(Bove AA) - reviewed by Michael S Koehle—Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- AccessMedicine.com
- reviewed by Bruce L Davidson—Seattle, Washington
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