Abstract
For the busy clinician, educator, or manager, it is becoming an increasing challenge to filter the literature to what is relevant to one's practice and then update one's practice based on the current evidence. The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature related to long-term oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, airway management, acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory care education, and respiratory care management. These topics were chosen and reviewed in a manner that is most likely to have interest to the readers of Respiratory Care.
- acute lung injury
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- ARDS
- education
- endotracheal intubation
- long-term oxygen therapy
- management
- pulmonary rehabilitation
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC, Respiratory Care, Ellison 401, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston MA 02114. E-mail: dhess{at}partners.org.
Mr Dunne has disclosed relationships with Monaghan Medical and Dey Pharmaceuticals. Dr MacIntyre has disclosed relationships with CareFusion and Breathe Technologies. Dr Schmidt has disclosed no conflicts of interest. Mr Haas has disclosed no conflicts of interest. Dr Jones-Boggs Rye has disclosed no conflicts of interest. Mr Kauffman has disclosed relationships with Monaghan Medical, Vapotherm, and Massimo. Dr Hess has disclosed relationships with Philips Respironics, ResMed, Covidien, Pari, and Breathe Technologies.
A version of this paper was presented at the 57th International Respira tory Congress of the American Association for Respiratory Care, held November 5–8, 2011, in Tampa Bay, Florida.
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