Respiratory care : the official journal of the American Association for Respiratory Therapy

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August 1992
Volume Number37, 8
ISSN00989142-RECACP
MONTHLY SCIENCE JOURNALA
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Editorial: What Are You Doing With All
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Evaluation of MDI Spacers and
Adapters: Their Effect on the
Respirable Volume of Medication
Evaluation of the Ability of the Syncoxy
Breath-Synchronized Valve To Provide
Oxygen LevelsAdequate
Method for Delivery ofAn Alternative
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EDITORIALOFFICE August 1992
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KDITORIALS
EDITOR
855 More Clinical Practice Guidelines: Now What'.'
BrougherRRTPal —by Dean Hess unci Pal Brougher York. Pennsylvania, and Dallas. Texas
ADJUNCTEDITOR 857 On Mythology and Naked Emperors: What Are You Doing With All Those Numbers You're
Philip Kittredge RRT Writing Dovsn?
—by Tom Burns Phoenix. Arizona
EDITORIALCOORDINATOR
Donna Stephens BB.A
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
EDITORIALBOARD 862 An Evaluation ofMDI Spacers and Adapters: Their Effect on the Respirable Volume of
Neil R Maclntvre MD. Chairman Medication
Thomas A Barnes EdD RRT —by Jerry Eben. AlexamlerB Adams, and Beth Green-Eide St Paul. Minnesota
Richard Branson RRTD
Robert L Chatbum RRT 869 Evaluation of the Ability of the Syncoxy Breath-Synchronized Valve To Provide Adequate
CharlesG Durbin JrMD
Oxygen Levels
Thomas D East PhD
—Hess MEd RRT by Toru Sato. Naoto Okazaki, Noriki Saito. and Toshihisa Hasegawa Yonago. JapanDean
RobertM Kacmarek PhD RRT
877 An Alternative Method for Delivery of Ribavirin to Nonventilated Pediatric PatientsDavid J PiersonMD
James K SiollerMD —b\ John L Cefiiralt and Evan A Steinberg Lxts Angeles, California
CONSULTING EDITORS
GUIDELINES &STATEMENTS
Frank E Biondo BS RRT
882 Patient-Ventilator System ChecksHoward J Birenbaum MD
John G BurtordMD 887 Humidification during Mechanical Ventilation
Bob Demers BS RRT
891 Selection of Aerosol Delivery DeviceDouglas B Eden BS RRT
Donald R EllonMD
898 Nasotracheal Suctioning
Roben R Pluck Jr MS RRT
Ronald B George MD Provocation902 Bronchial
James HurstMDM
907 Evaluation Hypoxemia and/or DesaturationExercise Testing for of
CharlesG Inm PhD
MS JastremskiMD Sampling913 Arterial Blood Gas
Hugh SMathewson MD
918 Extended Care FacilityOxygen Therapy in the Home orMcPeck RRTMichael BS
Richard R Richard BS RRT
John ShigeokaMD BLOOD GASCORNER
R Bnan SmithMD
#40 Infantile Mitochondrial Disease925 Blood Gas Comer —LethalWander RCPT RRTJack
Ward —Jeffrey J MEd RRT by Mary P Martinasek and Dushan J Murtinusek Cincinnati Ohio
JOURNALASSOCLVTES
PFTCORNER
SlephenM AyresMD
#44929 PFT Comer —Problems with a Bronchial ChallengeReubenM ChemiackMD
—JosephM CiveltaMD by Jack Wangerand Charles G Inin Denver. Colorado
John B DownsMD
Donald F EeanMD
KITTREDGE'S CORNERGarelh B Clsh MS RRT
Georee Grecorv MD 933 How Ventilators Provide Temporary O: Enrichment: What Happens When You Press the
AkeGren\ik NJD
100% Suction Button?
H Frederick Helmholz JrMD
—John E HodgkinMD by Roben S Campbell and RichardD Branson Cincinnati. Ohio
William F MillerMD
Elian J Nelson RN RRT
HISTORICALNOTES
Thomas L Pettv MD
Alan K PierceMD 938 The Toxic Effect ofTobacco Vapor, with Report ofCases
Henning PontoppidanMD
A Reprintfrom J.AMA 100 YearsAgo
JohnW SeveringhausMD
Barry ShapiroA MD
BOOKS, FILMS, TAPES,&SOFTWAREREVIEWS
PRODUCTION STAFF 939 Diagnostic Bronchoscopy: A Teaching Manual. 6th ed. by Peter StradlingMD
Linda Barcus —reviewed by John W Shigeoka Salt luike City. Utah
Steve Bowden
Donna Knauf 939 Fiberoptic Airway Endoscopy in Anesthesia and Critical Care, by Andranik OvassapianMD
Jeannie Marchant —reviewed byJohn \VShigeoka Salt Lake City. Utah
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