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

American Association For Inhalation Therapy

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• Respiratory therapy

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• Langue: English
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December 1993
Volume Number38, 12
RE/PIRATORy
A MONTHLY SCIENCE JOURNAL
38TH YEAR—ESTABLISHED 1956
Editorials
Call for Combined Drug Therapy in Asthma
1994 Open Forum Abstracts A Question of Ethics: Funding of Continuing
Education
Effects of PEEP on Oxygenation and
Lung Water afterWood Smoke
Inhalation
Microbial Colonization of the Trachea
and Septicemia in Mechanically
Ventilated Neonates
Antimuscarinic -Adrenoceptorand B2
Bronchodilators in Obstructive Airways
Disease: A Review
ACCP Consensus Statement on
Mechanical Ventilation
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EDITOR EDITORIALS
Pat Brougher BA RRT
in Asthma1340 Combined Drug Therapy
ASSOCIATE EDITOR —Mathewson Kansas City, Kansasby Hugh S
Kaye Weber MS RRT
1341 A Question of Ethics: Funding of Continuing Education
ASSISTANT EDITOR —bx Robert Czachowski Dallas, TexasStephens BBADonna
EDITORIALBOARD
ORIGINAL STUDIES
Dean Hess MEd" RRT. Chairman
Thomas A Barnes EdD RRT
1346 Acute Pathophysiology afterWood Smoke Inhalation in a Dog Model:
Richard D Branson RRT
Robert L Chatburn RRT
Effects ofPEEP on Oxygenation and Lung Water
MDCharles G Durbin Jr —
Thomas D East PhD by William R Clark, Gary F Nieman, and Tawfic S Hakim Syracuse,
RobertM Kacmarek PhD RRT
New YorkNeil R MaclntyreMD
David J Pierson MD
James K StollerMD 1355 Factors Affecting Microbial Colonization of the Trachea and Septicemia
CONSULTING EDITORS in Mechanically Ventilated Neonates
Frank E Biondo BS RRT by Leandro Cordero, Kim Davis, Scott Morehead, and Leona W
Howard J Birenbaum MD —John G Burford MD Avers Columbus, Ohio
Bob Demers BS RRT
Donald R EltonMD
Robert R Fluck JrMS RRT REVIEWS,OVERVIEWS,& UPDATES
Ronald B GeorgeMD
JamesM Hurst MD -Antimuscarinic and Adrenoceptor Bronchodilators in Obstructive1364 fi2
Charles G Irvin PhD
MS JastremskiMD DiseaseAirways
Hugh S MathewsonMD —Cynthia L Howder Seattle, WashingtonMichael McPeck BS RRT by
Richard R Richard BS RRT
John Shigeoka MD
R Brian SmithMD GUIDELINES & STATEMENTS
Jack WangerMBA RPFT RRT
Ward MEd RRTJeffrey J Ventilation
1389 ACCP Consensus Statement on Mechanical
JOURNAL ASSOCIATES published concurrently in Chest (1993;104:1833-1859)
StephenM AyresMD
Reuben M Cherniack MD
JosephM CivettaMD TESTYOUR RADIOLOGIC SKILL
John DownsMDB
1423 Radiographic Findings in a Blunt Trauma PatientDonald F Egan MD
Gareth B Gish MS RRT —by Grace Nadell and FrederickW Clevenger Albuquerque, New
George Gregory MD
Ake GrenvikMD Mexico
JrMDH Frederick Helmholz
John E Hodgkin MD
William F MillerMD
CLASSIC REPRINTS
Elian J Nelson RN RRT
Thomas L Petty MD
1418 RETROSPECTROSCOPE REDUX: Inflation—1904 Model
Alan K Pierce MD
Henning PontoppidanMD JuliusH Comroe Jr (reprinted, with permission,from the Americanby
JohnW SeveringhausMD
Barry A ShapiroMD Review Respiratory Disease 1975;112:713-716)of
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