Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 6 - Number: 51 - April 15, 2006

Outstanding

Transtracheal High-Flow Insufflation Supports Spontaneous Respiration in Chronic Respiratory Failure

Use of Intraoperative Epiaortic Ultrasonography To Delineate Aortic Atheroma

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia and Respiratory Bronchiolitis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

Cytomegalovirus Infection in Critically Ill Patients: Associated Factors and Consequences

clinical investigations in critical care

Is Chest Radiography Necessary After Uncomplicated Insertion of a Triple-Lumen Catheter in the Right Internal Jugular Vein, Using the Anterior Approach?

Usefulness of Ultrasonography in Predicting Pleural Effusions > 500 mL in Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation

Cytomegalovirus Infection in Critically Ill Patients: Associated Factors and Consequences

Inclusion Criteria for Clinical Trials in Sepsis: Did the American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference Definitions of Sepsis Have an Impact?

Clinical Significance of Increased Lipase Levels on Admission to the ICU

clinical investigations INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia and Respiratory Bronchiolitis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

clinical investigations NERVES AND MUSCLE

Assessment of Airway Caliber and Bronchodilator Responsiveness in Subjects With Spinal Cord Injury

COPD

Transtracheal High-Flow Insufflation Supports Spontaneous Respiration in Chronic Respiratory Failure

Critical care reviews

Anemia, Allogenic Blood Transfusion, and Immunomodulation in the Critically Ill

ethics in cardiopulmonary medicine

Association of Depression and Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences in Patients With COPD

Infection

Multicenter Study of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Non-ICU Patients

Lung transplants

Psychosocial Situation and Physical Health in 50 Patients > 1 Year After Lung Transplantation

Opinion/hyphotesis

Hemodynamic Monitoring Utilizing Transesophageal Echocardiography: The Relationships Among Pressure, Flow, and Function

pulmonary and critical care pearls

A 41-Year-Old Man With Altered Mental Status and Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Roentgenogram of the month

The Air Crescent Sign: A Clue to the Etiology of Chronic Necrotizing Pneumonia

Selected Report

Severe Refractory Hypoxemia Following a Gunshot Injury

Identification and Treatment of Bronchoconstriction Induced by a Vagus Nerve Stimulator Employed for Management of Seizure Disorder

Sleep and Breathing

Accuracy of Monitoring for Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in the Coronary Care Unit

The French Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome Registry: General Data, Phenotype, and Genotype

Surgery

Use of Intraoperative Epiaortic Ultrasonography To Delineate Aortic Atheroma