Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 9 - Number: 89 - June 15, 2009

Outstanding

Contemporary Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD

Pneumococcal Vaccination for Patients With COPD*

Ventilator Advisory System Employing Load and Tolerance Strategy Recommends Appropriate Pressure Support Ventilation Settings*

Family Member Satisfaction With End-of-Life Decision Making in the ICU*

Critical care medicine

Ventilator Advisory System Employing Load and Tolerance Strategy Recommends Appropriate Pressure Support Ventilation Settings*

Family Member Satisfaction With End-of-Life Decision Making in the ICU*

Predictors and Early and Late Outcomes of Respiratory Failure in Contemporary Cardiac Surgery*

Inhalation injury

Systemic Inflammation Caused by White Smoke Inhalation in a Combat Exercise*

Lung cancer

Prognostic Significance of the Non–Size-Based AJCC T2 Descriptors*

Lung sounds

Effect of Body Position on Lung Sounds in Healthy Young Men*

Medical ethics

Meeting Physicians’ Responsibilities in Providing End-of-Life Care*

Noninvasive imaging

Monitoring Recovery From Diaphragm Paralysis With Ultrasound

Pulmonary and critical care pearls

A 64-Year-Old Man With Joint Swelling and an Abnormal Chest Radiograph

A 27-Year-Old Woman With a Swollen Uvula, Chest Pain, and Elevated Creatinine Phosphokinase Levels*

Recent advances in chest medicine

Medication and Dosage Considerations in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of High-Altitude Illness*

Review of sleep medicine

Obstructive Sleep Apnea*

Selected reports

A Case of Precocious Emphysema and Lung Cancer in a Woman With a History of Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis

Dramatic Functional Improvement Following Bariatric Surgery in a Patient With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Morbid Obesity*

Sleep medicine

Automatic Titration and Calculation by Predictive Equations for the Determination of Therapeutic Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Obstructive Sleep Apnea*

Donepezil Improves Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Alzheimer Disease*

Case-Control Study of Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome in Obese and Nonobese Chinese Children*

Prognosis of Patients With Heart Failure and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treated With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure*

Special features

Contemporary Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD

Pneumococcal Vaccination for Patients With COPD*