Pulmonary Updates for 2012

NEW PULMONARY UPDATES

ACCP 9th Edition Guidelines on Anticoagulation Therapy

Air travel for patients with lung disease (BTS guideline)

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

ARDS: mechanical ventilation update & review

ARDS: ECMO for ARDS review

Asthma: Bronchial thermoplasty for refractory asthma

Asthma: state of the art, gaps in current knowledge

Asthma, severe refractory treatment guideline (Guideline)

Bronchoscopy medications, guideline and recommendations

C. difficile colitis, infection, review

COPD, Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

COPD, Diagnosis & management of stable COPD (ATS guideline)

COPD, Bronchodilator reversibility in

COPD, Lung volume reduction surgery in

Diaphragmatic dysfunction (paralysis, weakness)

Early mobilization for mechanically ventilated patients

Early vs late tracheostomy meta-analysis, review

ECMO for severe ARDS

Exhaled nitric oxide applications (ATS guideline)

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, update & review

Interstitial lung disease: bronchoscopy’s role in diagnosis & management

Intracranial hemorrhage, update & review

Linezolid vs vancomycin meta-analysis

Lung volume reduction surgery

Mortality prediction tools review

Mechanical ventilation, sedation and analgesia in

Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction

Non-small cell lung cancer update, review

Pleural manometry during thoracentesis

Procalcitonin to guide antibiotic use

Pulmonary embolism during pregnancy: workup (ATS guideline)

Pulmonary embolism, clinical decision rules in

Pulmonary hypertension (severe) in the ICU, management of

Pulmonary nodules, workup in the new era

Roflumilast and cilomilast Cochrane review

Sedation and analgesia in mechanical ventilation

Smoking cessation update, review

Sepsis, using central venous oxygenation in

Steroids for severe sepsis and septic shock

Tobacco cessation update, review

Toxicology in the ICU

Thoracic ultrasound review, update

Thrombolytics for acute pulmonary embolism

Troponin elevations; cardiac & noncardiac causes