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Best of CHEST 2008

October 25 - 30, 2008
Philadelphia, PA

 

Popular sessions:
 Literature review summaries
 Honor lecture summaries
 The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
 Overcoming Health Disparities: The Philadelphia Experience
 
 

Summaries and annotated bibliographies from select sessions:
Monday
 Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy
 Health-care Disparities and Factors That Influence Health
 Hemodynamic Monitoring in the ICU by Echocardiography
 Managing Aspirin Hypersensitivity in Severe Asthma
 Update on Fungal Diseases 2008
 Disaster Preparedness and Training in the ICU: How To Prepare
 Methods for Withdrawing Mechanical Ventilation: One Size Does Not Fit All
 Polysomnographic Puzzlers
 ACCP Literature Review: Interstitial Lung Disease and Pulmonary Vascular Disease
 Complex Sleep Apnea Recognition and Management
 Difficult-to-Treat Chronic Cough
 
Tuesday
 Cardiovascular Technologies in Critical Care
 Decision-Making About Life Support for Elderly, Critically Ill Patients
 Ongoing Clinical Trials in Critical Care Sepsis, Mechanical Ventilation, and ICU Infections
 Venous Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Vascular Complications in Pregnancy
 Noninfectious Pulmonary Complications of HIV Disease
 Percutaneous Tracheostomy
 The Physical, Emotional, and Financial Challenges of Caregiving
 Clinical Approaches to Hypoxia Mountain Illness and Airline Travel
 Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease NetWork
 Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS
 Practical Approach to Central Airway Obstruction A Multidisciplinary, Interactive Discussion
 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease
 Remote Critical Care
 World Trade Center Cough
 Canadian Thoracic Society: Early Diagnosis and Intervention
 Canadian Thoracic Society: Exploring the Frontiers
 American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Statement on the Respiratory and Related Management of Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Undergoing Anesthesia or Sedation
 Health and Science Policy: Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, 8th Edition—VTE Prevention and Treatment Resolving the Controversies
 Pleural Effusion: What New Tools Are Available To Find the Etiology?
 Research Ethics and Oversight
 Update on Drug-Resistant TB
 What Happens When We Don't Sleep Well? A Physiologic Perspective
 
Wednesday
 Cardiovascular Technologies in Critical Care
 Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 The Next Step in Managing Sarcoidosis: What Are the New Techniques and Drugs
 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons: Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer—The Appropriate Use of Technology
 Ventilator Management Symposium: Practical Application of Graphics
 ACCP Literature Review: Mechanical Ventilation and Nonpulmonary Critical Care
 Advances in Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
 Asian Pacific Respirology Society (APSR)
 Asthma in Minority Groups in the United States: Current Challenges
 Corticosteroids in Critical Care
 Hypothermia Following Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
 Indications, Case Selections, and Emerging Roles for Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration
 Lung Disease Resulting From Disasters Occurring in the Last Decade
 Management of Pediatric Empyema
 Outcome-Based Delivery of Critical Care: Facing the Challenge
 Pulmonary Hypertension in the World Health Organization Group 3: COPD, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
 Surgical Options for Treating Chronic Heart Failure
 Update on Pay for Performance
 AAAAI Session: Cutting-Edge Paradigms in Allergic Asthma and Drug Allergy
 Augmentation Therapy and Lung Transplantation for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Emphysema
 Surviving the Critical Care Performance Measure Onslaught
 Tobacco Cessation: What Every Health-care Provider Should Know
 ACCP Literature Review: ARDS and Sepsis
 Controversial Infectious Disease Issues in Lung Transplant Recipients and Candidates
 Exploring the COPD Genes: A Focus on the COPDgene Study
 Toxic Inhalations: Practical Approaches and Clinical Updates
 Translating ICU Infection Control Evidence Into Practice
 Cultural Diversity in Medicine NetWork Luncheon
 
Thursday
 Current Controversies in Transfusion Strategy
 Interventional Pulmonology: The Roles and Relationships of Health-care Professionals
 Vocal Cord Dysfunction
 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Options for Treatment in 2008
 Managing Pain in the ICU
 
 

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