NetWorks & Institutes

June 20, 2010

A 55-year-old Caucasian woman with scleroderma presented to the hospital in February 2009 with severe dyspnea. She felt well until 1 week prior, when she developed fevers, chills, and an intermittent dry cough.

May 20, 2010

Momen M. Wahidi, MD, MBA, FCCP, and colleagues conducted the first prospective multicenter study of performance-based metrics and educational interventions in the learning of bronchoscopy by pulmonary fellows.

May 14, 2010

A 59 year-old man developed severe abdominal pain radiating to the back immediately following elective colonoscopy.

April 30, 2010

An 18-year-old healthy man presented to the ED with several days of sore throat and fever.

April 29, 2010

Background: This consensus statement was developed based on the understanding that patients with advanced lung or heart disease are not being treated consistently and effectively for relief of dyspnea.

April 26, 2010

The US Food and Drug Administration wants to alert you that, on April 23, 2010, Covidien initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its cuffed Shiley™ tracheostomy tubes and custom/specialty tracheostomy tubes.

April 20, 2010

Member experts from the Airways Disorders NetWork participated in a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) teleconference titled, “Asthma and COPD Inhalers That Contain Ozone-Depleting CFCs” on April 13, 2010.

April 14, 2010

You will find high quality pulmonary and critical care medicine jobs and job seekers with ACCP Career Connection.

April 14, 2010
May is Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month. Learn more.
April 13, 2010

This CHEST collection contains reviews in critical care medicine.

April 13, 2010

This CHEST collection comprises reviews in sleep medicine.

April 13, 2010

This CHEST collection is made up mainly of original research articles on this timely topic.

April 13, 2010

This CHEST collection is intended to help raise the knowledge and skills of those writing papers and other materials related to research and practice, whether they be native English language speakers or not.

April 13, 2010

This new series in CHEST provides videos of procedures used by pulmonologists.

April 13, 2010

Manuscripts for this section of CHEST are designed to present an unusual case, pose a question about the diagnosis, and reveal the final diagnosis.

April 13, 2010

This CHEST collection contains brief reviews of clinical topics with a practice management perspective.

March 30, 2010

A 70-year-old woman complained of urinary incontinence precipitated by coughing and sneezing. Her only other active medical problems were hypertension and osteoarthritis. She exercised regularly, typically cycling 16 miles daily.

March 17, 2010

Dr. Braman speaks on COPD.

March 17, 2010
Dr. Chan speaks on interstitial lung disease.
March 17, 2010

Dr. Manaker speaks on practice management.

March 17, 2010
Dr. Ahmed speaks on sleep.
March 10, 2010

A 68–year–old man previously diagnosed with a "heart-murmur," but otherwise considered healthy, was transferred to our hospital with a 3–day history of fever, back pain and confusion.

March 10, 2010
A selection of recommended articles from the Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures NetWork.