PCCU Volume 22 (published calendar year 2008)

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Lessons 1 and 2

Hospital Ethics Case Consultation: An Overview
By Brooke M. Cotter, MD, and Laszlo T. Vaszar, MD, FCCP

Evaluation of the Patient with a Pleural Effusion
By Steven A. Sahn, MD, FCCP

Lessons 3 and 4

Constrictive Bronchiolitis Obliterans: What Do We Know About This Fibrotic Airway Disease?
By Gary R. Epler, MD, FCCP

Botulism: Diagnosis and Management
By Ilene B. Anderson, PharmD; and Susan Y. Kim-Katz, PharmD

Lessons 5 and 6

New Sleep Scoring Guidelines
By Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD, FCCP

Mushroom Poisoning
By George H. Caughey, MD

Lessons 7 and 8

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Vasculitis
By Stephen K. Frankel, MD, FCCP

More Than Brief Intervention: Updating Smoking Cessation Treatment for Pulmonary Patients
By David Gonzales, PhD; Wendy Bjornson, MPH; and Catherine J. Markin, MD, FCCP

Lessons 9 and 10

Obesity and Pulmonary Dysfunction
By Akshay Sood, MD, FCCP; and Kathia A. Ortiz-Cantillo, MD

Complex Sleep Apnea
By Akram Khan, MD; and Peter C. Gay, MD, FCCP