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

Lessons 11 and 12

Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Diagnosis and Treatment
By Jonathan M. Siner, MD

Silica-Related Lung Disease: It’s Still Here
By Daniel E. Banks, MD, MS, FCCP

Lessons 13 and 14

New Antidotes for Poisoning and Overdose
By Thomas E. Kearney, PharmD

Pulmonary Complications of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Therapy
By Albert J. Polito, MD, FCCP

Lessons 15 and 16

Management of the Patient With Traumatic Brain Injury
By David P. Ciceri, MD

Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia in the Critically Ill: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura-Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
By Alan Lichtin, MD

Lessons 17 and 18

Delirium in the ICU: An Overview
By Margaret A. Pisani, MD, MPH, FCCP

Management of Pulmonary Hypertension in Connective Tissue Disease
By Kristin B. Highland, MD, FCCP; and Meena Kalluri, MD

Lessons 19 and 20

Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation
By Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI; and E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, FCCP

Drug-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in the ICU
By Ghousia Wajida, MD; and Richard Fatica, MD

Lessons 21 and 22

Emergence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
By Andrew Labelle, MD; and Marin Kollef, MD, FCCP

Medications: Therapeutic and Adverse Effects on Sleep
By Asher R. A. Qureshi, MBBS, FCCP

Lessons 23 and 24

The Treatment of Sarcoidosis
By Marc A. Judson, MD, FCCP

Oral Devices for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
By Dennis Bailey, DDS