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Guidelines & Topic Collections

Everything we publish is designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, approaches, and ideas in chest medicine. From the most relevant research findings to the most significant clinical guidelines, these are the highly accredited resources you count on from CHEST.

Enhance your patient care with evidence-based guidelines

Used throughout the world, our multidisciplinary guidelines help translate quality evidence into applicable recommendations that enrich patient care and improve health outcomes. The next time you are faced with a clinical decision, turn to our clinical practice guidelines for the most relevant interventions in chest medicine.

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FEATURED GUIDELINE

Respiratory Management of Patients With Neuromuscular Weakness

These recommendations cover guidelines for mouthpiece ventilation, transition to home mechanical ventilation, salivary secretion management, and airway clearance therapies in patients experiencing respiratory muscle weakness.


Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy

FEATURED GUIDELINE

Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy

These recommendations cover the perioperative management of vitamin K antagonists, heparin bridging, antiplatelet drugs, and direct oral anticoagulants. The recommendations also address perioperative management of patients who are undergoing minor procedures.


Guidelines by topic

Access CHEST’s full collection of guidelines, expert panel reports, and consensus statements.

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Explore what’s relevant in your field

The journal CHEST® features the best in peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine—pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine—and related disciplines. With a loyal readership base, the journal is one of the most highly regarded, and up-to-date sources of clinical knowledge in the field.

Must-reads from the new issue

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Emphysema Quantifications With CT Scan

CT scans could be used to quantify the severity and progression of emphysema. Authors in the journal CHEST® set out to determine if CT scan imaging parameters affect the accuracy of emphysema-based quantifications and biomarkers.


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EDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Incidence of Respiratory Pathogens in Naval Special Warfare Sea, Air, and Land Team Candidates With Swimming-Induced Pulmonary Edema

This study examines the differences in the incidence of respiratory pathogens in nasopharyngeal samples of Naval Special Warfare candidates with swimming-induced pulmonary edema and a control group.

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Editor Highlights Podcast

Each month, the journal CHEST Editor in Chief Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, adds context and commentary to important articles featured in the new issue.

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Take a deep dive into your clinical interests

Whatever your specialty, CHEST has a topic collection that you’ll be interested in. Uncover insights from key opinion leaders, find CME opportunities, and discover original research articles.

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Closing the diagnosis gap for patients with ILD

With the Bridging Specialties™: Timely Diagnosis for ILD initiative, we're defining a clearer clinician-guided approach to diagnosis for interstitial lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis. Explore expert-based clinical resources that you can use in your practice.

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Get the inside track

Do you want to hear directly from your colleagues on the topics that matter most? Catch up on episodes that feature critical discussions with giants in the field and hear directly from authors featured in CHEST journal.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Moral Distress in Canadian Intensivists

Originally aired: May 1, 2023

Dominique Piquette, MD, PhD, discusses how the interindividual variability in moral distress of Canadian ICU physicians can be explained to inform future system-based interventions.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Nebulized vs IV Tranexamic Acid for Hemoptysis

Originally aired: May 1, 2023

Prakash Ranjan Mishra, MBBS, MD, explores whether the nebulized route of tranexamic acid administration reduces the amount of hemoptysis compared with the IV route in patients presenting to the ED with hemoptysis.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Pulmonary Nodules, Lung Cancer Screening, and Lung Cancer in the Medicare Population

Originally aired: May 1, 2023

Paul Pinsky, PhD, and Raymond Osarogiagbon, MD, talk about early detection of lung cancer through management of pulmonary nodules.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Motile Ciliary Disorders of the Nasal Epithelium in Adults With Bronchiectasis

Originally aired: May 1, 2023

Wei-jie Guan, MD, and De Yun Wang, MD, share information about the characteristics of motile ciliary disorder of the nasal epithelium and its association with disease severity and inflammatory endotypes in adults with bronchiectasis.

Stay at the forefront of chest medicine

Clinical advances, practice management updates, medical conference highlights—reading the CHEST Physician® publication is the easiest way to be in the know every month.

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Stay at the forefront of chest medicine

Clinical advances, practice management updates, medical conference highlights—reading the CHEST Physician® publication is the easiest way to be in the know every month.

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