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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.
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.
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
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.
Access CHEST’s full collection of guidelines, expert panel reports, and consensus statements.
Guideline topics
Airway Disorders
Chest Infections
Clinical Pulmonary
Critical Care
Interstitial Lung Disease
Interventional Pulmonary
Pulmonary Vascular
Thoracic Oncology
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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