October 2007

Features

	Lung Diseases
	Lung Cancer in Women: the Secret, Silent Killer
	by William C. Pruitt, MBA, RRT, CPFT, AE-C
	Women began smoking at greater rates in the 1960s, and since that time, the rate of lung cancer deaths in women has escalated.

	Lung Diseases
	Blood-Gas Analysis and the Emergency Patient: a Review
	by Jennifer Lord and Tracy Evans, MS, MPH
	Blood-gas analysis is one of many useful tools that aid clinicians in diagnosing a wide variety of respiratory and metabolic illnesses.


	Lung Diseases
	Advances in the Classification and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension
	by Paul Nuccio, RRT, FAARC
	New classification system lends clarity to the diagnosis of PH.


	All About Compliance
	by Tor Valenza
	While standard CPAP remains the gold standard for OSA and various forms of SDB, it is patient compliance that drives the development of new features and technologies.


	Six Steps to Smoking Cessation
	by Tor Valenza
	Unique program addresses patients' psychological as well as physiological addictions to tobacco use.

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Lung Diseases

Out with the Old, In with the New: The ATS/ERS Standardization Statements

by Carl D. Mottram, RRT, RPFT, FAARC

New guidelines emphasize the need for better educated personnel to meet the challenges of ever more complex equipment and procedures

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Blood Gas Analyzers

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