Respiratory care : the official journal of the American Association for Respiratory Therapy

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An /I H DOBINS Company Circle 113 on reader service cardRE/PIRATORy OlRE A Momhiy Science Journal, tslabhshcd \'->>b Olticial .lnurrial ol ilu- Aimrican Associalmn lor Kcvpiralors (arc EDITORIAL OFFICE January 1990 Box :%86 Dallas T\ 75229 Volume NumberCONTENTS 35, I (2l4)24.'>-2272 EDITOR Hal Broughir RRT EDITORIALSASSOCIATE EDITOR Gary tVck RIM I RKI 17 Wanted: Manuscript Reviewers for Rispiratorv Care ADJUNCT EDITOR Phihp Killrcdgi- RRT hy Phil Kiiircdiic Lilllc River, California MANAGING EDITOR 20 OF Again On Again!Ray MaslcrtiT RRT —EDITORIAL ASSISTANT bv Pal Broiigher Dallas. Texas Donna Stephens BOARD SPECIAL ARTICLES Robert M Kaemarek PhD RRI, Chairman Thomas A Barnes tdD RRT 22 Respiratory Care in the Era of Preventive Medicine Riehard D Branson RRT Robert L Chalhurn RRT —by RonaldB Gcort^e Shrevepori, Louisiana Charles G Durbin JrMD Dean Hess MEd RRT Neil Maclntyre MD CONFERENCE REPORTS David J Pierson MD CONSliLTING EDITORS 29 Report and Selected Abstracts from the World Congress on Home Krank E Biondo BS RRT Care, Rome, Italy, March 14-18, 1989Howard J Birenbaum MD PhihpG Bo\scn MD by RobertMKacmarek^Boston. Massachusetts: and David J John Ci Burford MD —Boh Demers BS RRT WashingtonPierson Seattle. Donald R Elton MD RoK-rt R Ruck Jr MS RRT TESTYOUR RADIOLOGIC SKILLRonald B George MD Charles G Irvin PhD 37 Right-Side Thoracic Pain in a Young WomanJames M Hurst MD MS Jastremski MD by Franco Moncalvo. Mario Scelsi. Umberto Pandolfi. AlessandraJohn Kaltwinkel MD MarkW Mangits CPFT RRT Foniana. Slefano Nazari. Paolo Cremaschi. and Caterina Hugh S Mathewson MD —Chnstopher Maxwell RRT Nascimbene Pavia, Italy Michael McPeck BS RRT Thomas A Raflln MD BOOKS, FILMS, TAPES,& SOFTWARERichard R Richard BS RRT John Shigeoka MD 40R Brian Smith MD Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress, Jack Wanger RCPT RRT A Report of the Surgeon General (1989) edited by Ronald M Davis Jeffrey J Ward MEd RRT MD, Susan HawkJOURNAL ASSOCIATES EdM MS, and Thomas E Novotny MD Stephen M AyresMD —reviewed by Gary Peck Dallas, TexasReuben M Chemiack MD Joseph M CivettaMD David A Desautels RRT GUIDELINES John B DownsMD Donald F Egan MD 114 Risk of Infection during CPR Training and Rescue: Supplemental Gareth B Gish MS RRT Dennis M Greenbaum MD Guidelines Gregory MDGeorge Grenvik MDAke by The Emergency Cardiac Care Committee the American Heartof Frederick Helmhol/ Jr MDH Association. Reprinted, with permission, JAMA 1989:262:2714-Hodgkin MD fromJohn E Marvin Lough RRT 2715 William MillerMDF Elian J Nelson RN RRT Thomas L Pettv MD INDEXES Alan K Pierce MD Henning Pontoppidan MD 44 Respiratory Care 10-Year Subject Index—1980-1989 JohnW Sevennghaus MD Barry A ShapiroMD 101 Care 10-Year Author PRODl'CTION MANAGER KnaufDonna ABSTRACTSPRODLCTION ARTIST Jeannie Marchant 9 Summaries of Pertinent Articles in Other Journals PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Mary Carolyn Dye Care (ISSN 00989142) is a monthly publication of Daedalus Enterprises, Inc. for the American As.sociation ®Respiratory for Respiratory Care. Copyright 1990 by Daedalus Enterprises Inc. 1 1030 Abies Lane. Btix 29686, Dallas TX 75229. All nghts reserved. Reproduction in whole or in pari without the expres.s. written permission of Enterprises. Inc. is prohibited. The opinions expressed in any article or editorial are those of the author and do not necessanly reflect the views of Daedalus Enter- prises. 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