What's Coming From Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
What's Coming From Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
As this article is being written, we are gearing up for another busy fall conference season. There are a number of excellent critical care programs being planned at this moment. The next conference on our radar is the 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society in Vienna, Austria September 27-October 1, 2003. That is followed closely by Chest 2003: 69th International Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, taking place in Orlando, Florida, October 25-30, 2003.
Be sure to take advantage of the conference coverage that we have posted this year. If you have not already done so, you can still get CME/CE credit for CHEST 2002: 68th Annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, 32nd Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, 23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 13th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Coverage of the 99th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society.
For other upcoming conference events, be sure to check out our Conference Calendar listing in the Conference Coverage section of the Medscape Pulmonary Medicine site.
We have just posted a new Clinical Update entitled: "Therapeutic Advances in the Management of Malignant Mesothelioma," and there is also one on "Improving ICU Survival in Cases of Severe Sepsis Using Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated)." If you are looking for more CME programs, remember to take a look at the Clinical Update on "Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis and Its Comorbidities" as well as the one entitled: "Therapeutic Potential of PDE4 Inhibitors in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." It will provide some of the latest studies and thinking on this aspect of treatment for COPD. We also have a Clinical Update on "Streptococcus pneumoniaeInfections: Microbiology, Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention," and we have recertified and posted an article on "Effect of a Catabolic State With Involuntary Weight Loss on Acute and Chronic Respiratory Disease." Read them now and get the CME.
We have several CME Circle features that will also allow you to earn education credit. These include: "Therapeutic Challenges in the Management of Nosocomial Pneumonia" and "Preventing Health-Care-Associated Infections Caused by Staphylococcus aureus."
In our News CME section, we have just posted a new article entitled: "Symptoms Help Distinguish Inhalational Anthrax From Viral Respiratory Illness." Another CME news article is entitled: "Linezolid Treats Resistant Gram-Positive Infections in Children." We also have another News CME item entitled: "Conventional-Intensity Better Than Low-Intensity Warfarin for VTE Prophylaxis." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program has just been launched on the site. If you are a physician and have a clinical question that you wish our panel of experts to answer in the areas of acute respiratory distress syndrome, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or smoking, click on the appropriate "Submit a Question" link in the In Focus section of the Pulmonary Medicine home page. Come back often to see if your question is chosen to be answered by our expert panel.
From Medscape's own peer-reviewed journal, Medscape General Medicine, comes a newly posted letter to the editor entitled: "A Eulogy: Personal Reflections on Dr. Peter Safar." The Medscape Pulmonary Medicine eJournal was launched as part of Medscape General Medicine (MedGenMed), edited by George D. Lundberg, MD, Editor in Chief. Articles cover all aspects of pulmonary medicine and get posted faster than in most traditional journals. To find out how to submit an article to MedGenMed's Pulmonary Medicine eJournal, take a look at the Instructions for Authors. Article submissions can be emailed to me at: Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net.
If you are a clinician, remember to send in your pulmonary-related case studies to the same email address. The cases will be presented in an interactive format that links into the discussion section of the site as well, allowing users to comment on the cases and what you did to solve them.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE Abstract collections on a number of topics. In addition to the MEDLINE search on cystic fibrosis, we also have searches on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sarcoidosis, sinusitis, and other topics.
We have just posted a number of articles from our publishing partners. From the journal Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, we have just posted an article entitled: "What Size Chest Tube? What Drainage System is Ideal? And Other Chest Tube Management Questions." as well as article entitled: "Eosinophilic Pleural Effusions." From Chest comes an article on "Snoring in Preschool Children: Prevalence and Association With Nocturnal Cough and Asthma." From the journal Critical Care, we have posted an article entitled: "Outcome After Acute Respiratory Failure Is More Dependent on Dysfunction in Other Vital Organs Than on the Severity of the Respiratory Failure."
The Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan continues to provide a monthly review of interesting and topical journal articles from specialty and general interest journals. To get a quick look at what has been published recently in the field, take a look at the latest Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan. The current Journal Scan provides reviews of articles on anticoagulant therapy in pulmonary embolism, lack of adverse adrenal effects from triamcinolone, catabolic/anabolic balance and muscle wasting in COPD, and attitudes on childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about what you see on the site or wish to suggest a new program that you would find useful, please feel free to email me at Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please contact our customer support staff at medscapecustomersupport@webmd.net.
As this article is being written, we are gearing up for another busy fall conference season. There are a number of excellent critical care programs being planned at this moment. The next conference on our radar is the 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society in Vienna, Austria September 27-October 1, 2003. That is followed closely by Chest 2003: 69th International Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, taking place in Orlando, Florida, October 25-30, 2003.
Be sure to take advantage of the conference coverage that we have posted this year. If you have not already done so, you can still get CME/CE credit for CHEST 2002: 68th Annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, 32nd Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, 23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 13th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Coverage of the 99th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society.
For other upcoming conference events, be sure to check out our Conference Calendar listing in the Conference Coverage section of the Medscape Pulmonary Medicine site.
We have just posted a new Clinical Update entitled: "Therapeutic Advances in the Management of Malignant Mesothelioma," and there is also one on "Improving ICU Survival in Cases of Severe Sepsis Using Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated)." If you are looking for more CME programs, remember to take a look at the Clinical Update on "Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis and Its Comorbidities" as well as the one entitled: "Therapeutic Potential of PDE4 Inhibitors in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." It will provide some of the latest studies and thinking on this aspect of treatment for COPD. We also have a Clinical Update on "Streptococcus pneumoniaeInfections: Microbiology, Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention," and we have recertified and posted an article on "Effect of a Catabolic State With Involuntary Weight Loss on Acute and Chronic Respiratory Disease." Read them now and get the CME.
We have several CME Circle features that will also allow you to earn education credit. These include: "Therapeutic Challenges in the Management of Nosocomial Pneumonia" and "Preventing Health-Care-Associated Infections Caused by Staphylococcus aureus."
In our News CME section, we have just posted a new article entitled: "Symptoms Help Distinguish Inhalational Anthrax From Viral Respiratory Illness." Another CME news article is entitled: "Linezolid Treats Resistant Gram-Positive Infections in Children." We also have another News CME item entitled: "Conventional-Intensity Better Than Low-Intensity Warfarin for VTE Prophylaxis." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program has just been launched on the site. If you are a physician and have a clinical question that you wish our panel of experts to answer in the areas of acute respiratory distress syndrome, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or smoking, click on the appropriate "Submit a Question" link in the In Focus section of the Pulmonary Medicine home page. Come back often to see if your question is chosen to be answered by our expert panel.
From Medscape's own peer-reviewed journal, Medscape General Medicine, comes a newly posted letter to the editor entitled: "A Eulogy: Personal Reflections on Dr. Peter Safar." The Medscape Pulmonary Medicine eJournal was launched as part of Medscape General Medicine (MedGenMed), edited by George D. Lundberg, MD, Editor in Chief. Articles cover all aspects of pulmonary medicine and get posted faster than in most traditional journals. To find out how to submit an article to MedGenMed's Pulmonary Medicine eJournal, take a look at the Instructions for Authors. Article submissions can be emailed to me at: Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net.
If you are a clinician, remember to send in your pulmonary-related case studies to the same email address. The cases will be presented in an interactive format that links into the discussion section of the site as well, allowing users to comment on the cases and what you did to solve them.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE Abstract collections on a number of topics. In addition to the MEDLINE search on cystic fibrosis, we also have searches on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sarcoidosis, sinusitis, and other topics.
We have just posted a number of articles from our publishing partners. From the journal Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, we have just posted an article entitled: "What Size Chest Tube? What Drainage System is Ideal? And Other Chest Tube Management Questions." as well as article entitled: "Eosinophilic Pleural Effusions." From Chest comes an article on "Snoring in Preschool Children: Prevalence and Association With Nocturnal Cough and Asthma." From the journal Critical Care, we have posted an article entitled: "Outcome After Acute Respiratory Failure Is More Dependent on Dysfunction in Other Vital Organs Than on the Severity of the Respiratory Failure."
The Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan continues to provide a monthly review of interesting and topical journal articles from specialty and general interest journals. To get a quick look at what has been published recently in the field, take a look at the latest Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan. The current Journal Scan provides reviews of articles on anticoagulant therapy in pulmonary embolism, lack of adverse adrenal effects from triamcinolone, catabolic/anabolic balance and muscle wasting in COPD, and attitudes on childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about what you see on the site or wish to suggest a new program that you would find useful, please feel free to email me at Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please contact our customer support staff at medscapecustomersupport@webmd.net.