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Anesthesiology
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Cardiology
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Critical
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General
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- Karolinska
Institute -Diseases and Disorders Indices
- MedExplorer
- Pan
American Health Organization
- National
(U.S.)Health Information Center
- Medscape
- Med
Nexus---A free online service for physicians and other health
care providers
- HealthNet
- Health
Economic Resources
- MultiMedia
reference Library
- Cancer
Websites
StackRay
Medical Radiology Homepage
Clinical Trials Listing
Service
- Asthma
Information for Health Care/Other Professionals - National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute
A site comprising links to a comprehensive set of resources,
including clinical practice guidelines and AsthmaMemo,
a yearly publication reporting on the latest research findings,
effective health promotion strategies, data, NAEPP Coordinating
Committee member activities, and publications.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention - Influenza Prevention and
Control
Fact sheet from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
that includes information on surveillance methods for influenza,
guidelines and rationale for influenza vaccination, and updates
on antiviral prophylaxis.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention - Division of TB Elimination
Features the 1997 TB Surveillance Report, and articles including
Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis among
Foreign-Born Persons, and Aquired Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
- Buenaventura, Colombia, 1998.
- National
Guidelines Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
- Tuberculosis
- From the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), National Institutes of Health
Links to fact sheets and a review of the NIAID tuberculosis
research program, including updates on novel treatments and
therapeutic strategies.
- Adult
Pulmonary Core Curriculum
From the Virtual Hospital, this interactive clinical education
site will be of interest and value to all physicians who evaluate
and provide care for patients with lung disease and for pharmacists
who manage medications commonly used in treating patients with
pulmonary disease. The teaching cases, developed using patients
seen at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, include
complete patient information and appropriate imaging studies,
and focus on disease entities ranging from pulmonary malignancy
to pulmonary infectious disease.
- Asthma
Education: Interactive Guidelines
The National Asthma Education Program Guidelines for the
Diagnosis and Management of Asthma was designed to provide the
asthma educational content for the National Institute of Health's
findings on the detection and treatment of asthma. This interactive
program is designed to be responsive to professional and patient
needs at the point-of-care, as well as to facilitate retrieving
relevant guideline content while providing patient care where
decisions are made.
- Asthma
Management Model System
An information management tool designed by an international
panel of experts first convened in 1997 by the National Asthma
Education and Prevention Program of the United States National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
to facilitate science-based decision-making and evidence-based
medicine in long-term asthma management.
- Lung
Tumors: A Multidisciplinary Database
From the Virtual Hospital, this interactive clinical education
site is designed to assist in the proper work-up of patients
with undiagnosed chest masses.
- Respiratory
Disease Center - Pharmaceutical Information Network
A comprehensive set of resources on respiratory disease
compiled by PharmInfoNet, including research news from the major
medical meetings, treatment updates, and clinical articles.
- Virtual
Hospital: Pulmonary Medicine
This family practice handbook from the University of Iowa
contains comprehensive clinical overviews on a spectrum of respiratory
disorders, including COPD, pleural effusion, pneumonia, asthma,
and bronchiectasis.
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Home Care
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Hospital/Medical
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Hospital
Safety and Health Resources
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Infectious
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Mailing
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- Alpha-1
To provide peer-to-peer
support and information to people having emphysema and other
health disorders related to Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1AD)
which is a rare hereditary condition characterized by a lack
of Alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor. Depending on the extent of
the deficiency and other variables, A1AD may result in damages
to the lungs, including slowly progressive, severe emphysema
affecting the lower lungs.
To
subscribe: send email to
LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
and in the body of the message, put subscribe alpha-1.
- ASTHMA-L
A discussion group
for asthmatics, physicians, respiratory therapists, etc. Contact
person: amber@intergate.bc.ca.
- Nitric
Oxide
iNO-l is a list server
dealing with all the aspects of inhaled nitric oxide in medicine.
To
subscribe: Send an email message to
majordomo@lists.invivo.net with subscribe iNO-l as the first
line in the body of your message.
- RC_WORLD
To SUBSCRIBE or SIGNOFF
or adjust your subscription settings for the mailing list, the
address is: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU.
To
subscribe: send e-mail to the above address and say in the
body of the note: SUBSCRIBE RC_WORLD first-name surname, credentials.
The
command to "unsubscribe" is not supported. Rather use this
command, sent to the above address: SIGNOFF RC_WORLD
- Siemens
Servo Forum
Siemens has set up a listserver to serve as a forum of discussion
on their ventilator products.
To
subscribe: send an e-mail to:
listserv@earth.execpc.com.
Set the subject to: subscribe. In the body of your message
just put: subscribe siemens-servo-forum.
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Medical/Bio-Science
Journals and Publications
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- Advance
for Respiratory Care Annals
of Internal Medicine-The Annals and other ACP Journals can
be surfed from here. Check out the new one: Evidence-Based Medicine
for a number of articles of interest to RCPs.
- ADVANCE
for Managers of Respiratory Care
Now in its
eighth year, ADVANCE for Managers of Respiratory Care
remains the one publication that upper-level, purchase decision-making
respiratory care professionals turn to for timely reports on
workplace trends.
- ADVANCE
for Respiratory Care Practitioners is
the most widely read publication in the respiratory care arena
from coast to coast, offering timely stories, dynamic features
and red-hot job prospects.
- American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Home page of one of the official journals of the American
Thoracic Society. The journal presents timely articles, state-of-the-art
reviews, and clinical investigations that promote the understanding
of the pathophysiology and treatment of pulmonary disease. Access
to article abstracts from current and past issues is free; access
to full-text available to subscribers.
- British
Medical Journal
BMJ publishes full-text original scientific studies, review
and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical,
scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting
health. A searchable index is also provided.
- CHEST
Home page of the official publication of the American College
of Chest Physicians. Each month the journal features cutting
edge clinical investigations in the multidisciplinary specialties
of chest medicine.
- FOCUS
Journal for Respiratory Care Managers and Educators,
The
FOCUS Journal for Respiratory
Care Managers and Educators, is must reading for
managers, educators and those aspiring to be
managers or educators. This well-known nationally distributed
quarterly journal, now in its eighth year is chock full of interesting
management-oriented articles, equipment reviews, opinions, product
highlights, cartoons and much more, presented in their entirety
here on the Internet each and every quarter. There's plenty
for everybody in each issue whether you work in acute care,
sub-acute care, homecare, or education.
- JAMA-Jour
of the American Medical Association
- Journal
National Cancer Institute
- Journal
Neurobiology of Disease
- Journal
of Aerosol Medicine
- Journal
of Medical Imaging
- Nature
- New
England Journal of Medicine
- The
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Home page of the official publication of the American Academy
of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Access to article abstracts
from current and past issues is free; access to full-text available
to subscribers.
- The
Scientist OnLine
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Newsgroups
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- alt.support.asthma
- alt.support.sleep-disorder
- alt.support.stop-smoking
- bit.med.resp-care.world
- sci.med
- sci.med.diseases.als
- sci.med.telemedicine
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Pharmaceutical
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Sleep Disorders
Medicine
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Tobacco
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Tobacco and
its role in the causation of chronic pulmonary diseases as well
as cancer is one of the many important subjects in any respiratory
care pracitioner’s knowledge base. To that end we are pleased
to present a highly important website known as the Tobacco Control
Archives. We won’t tell you too much about it but it will
both startle and educate the RCPs who decide to visit.
To wind your way through these Archives click on the following
links:
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Medical
Science Books
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Respiratory
Therapy Societies/Related Medical Societies and Organizaions
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- American
Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Site links include: patient/public information, professional
information, physician referral and more.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics
Professional
and patient education material, plus link to home page of the
academy's respected journal, Pediatrics.
- American
Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- American
Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American
Association of Respiratory Care-AARC
This association is the professional society for respiratory
care practitioners in hospitals and with home care companies,
managers of respiratory and cardiopulmonary services, and educators
who provide respiratory care training. Site links include: products
and services, job listings, meetings, clinical practice guidelines
and more.
- American
College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
- American
College of Chest Physicians
- American
Heart Association
- American
Hospital Association
- American
Lung Assn/American Thoracic Soc The mission of the American
Lung Association is to prevent lung disease and promote lung
health.
- American
Medical Association The Association's work includes the
development and promotion of standards in medical practice,
research, and education; strong advocacy agenda on behalf of
patients and physicians; and the commitment to providing accurate,
timely information and discourse on matters important to the
health of American .
- American
Sleep Apnea Association The The American Sleep Apnea Association
is dedicated to reducing injury, disability, and death from
sleep apnea and to enhancing the well-being of those affected
by this common disorder.
- American
Sleep Disorders AssociationAmerican
Society of Anesthesiologists
- American
Society for Testing and Materials
- American
Subacute Care AssnAmerican
Thoracic Society
- Campaign
for Tobacco-Free kids
- Canadian
Society of Respiratory Therapists
- COARC,
The Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care
- Commission
on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
- Council
on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation
- Critical
Care Medicine
- EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
- Extracorporeal
Life Support Organization HCFA
Health Care Financing Administration
- International
Lung Sounds Association The International Lung Sounds Association
provides a forum for researchers who study respiratory acoustics.
The Association includes researchers from around the world who
study respiratory acoustics. Their work may focus on lung sounds
in health and disease but also on other respiratory sounds such
as cough and snoring.
- Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Lambda Beta Society
- National
Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care
- National
Association for the Support of Long Term Care
- National
Board of Respiratory Care
- National
Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
- National
Lung Health Education Program
- Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
- Respiratory
Therapy Society of Ontario The Respiratory Therapy Society
of Ontario is a non-profit organization of professionals devoted
to the promotion of respiratory therapy in the province of Ontario.
Links include: student's corner, bulletin board, chat room,
continuing education, and more.
- Society
of Critical Care Medicine
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Educational
Programs
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Care Equipment-Manufacturer/Dealers
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