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The Feburaury 2007 issue of Current Opinion in Critical Care has all respiratory related reviews and it is great reading for all. So find a copy and read an article or two. If you can’t find a copy and are interested in something specfic let me know!
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February 2007, Volume 13, Issue 1

• Mechanical ventilation: looking for new paradigms.
• Cardiopulmonary interactions in patients with heart failure.
• Noninvasive ventilation in patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure.
• Mechanical ventilation: let us minimize sleep disturbances.
• Inhalation therapy in invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation.
• Modulating cofactors of acute lung injury 2005-2006: any closer to ‘prime time’?
• Management of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by multiresistant bacteria.
• Mass casualty respiratory failure.
• Insights in pediatric ventilation: timing of intubation, ventilatory strategies, and weaning.
• Lung mechanics at the bedside: make it simple.
• Hyperoxia in the intensive care unit: why more is not always better.
• How important is the measurement of extravascular lung water?
• Modulation and treatment of patient-ventilator dyssynchrony
• Tracheostomy in the critically ill: indications, timing and techniques.

Current Opinion in Critical Care is one of 24 Current Opinion journals that aims to help clinicians and researchers keep up-to-date in a systematic way with the vast amount of information published in critical care.