What Have We Done on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine in 2003?
It is that time of year again when we take a moment to see how far we have come and where we need to go in the future. In the specialty of pulmonary medicine, much progress has been made in a number of clinical areas, and we have tried to capture that progress in the Conference Coverage, Journal Scans, Clinical Updates, Resource Centers, and the other programs that we post on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine. In 2003, we have also tried to add more discussion of clinical issues through the new Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program for physicians as well as through the Featured Discussions that you yourself post on the site.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have helped me this year to make the Medscape Pulmonary Medicine site what it is today. To the members of Medscape Pulmonary Medicine's Editorial Board -- Michael Niederman, MD; Edward Abraham, MD; and Andrew Shorr, MD -- I say thank you for your help and advice. To all of the authors and reviewers who have written, edited, and commented on the many projects that we have posted, thank you for your hard work. To everyone who has helped me with advice and direction, etc., a sincere thanks to you.
Over the past year, we have covered quite a few conferences and look forward to continuing our conference coverage into 2004. We have also launched and posted a number of new programs on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine this year. Below is a summary of what has been posted recently.
We have just posted Highlights of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 16th Annual Congress, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as well as conference coverage from the Infectious Diseases Society of America 41st Annual Meeting, which took place in San Diego, California. In addition, CME coverage of the 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society, which took place in Vienna, Austria, has also been posted. You can read the news from CHEST 2003: 69th Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, which took place in Orlando, Florida, and the CME coverage will be posted shortly as well. Stay tuned.
Be sure to take advantage of all of the Conference Coverage that we have done this year. If you have not already done so, you can still get credit for the 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, Coverage of the 99th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, the World Allergy Organization Congress -- XVIII ICACI, and the 43rd Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Click here for a complete list of posted Pulmonary Medicine Conference Coverage.
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 a number of Clinical Updates on the site. One is entitled: "New Strategies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma," another is entitled: "Therapeutic Advances in the Management of Malignant Mesothelioma," and we have 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 pneumoniae Infections: 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. Click here for a complete list of Clinical Updates posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
We have a number of CME Circle features that will also allow you to earn education credit. We have just posted one entitled: "Targeting Critical Pathways in Oncology" and one entitled: "The Suspension Is Over: New Solutions for the Treatment of Asthma." Remember to also read the programs entitled: "Therapeutic Challenges in the Management of Nosocomial Pneumonia" and "Preventing Health-CareAssociated Infections Caused by Staphylococcus aureus." Click here for a complete list of Clinical Updates posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
In our News CME section, we have just posted a new article entitled: "Benefits of Inhaled Corticosteroids for Asthma Outweigh Risks." Be sure to read the other News CME items: "Oral Prednisolone May Be Ineffective for Acute Wheezing in Children," "New Guidelines for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency," "Symptoms Help Distinguish Inhalational Anthrax From Viral Respiratory Illness," and "Linezolid Treats Resistant Gram-Positive Infections in Children." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program is a new feature that was just launched on the site a few months ago. The latest item that we posted for the program is on "Inhaled Steroids in Steroid-Resistant Asthma." Also read the responses on "Use of Corticosteroids in Treatment of COPD" and "Cough-Variant Asthma." 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, smoking, or general pulmonary medicine, click on the appropriate "Submit a Question" links in the In Focus section of the Pulmonary Medicine home page or click here for the index page. Come back often to see if your question has been chosen to be answered by our expert panel.
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. The most current article is entitled: "Case Report: Requirement of Supplemental Morphine During Sedation With Propofol in a Critically Ill Patient Undergoing Hemodiafiltration." 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.
The Pulmonary Medicine site has a number of interesting and provocative discussions going on in our Featured Discussions section. One of our Featured Discussions is on CPAP use after traumatic pneumothorax and another is on acute postoperative pulmonary edema. In this section, you decide on the topics and you control the discussion.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE Abstract Collections on a variety 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 Applied Radiology, we have posted an article entitled: "Disseminated Nocardia Asteroides Infection With Pulmonary and Cerebral Abscesses." From Current Opinion in Pulmonary Diseases, we have just posted "Sleep Disorders in Children" and "Update on Pathogenesis of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease." From Chest, we posted "Home Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review of the Literature: An Evidence Review Cosponsored by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Thoracic Society." From Current Opinion in Rheumatology, we posted "Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis."
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 Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan provides reviews of articles on use of oxygen in exercise training in nonhypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, anabolic steroids in the rehab of COPD patients, assessing smoking in asthma and COPD, and near-fatal asthma.
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.
Happy holidays!
It is that time of year again when we take a moment to see how far we have come and where we need to go in the future. In the specialty of pulmonary medicine, much progress has been made in a number of clinical areas, and we have tried to capture that progress in the Conference Coverage, Journal Scans, Clinical Updates, Resource Centers, and the other programs that we post on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine. In 2003, we have also tried to add more discussion of clinical issues through the new Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program for physicians as well as through the Featured Discussions that you yourself post on the site.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have helped me this year to make the Medscape Pulmonary Medicine site what it is today. To the members of Medscape Pulmonary Medicine's Editorial Board -- Michael Niederman, MD; Edward Abraham, MD; and Andrew Shorr, MD -- I say thank you for your help and advice. To all of the authors and reviewers who have written, edited, and commented on the many projects that we have posted, thank you for your hard work. To everyone who has helped me with advice and direction, etc., a sincere thanks to you.
Over the past year, we have covered quite a few conferences and look forward to continuing our conference coverage into 2004. We have also launched and posted a number of new programs on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine this year. Below is a summary of what has been posted recently.
We have just posted Highlights of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 16th Annual Congress, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as well as conference coverage from the Infectious Diseases Society of America 41st Annual Meeting, which took place in San Diego, California. In addition, CME coverage of the 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society, which took place in Vienna, Austria, has also been posted. You can read the news from CHEST 2003: 69th Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, which took place in Orlando, Florida, and the CME coverage will be posted shortly as well. Stay tuned.
Be sure to take advantage of all of the Conference Coverage that we have done this year. If you have not already done so, you can still get credit for the 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, Coverage of the 99th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, the World Allergy Organization Congress -- XVIII ICACI, and the 43rd Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Click here for a complete list of posted Pulmonary Medicine Conference Coverage.
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 a number of Clinical Updates on the site. One is entitled: "New Strategies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma," another is entitled: "Therapeutic Advances in the Management of Malignant Mesothelioma," and we have 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 pneumoniae Infections: 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. Click here for a complete list of Clinical Updates posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
We have a number of CME Circle features that will also allow you to earn education credit. We have just posted one entitled: "Targeting Critical Pathways in Oncology" and one entitled: "The Suspension Is Over: New Solutions for the Treatment of Asthma." Remember to also read the programs entitled: "Therapeutic Challenges in the Management of Nosocomial Pneumonia" and "Preventing Health-CareAssociated Infections Caused by Staphylococcus aureus." Click here for a complete list of Clinical Updates posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
In our News CME section, we have just posted a new article entitled: "Benefits of Inhaled Corticosteroids for Asthma Outweigh Risks." Be sure to read the other News CME items: "Oral Prednisolone May Be Ineffective for Acute Wheezing in Children," "New Guidelines for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency," "Symptoms Help Distinguish Inhalational Anthrax From Viral Respiratory Illness," and "Linezolid Treats Resistant Gram-Positive Infections in Children." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts program is a new feature that was just launched on the site a few months ago. The latest item that we posted for the program is on "Inhaled Steroids in Steroid-Resistant Asthma." Also read the responses on "Use of Corticosteroids in Treatment of COPD" and "Cough-Variant Asthma." 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, smoking, or general pulmonary medicine, click on the appropriate "Submit a Question" links in the In Focus section of the Pulmonary Medicine home page or click here for the index page. Come back often to see if your question has been chosen to be answered by our expert panel.
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. The most current article is entitled: "Case Report: Requirement of Supplemental Morphine During Sedation With Propofol in a Critically Ill Patient Undergoing Hemodiafiltration." 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.
The Pulmonary Medicine site has a number of interesting and provocative discussions going on in our Featured Discussions section. One of our Featured Discussions is on CPAP use after traumatic pneumothorax and another is on acute postoperative pulmonary edema. In this section, you decide on the topics and you control the discussion.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE Abstract Collections on a variety 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 Applied Radiology, we have posted an article entitled: "Disseminated Nocardia Asteroides Infection With Pulmonary and Cerebral Abscesses." From Current Opinion in Pulmonary Diseases, we have just posted "Sleep Disorders in Children" and "Update on Pathogenesis of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease." From Chest, we posted "Home Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review of the Literature: An Evidence Review Cosponsored by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Thoracic Society." From Current Opinion in Rheumatology, we posted "Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis."
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 Pulmonary Medicine Journal Scan provides reviews of articles on use of oxygen in exercise training in nonhypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, anabolic steroids in the rehab of COPD patients, assessing smoking in asthma and COPD, and near-fatal asthma.
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.
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