New Programs, Conference Coverage, Journal Articles, and CME
If you have comments or questions about the site, please contact me at Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net.
According to the medical literature, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, accounting for almost 500,000 deaths each year, which represents more than 5 million years of potential life lost. Medical costs directly related to smoking amount to $50 billion annually. For these reasons, Medscape Pulmonary Medicine established, and regularly updates, the Smoking Resource Center.
This month, we are busy planning to cover the 24th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, taking place March 30-April 2, 2004 in Brussels, Belgium. We are also looking forward to covering the 100th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in Orlando, Florida, May 21-26, 2004. If you are planning to attend, make plans early.
Conference Coverage from the 33rd Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine will be posted shortly. Stay tuned. In the meantime, our current Conference Coverage includes Highlights of CHEST 2003: 69th Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. If you have not already read them, we also have 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.
Be sure to take advantage of all of the Conference Coverage that we have on the site. If you have not already done so, you can still get credit for the 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 Medscape 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. One of our latest postings is entitled "Infectious Complications in Neutropenic Cancer Patients." We also have features entitled "Update on Fungal Disease 2003," "Targeting Critical Pathways in Oncology," and "The Suspension Is Over: New Solutions for the Treatment of Asthma." Click here for a complete list of CME Circles posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
In our News CME section, our latest article is entitled "Procalcitonin Testing Reduces Antibiotic Use in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections." Be sure to read the other News CME items: "Unsuspected Airway Obstruction Common in General Medical Service," "Dose-Relationship Between Exercise and Weight Loss," "Vasopressin Superior to Epinephrine for Asystole; Similar for V-Fib, Pulseless Electrical Activity," and "COX-2 Inhibitors Do Not Induce Urticaria." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The latest Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts question answered by the panel of experts is on "The Role for Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism." You can also read the responses on "Use of Corticosteroids in Treatment of COPD," "Inhaled Steroids in Steroid-Resistant Asthma," 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: "Conference Report -- 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco." 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 asthma and GERD, and others cover treatment in end-stage COPD and inhaled steroids in steroid-resistant asthma. In this section, you decide on the topics and you control the discussion.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE searches on a number of topics. Our latest MEDLINE Search is on the incidence of avian influenza. You can also read the MEDLINE searches on maternal smoking, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sarcoidosis, sinusitis, and other topics.
We have a number of interesting articles from our publishing partners. From the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, we have posted an article entitled: "Clinical Trials and Novel Pathogens: Lessons From SARS." Other article titles include "Sildenafil for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Children" from Pediatric Pharmacotherapy, "Universal Changes in Biomarkers of Coagulation and Inflammation Occur in Patients With Severe Sepsis, Regardless of Causative Micro-Organism" from Critical Care, and "Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Complaining of Chronic Cough" from Chest.
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 a review of articles on diagnosing asthma with exhaled nitric oxide, diagnosing bronchiolitis in infants, pursed-lip breathing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and treatment response in primary pulmonary hypertension.
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.
If you have comments or questions about the site, please contact me at Pulmonaryeditor@webmd.net.
According to the medical literature, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, accounting for almost 500,000 deaths each year, which represents more than 5 million years of potential life lost. Medical costs directly related to smoking amount to $50 billion annually. For these reasons, Medscape Pulmonary Medicine established, and regularly updates, the Smoking Resource Center.
This month, we are busy planning to cover the 24th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, taking place March 30-April 2, 2004 in Brussels, Belgium. We are also looking forward to covering the 100th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in Orlando, Florida, May 21-26, 2004. If you are planning to attend, make plans early.
Conference Coverage from the 33rd Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine will be posted shortly. Stay tuned. In the meantime, our current Conference Coverage includes Highlights of CHEST 2003: 69th Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. If you have not already read them, we also have 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.
Be sure to take advantage of all of the Conference Coverage that we have on the site. If you have not already done so, you can still get credit for the 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 Medscape 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. One of our latest postings is entitled "Infectious Complications in Neutropenic Cancer Patients." We also have features entitled "Update on Fungal Disease 2003," "Targeting Critical Pathways in Oncology," and "The Suspension Is Over: New Solutions for the Treatment of Asthma." Click here for a complete list of CME Circles posted on Medscape Pulmonary Medicine.
In our News CME section, our latest article is entitled "Procalcitonin Testing Reduces Antibiotic Use in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections." Be sure to read the other News CME items: "Unsuspected Airway Obstruction Common in General Medical Service," "Dose-Relationship Between Exercise and Weight Loss," "Vasopressin Superior to Epinephrine for Asystole; Similar for V-Fib, Pulseless Electrical Activity," and "COX-2 Inhibitors Do Not Induce Urticaria." To earn credit, read the news article and take the posttest.
The latest Pulmonary Medicine Ask the Experts question answered by the panel of experts is on "The Role for Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism." You can also read the responses on "Use of Corticosteroids in Treatment of COPD," "Inhaled Steroids in Steroid-Resistant Asthma," 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: "Conference Report -- 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco." 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 asthma and GERD, and others cover treatment in end-stage COPD and inhaled steroids in steroid-resistant asthma. In this section, you decide on the topics and you control the discussion.
We now have a number of useful MEDLINE searches on a number of topics. Our latest MEDLINE Search is on the incidence of avian influenza. You can also read the MEDLINE searches on maternal smoking, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sarcoidosis, sinusitis, and other topics.
We have a number of interesting articles from our publishing partners. From the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, we have posted an article entitled: "Clinical Trials and Novel Pathogens: Lessons From SARS." Other article titles include "Sildenafil for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Children" from Pediatric Pharmacotherapy, "Universal Changes in Biomarkers of Coagulation and Inflammation Occur in Patients With Severe Sepsis, Regardless of Causative Micro-Organism" from Critical Care, and "Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Complaining of Chronic Cough" from Chest.
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 a review of articles on diagnosing asthma with exhaled nitric oxide, diagnosing bronchiolitis in infants, pursed-lip breathing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and treatment response in primary pulmonary hypertension.
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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