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The bi-monthly FOCUS Journal For Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine, the #1 circulated magazine serving these professions, is edited for clinicians, managers and educators practicing in acute care hospitals, homecare and sleep lab settings. Each issue contains clinical articles in respiratory care and sleep medicine as well as articles dealing with aspects of management and education. Independent equipment and book reviews, along with opinions, articles on ethics, JCAHO standards, personal growth, and New Product Highlights are also contained in each issue. The Nov/Dec issue was recently distributed to 53,515 recipients. Articles appearing in this issue follow below.



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Phillip Perry - Are You a Great Manager? Test Yourself on These 10 Personal Skills

Respiratory Clinical Keeper Article #21 - Histoplasmosis

Sleep Medicine - Exploding Head Syndrome

Management Keeper Article #63 - Should You Fight it Out or Walk Away?

Respiratory Research - Do Respiratory Care Practitioners Appropriately Set Alarms in a Volume Targeted Mode?

Sleep Medicine - Effective Interactions with Parents During Pediatric Sleep Studies

Respiratory Homecare - The Plan of Care for the Home Respiratory Care Patient

Pulmonary Function Testing - Taking Pulmonary Laboratory Quality Control to a Higher Level

Respiratory Clinical - Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: A Brief Clinical Guide

Leah Curtin on Ethics - The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome

Sleep Medicine - The Credentialing Wars: The NBRC Commissions a Feasibility Study

Respiratory Homecare - Pay for Performance: Will Home Care Providers Be Included?

The Business of Sleep - Screening and Identifying Children/Adolescents with Major Sleep Disorders

Neonatal Respiratory Care - The Definition of Insanity

Sleep Medicine - Sleep Windmills: Public Health Advocacy

News from the Joint Commission - New Identity for the Joint Commission!!

Education - Problem-Based Learning Earns Good Grades

Aerosol Medicine - Da Biz

Hyperbaric Files - Crush Injury

Focus on Mechanical Ventilation - What is a "Safe" Plateau Pressure in ARDS?

Respiratory Care Online - Supporting Families of ICU Patients - Information Makes a Difference

Clinical Laboratory Medicine - Red Blood Cell Indices, Platelets & the Respiratory Therapist

Respiratory Book Review - Paradox Lost: Midnight in the Battleground of Sleep and Dream

Respiratory Therapy in Cap-Haitien, Haiti

On A Lighter Side with Andy Rooney

Industry News

Product Highlights

Employment Section


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