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FOCUS Journal For Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine

 


Dana Oakes Respiratory Books  
  The bi-monthly FOCUS Journal For Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine 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 editorial dealing with aspects of management, departmental administration and education. Formal, independently conducted equipment and book reviews along with opinions, articles on ethics, JCAHO standards, Product Highlights and Personal Growth are also contained in each edition. The Sept/Oct issue of Focus was recently distributed to 56,000+ recipients. Each issue is also fully replicated on-line.

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A Note from the Publisher

Phillip Perry - Leave Policies that Keep Your Organization Healthy

Respiratory Clinical Keeper Article #20 - Starling’s Law of the Capillaries Part II

Sleep Medicine - The Immunity Gene and Sleepwalking

Management Keeper Article #62- To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen: Your Visibility at Work

Research - Does Decreased ScvO2 Correspond to Increased Mortality in MICU Patients with Severe Sepsis?

Sleep Medicine - Compliance with Home CPAP - One Patient’s Perspective

Respiratory Homecare - Changes in Home Oxygen Reimbursement for 2007

Pulmonary Function Testing - Evidence for Spirometry

Respiratory Clinical - Mechanical Ventilation in a New Key: In Defense of the Chatburn Classification

Leah Curtin on Ethics - Not in Our Wildest Dreams

Blood Gas Laboratory - Preventing Preanalytical Error in Blood Gas Analysis

Sleep Medicine - Portable vs. Facility Based Sleep Testing – Part II

Respiratory Homecare - Is the new Medicare Payment Methodology a Shot in the Arm?

The Business of Sleep - Do You Provide Both Sleep Diagnostic and Sleep DME Services?

Neonatal Respiratory Care - Measuring Neonatal Adverse Events

Sleep Medicine - Truckophobia

JCAHO News - Language, Culture and Patient Safety

Education - Problem-Based Learning: A Current Status Report

Focus on Home Care - Staffing Issues in Home Care: Where are We Headed?

Aerosol Medicine - Does Size Really Matter?

Hyperbaric Files - Hyperbaric Medicine and Radiotherapy: Is it ‘Déjà vu’ all over again?

Focus on Mechanical Ventilation - Do Breathing Patterns Predict Weanability?

Respiratory Care Online - It Takes a Thief

Clinical Laboratory Medicine - The Complete Blood Count (CBC)

On A Lighter Side with Andy Rooney

Industry News

Product Highlights

Employment Section

 
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