Respiratory Therapy

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Citations

Citing Medicine from the National Library of Medicine.

Databases

CINAHL from EBSCOhost
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature includes Respiratory Therapy among its allied health professions. CINAHL covers over 1,800 nursing and allied health journals and other selected biomedical journals.

new! ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source from ProQuest
Includes more than 280 full-text/image journals in nursing and allied health, 1988 to the present.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition from EBSCOhost
Provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines. Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

MEDLINE with Full Text from EBSCOhost
Created by the National Library of Medicine, Medline is the premiere medical database. Ebsco's version includes full text for nearly 1,200 of the 5,264 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Search results can be limited by type of research, reviews, and case reports when using the Advanced Search mode.
MEDLINE can also be searched in the NLM's PubMed database which includes "in-process" records for articles that have not yet been entered into MEDLINE. PubMed also covers a broader range of journals, but does not provide full text articles as Ebsco access does.

Evidence Based Medicine from from OVID
Set of databases providing summaries of medical research from around the world. Covers screening, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention. There are no designated subject headings in these databases, so limit your search to the title, keyword, or abstract fields to avoid retrieving irrelevant items. For example, respiratory.ti retrieves only those items having the word respiratory in their titles; respiratory.ab targets the abstract field. Select EBM Reviews Full Text - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE from the main menu to search these databases simultaneously.

Current Contents
Provides citations and abstracts for approximately 7,000 scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Respiratory therapy journals are included in its coverage, including Seminars in Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, and Respiratory Research which are not covered by CINAHL or MEDLINE. Another version of Current Contents is available in GALILEO from ISI. It searches for books, proceedings, and web sites in addition to scholarly journals. Neither provides full text.

Online Reference

Merck Manual
Merck manuals provide detailed information on virtually all disorders, complete with discussion of symptoms and current therapy. Three Merck Manuals are provided: The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 1999; The Home Edition providing medical information in everyday language; and The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, 2000.

Journals in Lane Library

Paper subscriptions are listed below. For complete, current journal information, search the Journal Locator which includes journals received online.

Web Sites

• American Association for Respiratory Care
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American Lung Association
• American Thoracic Society
• Georgia Society for Respiratory Care
• Medical College of Georgia - Dept. of Respiratory Care
• National Board for Respiratory Care

Selected Books in Lane library

AACN Protocols for Practice: care of mechanically ventilated patients	RC735.R48 .A33 2007
Assessment of Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric Patient	DVD 573
Chest X-Ray: differential diagnosis in conventional radiology	RC941 .B886 2006
Clinical Assessment in Respiratory Care	RC776.R4 W55 2005
Fundamentals of Chest Radiology	RC941 .M36 2006
Fundamentals of Lung & Heart Sounds	Compact Disc 836
Making Sense of the Chest X-Ray	RC941 .J46 2005
Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient	RC735.R48 .P54 2007
Manual of Pulmonary Function Testing	RC734.P84 R86 2003
Mosby's respiratory care equipment	RC735.I5 R4728 2004
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	RM700 .P465 2007
Pulmonary Rehabilitation	RC756 .D66 2005
Respiratory Care Exam Review	RC735.I5 P453 2005
Respiratory Care Sciences: an integrated approach	RC735.I5 W65 2006
Respiratory physiology	QP121 .C56 2007
SARS in China: Prelude to a Pandemic?	RA644.S17 S275 2006