Key Journals and Their Focus

Introduces journals that publish respiratory care research and guidance including Respiratory Care, Chest, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Journal of Critical Care; explains article types such as clinical trials, practice guidelines, and technical evaluations.

How to Read Respiratory Research

A checklist for appraising respiratory studies: note patient population, ventilator settings, device models, outcome measures (mortality, ventilator?free days), and applicability to local practice.

Using Articles for Protocol Development

Advice on extracting methods, performance metrics, and monitoring approaches from papers to support protocol updates, competency programs, and departmental QA projects.