CME Articles

Educational Articles

Articles with clear educational aims and value can be accredited by EBAP. You will find hereunder a list of accredited articles.



Paediatric Respiratory Reviews


  •  Acute Lung Injury in Preterm Newborn Infants: Mechanisms and Management

  • Oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula: current management strategies and complications

  • Investigating Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy and Early Childhood

  • The Role of Heliox in Paediatric Respiratory Disease 

  • Acute viral bronchiolitis in children- a very common condition with few therapeutic options 

  • Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes

  • Chylothorax: Diagnosis and Management in Children 

  • Allergic Rhinitis

  • Sublingual Immunotherapy for Children; Are we there yet? Defining its role in clinical practice

  • Pulmonary Function Testing in Young Children

  • Assessing and managing lung disease and sleep disordered breathing in children with cerebral palsy

  • Adenotonsillectomy in the context of obstructive sleep apnoea

  • Evidence-based management of paediatric primary spontaneous pneumothorax

  • Pertussis: review of epidemiology, diagnosis, management and prevention

  • Ventilatory stategies in the neonatal and paediatric intensive care units

  • Interventions in the paediatric sleep laboratory: the use and titration of respiratory support therapies

  • Asthma education an monitoring: what has been shown to work

  • Early Detection of lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis

  • Innate immunity in the lung 

  • The sleepy adolescent: causes and consequences of sleepiness in teens 

  • Optimising training: what clinicians have to offer and how to deliver it

  • Interventional radiology treatment of empyema and lung abscesses

  • The effects of second-hand smoke and direct exposure to tobacco smoke on asthma and lung function in adolescence

  • The effects of tobacco smoke exposure on respiratory health in school-aged children

  • Parasitic lung infection and the paediatric lung

  • The use of mechanical ventilation is appropriate in children with genetically proven spinal muscular atrophy type 1: the motion for

  • Tobacco smoke exposure and tracking of lung function into adult life

  • Respiratory effects of tobacco smoking on infants and young children

  • Effects of early cigarette smoke exposure on early immune development and respiratory disease

  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia

  • Nutrition in paediatric lung disease

  • Long-term cardio-respiratory consequences of heart disease in childhood

  • Editorial overview: Clinical utility of synergy testing for multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis

  • Microbiological aspects of bacterial lower respiratory tract illness in children: atypical pathogens

  • Microbiological diagnostic procedures in respiratory infections: suppurative lung disease

  • Treatment approaches for empyema in children

  • Vocal cord dysfunction in children

Respiratory Medicine CME

  • Secondary pulmonary hypertension

  • Newer diagnostic techniques for tuberculosis

  • High frequency oscillatory ventilation in children: too great expectations for too small a volume?

  • Pulmonary Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis: Diagnosis & Management

  • Pleural infection

  • The obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome

  • Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

  • A review diaphragmatic injury

  • Algorithms for assessing the probability of an Adverse Drug Reaction

  • The ASAP project: a first step to an auscultation's school creation

  • Cultural Competence for the Voice and Airway Surgeon 

  • Aspergillus-related lung disease

  • Novel Therapy for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - How to Evaluate the Efficacy?

  • Respiratory Failure due to Achalasia Cardia

  • Imaging of pleural masses: which to choose?

  • Lung cancer screening in 2008: a review and update

Breathe

  •  Ambient air pollution and the lungs: what do clinicians need to know? (March 2010)

  • Positive expiratory pressure techniques in respiratory patients: old evidence and new insights (December 2009)

  • A simplified approach to the interpretation of arterial blood gas analysis (September 2009)

  • Patient-ventilator interaction during noninvasive ventilation: practical assessment and theoretical basis (June 2009)

  • The prognostic value of exercise testing (March 2009)

  • Long-term tracheostomy care: How to do it (March 2009)

  • Achieving asthma control: the key role of inhalers (December 2008)

  • Smoking cessation: tips for improving success rates (September 2008)

  • Evidence-based monitoring of asthma control and prevention of exacerbations (June 2008)

  • How to use a mechanical insufflator-exsufflator "cough assist machine"  (June 2008)

  • Diffuse parenchymal lung disease: a practical overview Is a lung biopsy necessary for management? (March 2008)

  • Respiratory complications of obesity (March 2008)

  • Challenges in end-of-life communication in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (December 2007)

  • Lessons from high-altitude physiology (December 2007)

  • Diagnosis and management of α1-antitrypsin deficiency (September 2007)

  • The future for a child born with cystic fibrosis today (September 2007)

  • Tuberculosis in children (June 2007)

  • Optimal consultations for those with respiratory illness (June 2007) 

  • Asthma and pregnancy: interactions and management (March 2007)

  • Causes and management of exacerbations of COPD (March 2007)

European Respiratory Journal

 

  •  Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Bronchoreversibility in Severe Emphysema (May 2010)

  • Are smokers with acute cough in primary care prescribed antibiotics more often, and to what benefit? An observational study in 13 European countries (April 2010)

  • Rapid reduction in hospitalisations after an intervention to manage severe asthma (March 2010)

  • Analysis of home support and ventilator malfunction in 1,211 ventilator-dependent patients (February 2010)

  • Global lung health: the colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, tobacco smoking, HIV and COPD (January 2010)

  • Swimming pool attendance and risk of asthma and allergic symptoms in children (December 2009)

  • What is MRSA? (November 2009)

  • Admission hypoglycaemia is associated with adverse outcome in community-acquired pneumonia (October 2009)

  • Effects of exercise training in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (September 2009)

  • Outdoor air pollution is associated with disease severity in α1-antitrypsin deficiency (August 2009)

  • Sleep, sleep-disordered breathing and metabolic consequences (July 2009)

  • Prognostic relevance of angiogenesis in stage III NSCLC receiving multimodality treatment (June 2009)

  • Abnormal mitochondrial function in locomotor and respiratory muscles of COPD patients (May 2009)

  • Epidemiology and clinical management of XDR-TB: a systematic review by TBNET (April 2009)

  • Genetic variation as a predictor of smoking cessation success. A promising preventive and intervention tool for chronic respiratory diseases? (March 2009)

  • Some principles and practices of genetic biobanking studies (February 2009)

  • Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein and CD14 are increased in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of smokers (February 2009)

  • Reversing the tuberculosis upwards trend: a success story in Romania (January 2009)

  • Regulation of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction - basic mechanisms (December 2008)

  • Desmosine as a biomarker of elastin degradation in COPD: current status and future directions (November 2008) 

  • Active case finding of tuberculosis in Europe: a Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET) survey (October 2008)

  • Health belief model predicts adherence to CPAP before experience with CPAP (September 2008) 

  • Pre-immigration screening process and pulmonary tuberculosis among Ethiopian migrants in Israel (August 2008)

  • Children at high altitude have less nocturnal periodic breathing than adults (July 2008)

  • New evidence of risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia: a population-based study (June 2008)

  • Reference equations for lung function screening of healthy never-smoking adults aged 18-80 years (April 2008)

  • Value of chest radiography in phenotyping chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (March 2008)

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