title: Respiratory care year in review 2011: long-term oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, airway management, acute lung injury, education, and management.
abstract: For the busy clinician, educator, or manager, it is becoming an increasing challenge to filter the literature to what is relevant to one's practice and then update one's practice based on the current evidence. The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature related to long-term  oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, airway management, acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory care education, and respiratory care management. These topics were chosen and reviewed in a manner that is most likely to have interest to the readers of Respiratory  Care.
authors.affiliation: HealthCare Productions, Fullerton, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dunne
authors.forename: Neil R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Macintyre
authors.forename: Ulrich H
authors.initials: UH
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Carl F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jones-Boggs Rye
authors.forename: Garry W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Kauffman
authors.forename: Dean R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hess
mesh_terms: D055371:Acute Lung Injury / Q000628:therapy; D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000191:economics; D018450:Disease Progression; D017050:Episode of Care; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000628:therapy; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States