Bibliographic Resources

Retrieve the latest information on respiratory care pactice by accessing one of the following resources:

• RCsources - Search over 50,000 references to both published and unpublished journal articles, monographs, standards, letters, and books and book chapters. Seach by keyword, title, or author and download both citations and abstracts. Updated quarterly.
• National Library of Medicine Medline Search Site - use the PubMed inteface to search the full Medline database, consisting of over 12 million articles from some 4,600 biomedical journals.

Internet Medical Directories/Gateways

• Achoo Gateway to Healthcare 
• BioMedNet 
• HealthAtoZ(Consumer-Oriented)
• Healthfinder [US Dept HHS](Consumer-Oriented)
• Galaxy's Medical List
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
• Medscape*
• MedWeb [Emory University]
• OMNI (UK) 
• Respiratory Medicine on the Web
• University of Pittsburgh Health Science Library Internet Guides
• Yahoo! Health:Medicine

On-Line Journals

• Advance for Respiratory Care Practitioners
• American Family Physician
• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
• Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• British Medical Journal
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Chest
• Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
• FOCUS Journal for RC Managers and Educators
• Journal of the American Medical Association
• Medscape Pulmonay Medicine*
• Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [CDC]
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Postgraduate Medicine
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Update
• Pulmonary Perspectives
• Respiratory Care
• Respiratory Medicine
• RT Magazine

On-Line Medical Texts/Dictionaries

• Dynamic Medical Information System [DynaMed]*
• Emergency Medicine [eMedicine]
• Family Practice Handbook [University of Iowa]
• The Global Textbook of Anesthesiology [GasNet]
• Merck Manual 
• Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
• The Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook

Practice Guidelines, Consensus Statements and Position Papers

• AARC Practice Guidelines
• American College of Cardiology Clinical Statements/Guidelines
• American College of Chest Physicians Guidelines
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Parameters
• American Thoracic Society Statements
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma [NAEPP]
• National Guideline Clearinghouse [AHRQ]
• NIH Consensus Development Program
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines (UCSF)
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text [NLM]

Standards Organizations

• American Society for Testing and Materials
• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• National Institute of Standards and Technology - SI Units