ATS Critical Care Assembly

Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics (CCCATS) Library

The Critical Care Assembly Critically Appraised Topics is a website that provides updates in relevant and controversial critical care topics using an evidence-based approach. In reviewing this site we browsed through the online offerings and assessed the information provided as well as the user interface. Each critically appraised topic (CAT) is structured so that the following information is i...

Critical Care Neurology and Neuro Critical Care

Nritld-ats 2012

NRITLD was proud to participate in the American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting 2012 in San Francisco, USA for the first time with an exhibitor booth. Following an invitation from the ATS, NRITLD was able to present its activities in the International Community Village. Scientific researchers, clinicians and presidents of many pulmonary societies visited the NRITLD booth and had the opportunity ...

Ats Discoveries Series

Our understanding of asthma has evolved over time from a singular disease to a complex of various phenotypes, with varied natural histories, physiologies, and responses to treatment. Early therapies treated most patients with asthma similarly, with bronchodilators and corticosteroids, but these therapies had varying degrees of success. Similarly, despite initial studies that identified an under...

ATS Merck CME Newsletter

Charles M. Balch, MD, Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, reviewed the current version of the melanoma staging as well as new data on staging and prognosis contained in the 2008 version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Melanoma Staging Schema. The final version of the melanoma staging criteria are embargoed until May 2009 and implem...