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期刊名称：RESPIRATORY CARE ISSN： 0020-1324 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： DAEDALUS ENTERPRISES INC, 9425 N MAC ARTHUR BLVD, STE 100, IRVING, USA, TX, 75063-4706 期刊网址： http://www.rcjournal.com/ 影响因子： 1.521(2008) 主题范畴： CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 变更情况： 2007new 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal RESPIRATORY CARE is the official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC). It is published monthly, and is listed in Index Medicus and included in ISI’s Web of Science. Its contents are searchable via PubMed and most widely-used search engines. In continuous publication since 1956, RESPIRATORY CARE is edited by David J Pierson MD FAARC, professor of medicine at the University of Washington. The Journal’s editorial office is in Seattle, with other editorial and production activities taking place in Irving, Texas. The editor in chief is assisted by five Associate Editors and an Assistant Editor, as well as by an Editorial Board, whose members include respiratory therapists, physicians, physiologists, and others involved in the field. More information on the Journal’s structure and personnel is available on the editorial board page. RESPIRATORY CARE deals with the subject area of the same name, and thus publishes articles pertaining to disorders affecting the cardiorespiratory system, including their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, manifestations, diagnostic assessment, monitoring, prevention, and management. Because the practice of respiratory care prominently involves equipment and devices, the development, evaluation, and use of these things feature prominently in what the Journal publishes. However, as indicated by the word “care” in its name, the Journal also emphasizes the patient, and on improving all aspects of the care of individuals affected by respiratory disease. Further information on the subject area of respiratory care as addressed by the Journal, and its relationship to the health care profession of the same name, can be found in the editorial, What is Respiratory Care?. The Journal sponsors the AARC’s annual OPEN FORUM, held each year as part of the annual International Respiratory Congress. Abstracts of research studies and case reports accepted for presentation are published in RESPIRATORY CARE. At the OPEN FORUM, the work described in these abstracts is presented in the form of posters, grouped by subject, and discussed in mini-symposia. Many of the research projects first presented at the OPEN FORUM are also developed into full manuscripts for submission to RESPIRATORY CARE. In addition to the reports of original research and the other article types listed below, an important function of RESPIRATORY CARE is the publication of special issues devoted to specific themes. These special issues are developed from state-of-the-art or consensus conferences convened by the Journal, as well as from selected symposia presented at the annual International Respiratory Congress. All manuscripts submitted to RESPIRATORY CARE are subjected to peer review. The editor relies on objective evaluations by outside experts and members of the Editorial Board in deciding whether submitted manuscripts should be accepted for publication, revised for further peer review, or rejected. Only manuscripts fitting the categories of articles the Journal published are accepted. These categories are: Original Research Article Review Article Special Article Case Report Point-of-View Article Teaching Case of the Month Test Your Radiographic Skill PFT Corner Graphics Corner Editorial (generally by invitation only) Book, film, software or website review (generally by invitation only) Letter to the Editor Definitions, descriptions, and required characteristics of each of these categories can be found in the Manuscript Preparation Guide. The Journal’s policies with respect to the ethics of research and publication, as well as information on the submission process and other topics, can also be found in the Manuscript Preparation Guide. Instructions to Authors   Guidelines for Authors RESPIRATORY CARE welcomes original manuscripts related to the science, technology, ethics, and art of respiratory care. The Journal uses a web-based system called Manuscript Central for manuscript submission, peer review, and manuscript tracking. We ask that authors submit all manuscripts electronically using this system. Manuscripts submitted by mail or email will not be accepted. Manuscripts submitted by mail or email before the launch of Manuscript Central will not be found online. Detailed instructions are available on the site and the process should be self-explanatory. Before submitting your manuscript, please read and carefully follow the instructions in the following guides: General Manuscript Guidelines Preparing the Manuscript Categories of Articles General Guidelines Editorial Policies for Authors Ethics of investigation Conflict of Interest Online Submission Preparing Your Files Peer Review Submission of Revision Response to Reviewers Copy Editing Page Proofs Copyright Back to index Editorial Policies for Authors For editorial consultation regarding manuscript categories, the suitability of a potential submission, or for queries about the submission process, please contact the editorial office. David J Pierson MD FAARC Editor in Chief dpierson@oz.net Katherine Kreilkamp Assistant Editor rcjkk@oz.net Technical support is available from Monday through Friday from 7:00am to 3:00pm PST at 1 206 223 0558. All communications from the Editor in Chief and the editorial office will be via e-mail: the decision of whether to send the manuscript for peer review, the peer reviewers’ comments, and the editor’s decision after peer review. Manuscripts must conform to the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors’ Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals and to the following instructions. The manuscript must not have been previously published elsewhere in any form and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, including publicly accessible Web sites. If any part of the material (other than a brief abstract submitted to a national meeting) has been published or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, to avoid allegations of duplicate publication you must provide RESPIRATORY CARE copies of all such material, as well as outline the relationship of all materials. RESPIRATORY CARE adheres to the policies on “ghost authorship” adopted by the World Association of Medical Editors. All persons listed as authors must: Give consent to submission and publication of the work Have participated in the research and in the shaping of the manuscript Have read and approved the manuscript Be able to publicly discuss and defend the manuscript’s content Authorship is not based on obtaining funding, collecting or analyzing data, offering advice, or similar activities. Persons who provide such services may be mentioned in the Acknowledgments. Any editorial or authorship contributions made by outside organizations, persons, funding bodies, or persons hired by funding bodies must be appropriately acknowledged on the Title Page. Any potential conflicts of interest of all such contributors must also be acknowledged on the Title Page. Failure to adhere to these policies may result in rejection of the manuscript. Top | Back Ethics of Investigation Per the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, RESPIRATORY CARE will consider reports of clinical trials begun after July 1, 2005, only if the trial has been registered before data collection began. Register at the National Library of Medicine’s free registry siteor other acceptable site. Clinical trials must follow the CONSORT guidelines. The manuscript must comply with the 22-item CONSORT checklist. The first figure in a report of a clinical trial must contain a flow diagram that shows the phases of the trial, including enrollment, patient allocation, follow-up, and analysis. All studies that include human subjects must indicate in the Methods section that approval was received from the appropriate local institutional review board(s), and/or that the procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. All authors are responsible for ensuring that the manuscript also complies with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), available at, which applies to information in any part of the report that could identify a patient. You must provide written consent from the patient, next of kin, or guardian for any photograph, illustration, or description in which an individual could be identified. All studies involving animals must indicate in the Methods section that approval was received from the local institutional review board(s), or that the research was conducted in accordance with a national guideline (eg, Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Top | Back Conflict of Interest It is expected that some authors will have financial and other ties to commercial entities related to products, services, or other aspects of submitted manuscripts, either at the time of submission or previously. The Journal does not consider such potential conflicts of interest to be unethical. However, failure to fully disclose such potential conflicts is unethical. The editor reserves the right to determine whether to share disclosed information with reviewers, or—if the manuscript is published—with the readership. For any questions regarding conflict of interest, see the Conflict of Interest section in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Top | Back Online Submission Submit your manuscript to: Manuscript Central. Detailed instructions are available on the Web site, and the process should be self-explanatory. Before submitting your manuscript, please read and carefully follow the instructions below. In addition to the online submission of your manuscript, you must also complete and return by surface mail, fax, or PDF attachment to an email the Manuscript Submission Form, which requires all authors’ signatures (hand signatures only). The manuscript cannot be accepted for review until all authors have signed this form. The editorial office will not acknowledge receipt of this form but will query you if it is not received. Top | Back Preparing Your Files On your computer, save your manuscript in one of the following file types: Microsoft Word (.DOC), Rich Text Format (.RTF), PostScript (.PS). Other file types are not allowed. If you have not done so already, place your tables, figures, and/or appendixes in separate files from the body of the manuscript. Check that you have the following files ready to transmit: Title Page Abstract Body of the manuscript, including references and figure legends Figures, tables, and/or appendixes in separate files Make sure you have all co-authors’ full names (including middle initials), geographical addresses (city/state), and e-mail addresses. You have to login, or if you are a first-time user of RESPIRATORY CARE Manuscript Central, create a user account using the “Create Account” option. Before creating your user account, check to see if you have an existing account. You should have only one account, even if you have multiple roles (such as a previous author or reviewer). Check to see that your user account is up to date. If your email address changes, please update your user account to ensure that you receive e-mail communication in a timely manner. Always click the “Update Information” button to make sure the changes are saved. If you submitted the manuscript previously, include the ID number assigned by the RESPIRATORY CARE editorial office. You must select at least 3 categories from a defined list to aid in the selection of reviewers. You can complete all steps of the submission process at one sitting or return to complete the process later. You may stop working at any point in the submission process, but be sure to complete the screen you are on before logging off. For security reasons, Manuscript Central will log out if no activity takes place after 75 min, and any work that is left in a screen that is not ‘saved’ will be lost. (Note that you can copy/paste information—title, abstract, etc—from your text file into Manuscript Central.) Manuscript Central will create both an HTML version and a PDF version of each manuscript. You will be required to proof both versions before the process is complete. Please check to see that all elements appear, that tables are complete, that figure resolution is acceptable, and that any special characters and math have successfully converted to HTML and PDF. These new versions of your manuscript are for your personal review, for editorial office review, and for peer review. Check for a confirmation e-mail. Successful submission will immediately generate an e-mail to you that will include a unique manuscript number. If you do not receive an e-mail, return to your author center and be sure that you clicked the final submit button. Top | Back Peer Review All submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review on the basis of clarity, scientific accuracy, breadth of appeal, and timeliness. Manuscripts are reviewed by professionals with experience in the subject of the manuscript. External reviewers are selected by the Editor in Chief. However, authors are invited to provide the names of 3 particularly well qualified reviewers who are not affiliated with the same institution(s) as the authors and who have not been involved in the research or preparation of the manuscript; the suggestions are not mandatory. Current e-mail addresses must be provided for all suggested reviewers. Authors may also suggest individuals who they would prefer not to review their manuscript. You can log onto Manuscript Central at any time to check the status of your manuscript. The Editor will inform you via email once a decision has been made. Manuscripts that do not conform to guidelines will be delayed in processing and risk not being accepted for review. When inquiring about a manuscript, please refer to the assigned manuscript number. Inquires will be accepted from the designated Corresponding Author only. Top | Back Submission of Revision Before logging on to Manuscript Central, you should have ready: A “marked-up” (“tracked changes”) copy of the revised manuscript, which shows the changes in red. On the first page please write “REVISED VERSION.” Tables, figures, and/or appendixes in separate files In Manuscript Central you must delete the original version and upload the revised file. If there has been any change in authors, author contact information, or other aspect of the research or manuscript about which the Editor should be informed, in addition to the revised version, you must submit another completed Manuscript Submission Form (mail or fax it to the Editorial Office, as you did during the initial submission process). If there has been a change in conflict of interest status for any of the authors, this must be indicated on the Title Page of the revision. Top | Back Response to Reviewers You must respond point by point to the reviewers’ specific comments and suggestions, indicating in each instance whether or how the manuscript has been changed. You can respond to the decision letter and comments from each reviewer by typing in the “Response to Decision Letter” window. The Editor in Chief may decide to send the revision for peer review. Further revision may be requested, in which case he will provide reviewer comments and other guidance. If the peer reviewers are dissatisfied with the revision and the manuscript is rejected, the Editor in Chief will explain that decision. If the manuscript is accepted, you will be notified of the expected date of publication. If revision of a submission is not received within 6 months from the last decision letter of the Editor in Chief, the Journal will assume that the authors have withdrawn the manuscript from further consideration. In cases where substantial new data are required, the Editor in Chief may grant an extension at his discretion. Top | Back Copy Editing Accepted manuscripts are copy edited for clarity, concision, grammar, consistency, and conformity with Journal style. The copyeditor may or may not contact you with questions about your manuscript. Matthew Mero Copy Editor 206-547-9580 For authors for whom English is not their native language, the Editor in Chief may require that they consult with a native English speaker or professional editor if he judges that poor English fails accurately to communicate the authors’ message. Top | Back Page Proofs Page proof will be sent by e-mail (PDF) to the corresponding author. Careful attention should be paid to the proofs, as the authors are responsible for all statements published in their work, including any changes made by the copy editor. The proof should be corrected by handwritten notes in the margins and returned to the Editorial Office within 48 hours by fax or express mail. Modification to proofs should be limited to minor and typographical errors only. An offprint order form is e-mailed with the page proofs. The corresponding author will receive a complimentary copy of the issue containing his or her article after publication. Top | Back Copyright Upon publication of an article, a statement transferring copyright to Daedalus Enterprises Inc (American Association for Respiratory Care) will be sent to the Corresponding Author for signature. The signed form should be returned to the editorial office along with the corrected page proof. By law, employees of the federal government cannot transfer copyright ownership; any author who is a federal employee should note this on the title page. No material published in RESPIRATORY CARE may be reprinted without written permission. For permission contact: Sara Forgy Permissions Editor 972 406 4667 Fax 972 484 6010 forgy@aarc.org Editorial Board RESPIRATORY CARE Editorial Board Editor in Chief David J Pierson MD FAARC Associate Editors Richard D Branson RRT FAARC University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Charles G Durbin Jr MD FAARC University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts Neil R MacIntyre MD FAARC Duke University Durham, North Carolina James K Stoller MD The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio Editorial Board Alexander B Adams MPH RRT FAARC Regions Hospital St Paul, Minnesota Thomas A Barnes EdD RRT FAARC Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts Joshua O Benditt MD University of Washington Seattle, Washington Craig Patrick Black PhD RRT University of Toledo Toledo , Ohio Lluis L Blanch MD PhD Hospital de Sabadell Sabadell, Spain Robert L Chatburn RRT FAARC University Hospitals of Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio Ira M Cheifetz MD FAARC Duke University Durham, North Carolina Steven A Deem MD University of Washington Seattle, Washington Rajiv Dhand MD University Missouri-Columbia Columbia, Missouri Patrick J Dunne MEd RRT FAARC Health Care Productions Fullerton, California Scott K Epstein MD Tufts University Boston, Massachusetts James B Fink MSc RRT FAARC Aerogen Inc Mountain View, California John E Heffner MD Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Robert M Kacmarek PhD RRT FAARC Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts Richard H Kallet MSc RRT FAARC University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California Lucy Kester MBA RRT FAARC The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio Max Kirmse MD University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Mohrendorf, Germany Marin H Kollef MD Washington University St Louis, Missouri Constantine A Manthous MD Bridgeport Hospital Bridgeport, Connecticut John J Marini MD University of Minnesota St Paul, Minnesota Shelley C Mishoe PhD RRT FAARC Medical College of Georgia Augusta, Georgia Timothy R Myers RRT Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Cleveland, Ohio Steven B Nelson MSc RRT FAARC Mayo Pulmonary Services Rochester, Minnesota Marcy F Petrini PhD University of Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi Bruce K Rubin MD MBA MEngr FAARC Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina Catherine SH Sassoon MD University of California Irvine Long Beach, California John W Shigeoka MD VA Medical Center Salt Lake City, Utah Eric J Stern MD University of Washington Seattle, Washington Teresa A Volsko MHHS RRT FAARC Advanced Health Systems Inc Hudson, Ohio Jeffrey J Ward MEd RRT Mayo Medical School Rochester, Minnesota Robert L Wilkins PhD RRT FAARC Loma Linda University Loma Linda, California Section Editors Jon Nilsestuen PhD RRT FAARC Ken Hargett RRT Graphics Corner Patricia Ann Doorley MSc RRT Charles G Durbin Jr MD FAARC Test Your Radiologic Skill Charles G Irvin PhD Gregg L Ruppel MEd RRT RPFT FAARC PFT Corner Joshua O Benditt MD Teaching Case of the Month