“…(
35
,
36
) The use of ventilatory support and
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was the subject of a study conducted in the city of São
Paulo (
37
) and of an editorial authored by Professor Alan Morris of Salt Lake
City, Utah. (
38
) There were three publications on weaning from mechanical
ventilation: an original article on weaning protocols conducted in the Brazilian state of
Rio Grande do Sul, (
39
) ; a review article on predictive
parameters (
40
) ; and an editorial by Professor Martin Tobin of Chicago,
Illinois. (
41
) Other emerging areas, such as pulmonary circulation, smoking,
environmental exposure, bronchoscopy, and sleep-disordered breathing, were also
addressed.…”