Respiratory Care: Find Articles

Consider these other search words when looking up information on Respiratory Care:

• "Respiratory system" and diagnosis
• A specific disease like ARDS
• Lungs and disease and diagnosis
• "Pulmonary disease" and diagnosis
• Ventilation and disease
• Ventilation and technique*

Selected list of Respiratory Care journals available online at the Dwight Marvin library:

Selected list of Medical journals available online at the Dwight Marvin library:

• To get app:  Go to one of the database listed below
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on iPhone and Android Apps. 
• Enter your email address to send yourself instructions, a key and a link to the app.

• CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

• Used by medical professionals world-wide for the most up-to-date medical information
• Best to use if looking for the more specific technical information about a disease, treatment or clinical trial
• Search by MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) for best results
• Some results will overlap with CINAHL

• Located at www.pubmed.gov.  The same as MedLine with Full Text but the screen and searching features are different. 
• Available freely anywhere. 

Differences between PubMed, MEDLINE and PMC

What is the Grey Literature?

In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications.

They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials:

• reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.)
• theses, conference proceedings
• technical specifications and standards
• non-commercial translations
• bibliographies
• technical and commercial documentation
• official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents

Source:  The New York Academy of Medicine, http://www.greylit.org/about