Each year a highlight of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Respiratory Care, the RESPIRATORY CARE OPEN FORUM, provides a platform for the reporting and discussion of some of the clinical studies, method and device evaluations, and case reports completed by members and friends during the previous year. During the 1991 OPEN FORUM in Atlanta, Georgia, December 7-10, more than 100 papers will be presented—clustered into 14 minisymposia. The abstracts of those papers are published here, sequenced as they will be presented. An index of the authors appears on Page 1326, with Presenters designated by boldface type.
A 1991 study studied this question.