Update in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Evidence Published in 2010

This Update summarizes studies published in 2010 that the authors consider highly relevant to the practice of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Topics include anticholinergic therapy in asthma, identification of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are at risk for exacerbations, pulmonary vasodilator therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, tuberculosis testing, tyrosine kinase inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer, early palliative care and cancer survival, outcomes of critical illness, sedatives and neuromuscular blockade in critically ill patients, interventions and monitoring in patients with shock, and management of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.