Useful Links

• Guides:
• Other societies:
• Databases and information sites:
• Education:
• Academic institutions:
• Journals
• Respiratory Equipment Manufacturers

Guides:

• Spirometer Users' and Buyers' Guide

Other societies:

• Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Association of Australia
• American Association for Respiratory Care
• American College of Chest Physicians (ACCA)
• American Lung Association
• American Thoracic Society
• American Sleep Apnea Association
• American Sleep Disorders Association
• Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
• Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (The UK equivalent of ANZSRS)
• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• Australian Medical Association
• Australasian Sleep Association
• Australasian Sleep Technologists Association
• Australian Society for Medical Research
• British Thoracic Society
• Canadian Thoracic Society
• Dutch Society of Pulmonary Function Technologists
• European Respiratory Society
• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHCBI)
• NZ Clinical Physiologists Registration Board
• The Association of Polysomnographic Technologists
• The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
• The Australian Lung Foundation - LungNet
• The Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists
• Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Databases and information sites:

• IOC COMMISSIONS > MEDICAL
• Adonis CD-Rom/Multimedia article retrieval & delivery service
• Allergist Immunologist Medical News Journals Daily
• ERS reference equation working party
• The National Asthma Community Grants Directory
• Health Communication Network - Directory of Australian Health on the Web
• Medline - free Medline searching (including PubMed)
• National Library of Medicine
• Respiratory Education and Information Service
• Complete archive of the U.K. Royal Society journals
• Sleep Medicine Homepage
• The Lancet
• UpToDate

Education:

• Endorsed Spirometry Courses
• Lung Health Promotion Centre at The Alfred
• Philip Quanjer's spirometry website
• University of Western Australia,
  School of Paediatrics and Child Health Graduate Certificates in
  Paediatric Sleep and Respiratory Science

Academic institutions:

• Charles Sturt University - School of Biomedical Sciences - postgraduate and undergraduate courses in respiratory science
• Griffith University - School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science - postgraduate courses in Clinical Physiology
• Swinburne University of Technology – School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering

Journals

• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
• Allergy and Clinical Immunology International
• Chest
• European Respiratory Journal
• Respirology Journal
• The Journal of Applied Physiology
• The Journal of Physiology
• The Medical Journal of Australia
• Thorax

Respiratory Equipment Manufacturers

• MedGraphics
• Micromedical
• Ohmeda
• Radiometer
• Sensormedics
• Technipro
• Vacumed
• Vitalograph