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Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is an international journal publishing research on lung health and disease, asthma, COPD, interventional respirology, critical care and sleep disorded breathing.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is the official journal of the Canadian Thoracic Society. It is the only peer-reviewed Canadian journal to focus on lung health.

Apart from reporting recent studies/trials and various educational materials and guidelines, the journal serves as a means of communication with members of the Canadian Thoracic Society, including the Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals, and features regular updates on society initiatives, issues, and successes.

Topics covered include:

  • adult and pediatric lung health and disease, including asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, pulmonary dysplasia, interstitial lung disease, acute lung injury, sepsis, pulmonary vascular disease, tuberculosis, HIV and other pulmonary infectious diseases;
  • exercise physiology and testing;
  • mechanical ventilation and critical care;
  • interventional respirology;
  • lung imaging;
  • pulmonary function standards and testing;
  • environmental and occupational diseases
  • rehabilitation medicine
  • sleep disordered breathing.

The journal will be of interest to all readers involved with respiratory health/disease management, particularly adult and pediatric respirologists; critical care physicians; sleep medicine specialists; respiratory therapists; respiratory nurses; primary care, internal medicine, and family practice physicians; thoracic surgeons; allergists and immunologists; radiologists; cardiologists; and ear nose and throat specialists.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine accepts the following types of papers: original articles, image feature, short overview of a key question, clinical respiratory review, state of the art review, clinical pathological conference, case studies and editorials, in addition to manuscripts on history of respiratory medicine in Canada.

The journal publishes the abstracts from the annual Canadian Respiratory Conference and is open to publishing proceedings of annual meetings, specialized symposia or workshops held by any society/organization involved in lung, sleep, and critical care medicine.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine operates a single anonymized peer review policy.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

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