2 For this reason, patients with certain respiratory conditions who intend to travel by air should plan their trip well in advance. 1 Respiratory problems constitute the second most common emergency on commercial flights, after syncope or pre-syncope. See moreДЄccording to data from the IATA ( International Air Transport Association), which includes 240 airlines responsible for 84% of world air traffic, 2980 million passengers traveled by air in 2012. The Journal expresses the voice of the Spanish Respiratory Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) as well as that of other scientific societies such as the Latin American Thoracic Society (ALAT) and the Iberian American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AICT).ДЄuthors are also welcome to submit their articles to the Journal's open access companion title, Open Respiratory Archives. Furthermore, the Journal is also present in Twitter and Facebook.

Manuscripts will be submitted electronically using the following web site:, link which is also accessible through the main web page of Archivos de Bronconeumologia.ДЄccess to any published article, in either language, is possible through the Journal's web page as well as from PubMed, Science Direct, and other international databases. Translators working for the Journal are in charge of the corresponding translations. Therefore, the submission of manuscripts written in either Spanish or English is welcome. The Journal is published monthly both in Spanish and English.

It is a monthly Journal that publishes a total of 12 issues and a few supplements, which contain articles belonging to the different sections.ДЄll the manuscripts received in the Journal are evaluated by the Editors and sent to expert peer-review while handled by the Editor and/or an Associate Editor from the team. Other types of articles such as reviews, editorials, a few special articles of interest to the society and the editorial board, scientific letters, letters to the Editor, and clinical images are also published in the Journal. Archivos de Bronconeumologia is a scientific journal that preferentially publishes prospective original research articles whose content is based upon results dealing with several aspects of respiratory diseases such as epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinics, surgery, and basic investigation.

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