CHEST Journal Podcasts

CHEST social media editors Christopher L. Carroll, MD, FCCP, and Deep Ramachandran, MBBS, join CHEST Managing Editor Vicki Tedeschi for a special podcast discussing social media and how physicians can use these tools for professional development. 

Francois Stephan, MD, PhD, and Theodore E. Warkentin, MD, join CHEST Podcast Editor, D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the results of the article by Stephan et al on the issues of diagnosing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in a cardiothroacic surgical ICU.

Dirk-Jan Slebos, MD, PhD, and Jim Egan, MD, join CHEST Podcast Editor, D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the results of a study by Slebos et al using the experimental device, the lung volume reduction coil in patients with severe emphysema.

E. Wesley Ely, MD, FCCP, and Yoanna Skrobik, MD, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, in another Point/Counterpoint debate: Should Benzodiazepines Be Avoided in Mechanically Ventilated Patients? (36:30)

Dr. Pyng Lee, MD, FCCP, and Richard W. Light, MD, FCCP, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP to debate this month's Point/Counterpoint Editorials: Should thoracoscopic talc pleurdodesis be the first choice management for malignant pleural effusion.(44:57)

Constantine I. Vardavas, MD, MPH, PhD, Susan Murin, MD, FCCP, and Mark V. Avdalovic, MD, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the effects of eletronic cigarettes and the many unknown factors about this method of nicotine delivery.

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Rebecca M. Baron, MD, and Saumel Z. Goldhaber, MD, FCCP, join CHEST to expand on their debate published in the May 2012 issue of CHEST: Should coagulpathy be repaired prior to central venous line insertion. (36:58)

Anant R. C. Patel, MBBS, and S. F. Paul Man, MD, FCCP, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the importance of ischemic heart disease as a comorbidity of COPD. 

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Anthony W. Kim, MD, FCCP, and Frank C. Detterbeck, MD, FCCP, experts in the staging of lung cancer, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the new lung cancer staging tool they developed launched on the Web with the American College of Chest Physicians, in partnership with the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale.

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Gordon H. Guyatt, MD, FCCP, and Ian T. Nathanson, MD, FCCP, join CHEST Podcast Editor D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, to discuss the methodology used in the development of the recommendations within the Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thromboprophylaxis, 9th Edition: American College of Chest Physcians Evidence-Based Guidelines.

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