CHEST Pulse

Martha Billings, MD, MSc, and Renea Jablonski, MD, compare their experiences in managing outpatient pulmonary clinics as they transition to remote telemedicine care, including triaging patients in clinic with suspected COVID-19 symptoms and reducing staff exposure, treatment management of outpatients with COVID-19, staffing logistics during transition and quarantines, and recommendations to help their peers prepare their clinics. (Originally recorded March 19, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Steven Simpson, MD, FCCP, talks to a frontline clinician about her experience managing a COVID-19 case that was caught days after the patient was admitted to the hospital. The patient’s condition deteriorated, and the patient was transferred to the ICU and mechanically ventilated for ARDS, but COVID-19 testing was not performed initially. Once tested, results were positive for SARS COV-2, and airborne and contact precautions were put in place. (Originally recorded March 19, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Bhakti Patel, MD, interviews Mangala Narasimhan, DO, FCCP, about her experience ramping up to manage patients with COVID-19. Dr. Narasimhan advises physicians to double the number of patients they’re expecting and to have a plan for protecting personnel during intubations. (Originally recorded March 16, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.