Critical Care

Host: Xavier Soler, MD, PhD

Guest: Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS, FCCP

To help us address the current lack of awareness of uncontrolled or symptomatic asthma in all stages of the disease, Dr. Xavier Soler is joined by Dr. Nicola Hanania, Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Director of the Airway Clinical Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Together, they’ll discuss how we can better recognize and treat our patients with uncontrolled asthma.

A non-promotional, non-CME educational program brought to you by CHEST in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: David E. Griffith, MD

Guest: Amy Levinger, MSN, FNP-C

Guest: Timothy Aksamit, MD

The care team supporting a patient with mycobacterium avium complex, or MAC, lung disease is just as important as the treatment itself. Joining Dr. David Griffith to discuss how we can provide optimal treatment using established guideline-based strategies all while protecting patients’ quality of life are Dr. Tim Aksamit and pulmonary nurse practitioner Amy Levinger.

For more information and to access clinician & patient tools about NTM and MAC Lung Disease, click here to visit the CHEST Foundation NTM webpage.

This program is produced in partnership with the American College of CHEST Physicians, and is sponsored by Insmed Incorporated.

Host: Tom Corbridge, MD, FCCP

Guest: Matt Hegewald, MD FCCP

With uncontrolled asthma placing such a tremendous burden on our patients and our society, how can we use the latest treatment guidelines to help alleviate that burden? Dr. Matt Hegewald is here to talk about the new and emerging guideline-based treatments for uncontrolled asthma, like long-acting muscarinic antagonists.

A non-promotional, non-CME educational program brought to you by CHEST in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: Tom Corbridge, MD, FCCP

Guest: Navitha Ramesh, MD, FCCP

Now that long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonists (LAMAs) have entered the scene, Dr. Tom Corbridge is joined by Dr. Navitha Ramesh, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at UPMC, to review some patient cases demonstrating how LAMAs may be changing the way we approach step-up treatment for some patients with asthma.

A non-promotional, non-CME educational program brought to you by CHEST in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: Megan Carreon, MHA, RRT

Guest: Amy Levinger, MSN, FNP-C

Guest: Timothy Aksamit, MD

There are numerous factors that contribute to an overall wellness of patients with of NTM refractory MAC lung disease. Listen in as Megan Carreon, Assistant Professor with the Division of Respiratory Care at UT Health San Antonio, Texas, sits down with pulmonary nurse practitioner Amy Levinger from NYU Langone Health and Dr. Tim Aksamit, Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic.

For more information and to access clinician & patient tools about NTM and MAC Lung Disease, click here to visit the CHEST Foundation NTM webpage.

This program is produced in partnership with the American College of CHEST Physicians, and is sponsored by Insmed Incorporated.

Guest: Anil Agarwal, MD

How can healthcare professionals at the forefront of the pandemic protect the vascular integrity of COVID-19 patients undergoing acute dialysis procedures? Here to walk us through his process step by step is Dr. Anil Agarwal from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Published August 19, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD

Guest: Anil Agarwal, MD

The emergence of blood clotting and clogged equipment for vascular procedures is a more recent—and troubling—phenomenon that’s emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tune in as Dr. Anil Agarwal from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center discusses these two challenges and strategies for overcoming them.

Published August 13, 2020

Host: Andrew Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN

Guest: William W. Li, MD

How do the lungs of healthy patients differ from the lungs of patients with COVID-19 or the flu? That’s the exact question Dr. William Li wanted to answer, and now, he’s sharing the results of his study that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Published August 12, 2020

Guest: Bret Nelson, MD

When it comes to using ultrasound at the point of care in the setting of COVID-19, what do we need to keep in mind? Here to share his five key considerations is Dr. Bret Nelson, Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Chief of the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Division at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Published June 5, 2020

Guest: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Against the backdrop of a global push to get more ventilators and other critical gear into the hands of healthcare professionals, some clinicians are opting out of using ventilators to treat their COVID-19 patients as several hospitals have reported unusually high death rates. Listen in as Dr. Charles Turck explains.

Published June 5, 2020