Dr. John Fleetham and Prof. Daiana Stolz, MD, MPH discuss the findings of Prof. Stolz’s paper "Intensified therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and LABA at the onset of URTI to prevent COPD exacerbations".

Please listen to our podcast editors give their thoughts on some of the most interesting papers related to pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in 2017.

Recent evidence suggests that Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) may be a risk factor for developing Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. John Fleetham and author Ricardo Osorio discuss.

Dr. John Fleetham and Dr. Doug McEvoy discuss Dr. McEvoy’s paper on the effect of OSA treatment on renal function in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Nitin Seam is joined by Drs. Vincent Liu and Mervyn Singer to discuss Dr. Liu's paper "The Timing of Early Antibiotics and Hospital Mortality in Sepsis”

Dr. Trish Kritek discusses the findings of this study with lead author Judith E. Nelson.

In this podcast, we review a comparison of outcomes in patients 65-74 years old from SEER-Medicare and NLST datasets in stage I lung cancer with study first author, Dr. Nichole Tanner as well as Dr. Neal Navani.

Disclaimer: audio for this episode is slightly distorted; we apologize for any inconvenience. Dr. Trish Kritek discusses the findings of this study with authors Biren Kamdar and Dale Needham.

Dr. John Fleetham sits down with Dr. Kennth Olivier to discuss the findings of his paper published in the AJRCCM this past March

In part two of the discussion, Drs. Eddy Fan and Nitin Seam discuss the clinical practice guideline recommendations as well as unanswered questions regarding high PEEP, recruitment maneuvers and ECMO in ARDS.