Critical Care

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO
Guest: Steve R. Ommen, MD

Dr. Steven Ommen, a cardiologist and medical director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at Mayo Clinic and the chair of the 2020 AHA/ACC Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Guideline Writing Committee, sits down with Dr. Jennifer Caudle to discuss the committee’s updated guidelines.

For more information about referring a patient to Mayo Clinic, please visit mayoclinic.org.

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH
Guest: Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA

Previously thought to mostly affect men, heart disease puts an equal or greater number of women at risk. What do we need to know about protecting them from this life-threatening condition? Dr. Nanette Wenger, a Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, joins us to discuss the prevalence of heart disease among women.

Host: Timothy Aksamit, MD
Guest: Amy Levinger, MSN, FNP-C
Guest: David E. Griffith, MD

The prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease in the United States has almost doubled between 2008 and 2015. But despite this increase, its diagnosis can often be delayed, which is why pulmonary nurse practitioner Amy Levinger and Dr. David Griffith join Dr. Tim Aksamit to discuss the diagnostic criteria, tools that can help us make a timely diagnosis of NTM lung disease, and more.

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: 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.

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.

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

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO
Guest: Todd Askew

What’s being done to address the range of issues like the PPE shortage, lack of testing, and financial shortfalls encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here to share his team’s advocacy efforts to help tackle these and other challenges is Todd Askew, the American Medical Association's Senior Vice President of Advocacy.

Host: Tom Corbridge, MD, FCCP
Guest: Gary T. Ferguson, MD, F.C.C.P

Listen in as Dr. Tom Corbridge and Dr. Gary Ferguson discuss the challenges physicians and patients face when there is an underreporting of COPD symptoms. Together, they’ll also explore the ways physicians can overcome these obstacles and give their patients the appropriate treatment.

This episode is supported in part by an unrestricted/independent medical educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Randy Young, MD

Here to give us a firsthand look into how ICUs across the country are confronting the COVID-19 pandemic head-on is Dr. Randy Young, a critical care doctor who’s treating COVID-19 patients in the mid-Atlantic area. Dr. Young joins Mario Nacinovich to discuss what he has seen during the pandemic and how the ICU is responding to both expected and unexpected challenges.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Wes Ely, MD, MPH

After surviving a critical illness, many patients look forward to their lives returning to normal, but unfortunately, that’s not always possible.

To uncover the far-reaching impacts of delirium, Dr. Matt Birnholz is joined by Dr. Wes Ely, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine which focuses on improving the lives and care of patients in the intensive care unit to ensure both physical and cognitive rehabilitation.

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO

Tune in as Dr. Jennifer Caudle provides an update on suicide rates in the United States.

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP

Palliative and hospice care both have very important roles in healthcare, but unfortunately, they are often overlooked as resources.

Dr. Brian McDonough is joined by Chief Medical Officer of Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice Dr. Stephen Goldfine, who offers his perspective on the stigma surrounding these two areas of healthcare and recommendations on how to make the conversation easier for you and your patients.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD
Guest: Bob Mitchell

Quite suddenly, Bob Mitchell became very sick. He would endure three near-fatal episodes of ventricular tachycardia due to a heart muscle comprised of 54% scar tissue, as well as heart surgeries, two harrowing months of waiting on the transplant list for a new heart on life-supporting IV drips (during which time a malignant tumor was detected in his kidney), partial nephrectomy surgery to remove the cancer, another month of waiting, a 12-hour heart and kidney transplant surgery, and 100 days on life support in four different hospitals.

Host Dr. Maurice Pickard talks with novelist Bob Mitchell, author of Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death about his inspiring story of the triumph of hope in the face of the direst of circumstances.