Out of the Blue: An AJRCCM Podcast

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.

A conversation between Drs. Eddy Fan and Nitin Seam as they discuss the strong recommendations made in the important Clinical Practice Guideline published on mechanical ventilation in adults with ARDS as well as the areas of controversy or uncertainty.

Dr. John Fleetham speaks with Dr. Abd Tahrani to discuss his article Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Retinopathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study.

Dr. Nitin Seam sits down to talk about the future of the Blue Journal with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jadwiga Wedzicha and Deputy Editor Dr. Laurent Brochard.

Dr. John Fleetham sits down with Drs. Ayas and Bhattacharjee to discuss their editorial on sleep disordered breathing.

In celebration of the AJRCCM’s 100 year anniversary, Dr. Trish Kritek sits down with Laurent Brochard to discuss the past, present, and future of critical care medicine.

In celebration of the AJRCCM’s 100 year anniversary, Dr. John Fleetham sits down with Dr. Peter Calverley to discuss contributions the blue journal has made to the advancement of physiological research of COPD.

Dr. Loren Denlinger and Nitin Seam discuss the results of SARP-3 , a multi-center cohort study of adults and children with severe asthma. Dr. Denlinger describes the factors that were found to predict exacerbation-prone asthma.

Dr. Trish Kritek is joined by Dr. Todd Rice to discuss his article “Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in the Intensive Care Unit: The SALT Randomized Trial”.

Blue Journal Editor Dr. Jadwiga Wedzicha joins Dr. Nitin Seam to discuss the newly published 2017 GOLD report. Dr. Wedzicha explains the major updates in the report regarding both diagnosis and management of patients with COPD.

Host Dr. Trish Kritek is joined by Dr. Punkaj Gupta to discuss the effectiveness of 24/7 in-house coverage on children suffering from critical illness.

Host Dr. John Fleetham is joined by Dr. Brad Edwards to discuss his study’s findings that OA therapy improves the upper-airway collapsibility under passive and active conditions.

Nitin Seam discusses the results of the IMPACT trial with study author Ralf Eberhardt and author of a related editorial, Nick Hopkinson.

COPD expert Bartolome Celli joins Nitin Seam to discuss an analysis done by the COPD clinical biomarker consortium regarding the use of 6 minute walk distance as part of study enrollment as well as study outcome based on data from 11 clinical studies.

Dr. Nitin Seam is joined by Drs. Carolyn Calfee and John Marshall to continue the discussion on developing a new Sepsis definition. Listen in as they discuss the observations made in Dr. Calfee’s editorial.

In this week’s podcast, Dr. Trish Kritek is joined by Drs. Derek Angus and Christiane Hartog as they debate whether it is time for a new sepsis definition.

In the latest AJRCCM podcast, editor Trish Kritek talks to Drs. Marc Moss and Carol Hodgson about whether an intensive PT program would significantly improve long-term physical functional performance when compared to a standard-of-care PT program.

In this week’s installment of the AJRCCM Discussion Podcast, Dr. Nitin Seam is joined Drs. Peter Lange and Jadwiga Wedzicha as they discuss whether blood eosinophil levels serves as a useful biomarker predicting COPD exacerbation.

Dr. Nitin Seam discusses the novel findings of a study following a cohort of 2,865 patients with baseline polysomnography and clinical follow-up with study first author Dr. Sogol Javaheri and Blue Journal Associate Editor Dr. Najib Ayas.