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This week we are absolutely thrilled to be launching a new series here at Pulm PEEPs . This is the first episode in our new Fellows’ Case Files series. The purpose of this series is to highlight the incredible clinical work that is done by pulmonary and critical care fellows everywhere, share fascinating cases from across the world, and assemble a diverse network of pulmonary and critical ca...

Today on Pulm PEEPs , we are joined by two pioneers in the field of post-intensive care outcomes and delirium research. Drs. Dale Needham and Wes Ely talk to us all about the Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and cover everything from how it was first recognized, to the impact it has, and, most importantly, what we can do to prevent it. This is a huge topic in the field of critical care and we&#...

This week on Pulm PEEPs , we are continuing our Top Consults series with a discussion on the work-up and diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension. See our prior Radiology Rounds on signs of PAH on CT scan , and listen to our follow-up episode on right heart catheterizations for some background before this episode… or dive right in! We’ll cover everything from history and physical, to recent...

We are extremely excited for the third and final installment in our Pulm PEEPs and ATS Clinical Problems Assembly collaborative series on COPD. Today, we are joined by Drs. Jessica Bon , Michael Lester, and Niru Putcha to discuss severe COPD management and the role of lung volume reduction procedures. If you missed the first two parts of our series, make sure to check out episode 1 on COPD diagnos...

We are thrilled here @PulmPEEPS to have our first episode with one of our new Associate Editors Luke Hedrick, and our first nephrology consultant Jeff William. Luke will walk us through an interesting case presentation, and we will discuss an approach to severe weakness in our patient in the ICU. Meet Our Guests Jeff William is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth...

This week on Pulm PEEPs we are resuming our Top Consults series with a common pulmonary presentation that can range from incidental to life-threatening: pneumothorax. We will talk through three different cases and review assessments and common management strategies. Make sure to subscribe to our show wherever you listen to podcasts, rate and review us, and visit our website to catch up on all our...

We are thrilled here at Pulm PEEPs to have our first episode with our new Associate Editor Tess Litchman . Tess will walk us through an interesting case presentation of hemoptysis and we’ll use the approach from our Top Consults episode on hemoptysis to come to a key pulmonary and critical care diagnosis. Meet Our Guests Tess Litchman is a second-year internal medicine resident at Beth Israe...

Today we have episode two in our Pulm PEEPs and ATS Clinical Problems Assembly collaborative series on COPD. We are joined by Dr. Brad Drummond and Dr. Allison Lambert to discuss COPD exacerbations. Make sure to check out episode 1 in the series and stay tuned for more great content. Meet Our Guests Brad Drummond is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UNC School of Medicine. He is also the Assoc...

Today we have a special edition of Pulm PEEPs ! We are revisiting our Radiology Rounds from 4 weeks ago to dive further into Right Heart Catheterizations and how to interpret them. We are joined by two experts in the field, Allison Tsao and Stephen Mathai . For a reminder, in that Radiology Rounds , we met a woman in her 50s with GERD, Raynaud’s, and multiple positive auto-antibodies (+ ANA...

The Pulm PEEPs are extremely excited today to be launching our series on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in partnership with the ATS Clinical Problems Assembly . We are joined by Dr. Bob Wise and Dr. Wassim Labaki to discuss the classification and initial workup of COPD, and management strategies from inhalers to pulmonary rehabilitation. Make sure to listen today and in the coming weeks for...

This week the Pulm PEEPs , David Furfaro and Kristina Montemayor , are joined by three outstanding critical care doctors and medical educators to discuss the evaluation of patients with undifferentiated shock. We cover everything from the basics about defining shock, to advanced POCUS techniques to clarify the etiology of shock. Listen today and let us know your favorite technique for evaluating s...

We are extremely excited to introduce our new Pulm PEEPs Meet the Patients series. Teaching and learning medicine is an incredible journey, and the goal is always to be improving patient care. Patients are our best teachers about the diseases we encounter, so the goal of this series is to spend more time with patients with pulmonary disease and with those who have been critically ill. For our firs...

This week, we have another great case episode on Pulm PEEPs ! We are joined by Emily Fridenmaker who helps us think through a fascinating case presenation. Meet Our Guests Emily Fridenmaker is a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine fellow at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She went to medical school at West Virginia school of medicine and did her internal medicine residency...

This week we are absolutely thrilled to be joined by three Interstitial Lung Disease experts to discuss the workup and differential for a patient with a new presentation of suspected ILD. This is also our first episode in a collaboration between the Pulm PEEPs and the American Thoracic Society Clinical Problems Assembly . In a series of episodes, we will be joined by pulmonary experts from around...

Dave Furfaro , Kristina Montemayor , and Ansa Razzaq are back to tackle another pulmonary case! Listen in and solve the case yourself, and we’ll share some diagnostic pearls along the way. Let us know any additional thoughts on Twitter. Patient Presentation The is patient is 57-year-old man with hypertension and asthma who presents with dyspnea and left-sided pleuritic chest pain for 3 weeks...

We are excited to bring you another episode in our Pulm PEEPs Top Consults series! Kristina Montemayor and David Furfaro , are joined by Sandy Zaeh to discuss the assessment and management of a patient with a severe asthma exacerbation. We’ll follow a consult patient from the emergency department to the ICU, and cover everything from the physiology of pulsus paradoxus in asthma to how to man...

This week on Pulm PEEPs, Dave Furfaro and Kristina Montemayor are joined by experts in the field of critical care medicine and ARDS to discuss all things PEEP! Drs. Roy Brower, Sarina Sahetya , Todd Rice , and Elias Baedorf-Kassis discuss everything ranging from PEEP basics to their approach to optimizing PEEP in patients with ARDS. Meet Our Guests Roy Brower is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Ho...

The Pulm PEEPs are joined again by Natalie West to discuss a patient who presented with a chronic, productive cough. Listen in today as we work through our differential diagnosis, interpret basic pulmonary testing, and share our clinical reasoning along the way. We have some fantastic diagnostic and treatment teaching points, so once you’ve solved the case check out the takeaways and infogra...

Pulm PEEPs hosts, Kristina Montemayor and David Furfaro , bring our first episode in our Top Consults series. In this series, we will bring in experts to work through the most common pulmonary and critical care consults. Whether you are the consulting physician, or a pulmonologist responding to the page, these episodes are geared to give you all the information you need to care for your patients!...

The Pulm PEEPs are excited to bring our first mystery case! Kristina Montemayor and Dave Furfaro hear a fascinating case presentation from Pulm PEEPs senior editor Ansa Razzaq. Join us as we work through this case together to come to a diagnosis, and share our thought process along the way. Come back to these show notes afterward, or once you’ve solved the case yourself, for some key teachin...

The Pulm PEEPs ( Kristina Montemayor and Dave Furfaro ) host a panel of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) providers to discuss the current state of the disease, recent advances in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator therapies, and the evolving faces and voices of Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CFTR gene that affect...

We are excited to introduce Pulm PEEPs to the world! Our mission is to provide learners of all levels with multiple formats to engage in pulmonary and critical care education that you can access anytime. In addition to podcast episodes, we will be sharing helpful infographics and guides to shed light on topics throughout pulmonary and critical care from the bread-and-butter to the esoteric and com...