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The Pulm PEEPs podcast will be providing regular episodes delving into the world of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Our mission with this platform is to provide learners of all levels multiple formats to engage in pulmonary and critical care education that you can access anytime, anywhere. We will be bringing you case reports of classic teaching cases that we have encountered accompanied by infographics on high-yield points from each case, roundtable chats with experts and leaders in the field of PCCM, and series of Top ICU and Top Pulmonary consults.

  1. NOV 12

    Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Treatment: RFJC - INPULSIS

    Our episode today is diving into a broader initiative to discuss the management of interstitial lung disease. In this episode we will be talking about the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis through the lens of a journal club discussion of the NEJM 2014 INPULSIS trial. Today’s episode is hosted by Pulm PEEPs Associate Editor Luke Hedrick. Meet Our Guests Robert Wharton is a recurring guest on Pulm PEEPs as a part of our Rapid Fire Journal Club Series. He completed his internal medicine residency at Mt. Sinai in New York City, and is currently a first year pulmonary and critical care fellow at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Nicole Ng is an Assistant Profess of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, and is the Associate Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program for the Mount Sinai National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute. Article and Reference Today the discussion of IPF treatment centers around the 2014 NEJM publication of the INPULSIS trials investigating the efficacy of Nintedanib for the treatment of IPF. Richeldi L, du Bois RM, Raghu G, Azuma A, Brown KK, Costabel U, Cottin V, Flaherty KR, Hansell DM, Inoue Y, Kim DS, Kolb M, Nicholson AG, Noble PW, Selman M, Taniguchi H, Brun M, Le Maulf F, Girard M, Stowasser S, Schlenker-Herceg R, Disse B, Collard HR; INPULSIS Trial Investigators. Efficacy and safety of nintedanib in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. N Engl J Med. 2014 May 29;370(22):2071-82. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1402584. Epub 2014 May 18. Erratum in: N Engl J Med. 2015 Aug 20;373(8):782. doi: 10.1056/NEJMx150012. PMID: 24836310. Infographic Summary of Key Discussion Points Background and Challenges in ILD Treatment: Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), particularly idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), had historically poor treatment outcomes, with numerous therapies showing either no benefit or even harm. Prior to 2014, effective treatments were extremely limited, and lung transplantation was the primary management option. INPULSIS I and II Trials: These 2014 trials examined nintedanib, an antifibrotic drug initially tested for cancer, in patients with moderate IPF. The studies were well-structured, involving strict criteria to ensure accurate diagnoses and excluding younger patients or those with more advanced disease. Nintedanib’s Mechanism and Design of the Trials: Nintedanib acts by blocking multiple tyrosine kinases that mediate fibrotic growth factors. Patients were monitored over a year, with primary endpoints focusing on forced vital capacity (FVC) decline—a common surrogate measure for disease progression in ILD trials due to its correlation with survival. Outcomes: Both trials showed that nintedanib significantly reduced the rate of FVC decline compared to placebo, suggesting that it slowed disease progression. Secondary endpoints included reduced acute exacerbations (significant only in one trial) and minor improvements in quality of life, though these weren’t statistically or clinically significant. Adverse Effects: Nintedanib’s side effects included gastrointestinal issues (diarrhea, nausea, vomiting) and, less commonly, liver enzyme elevations and cardiovascular events. While post-marketing data suggested some improvements in tolerability, clinicians still monitor for these side effects closely. Application in Clinical Practice: The trials support nintedanib as an option for slowi...

    31 min

  2. OCT 24

    Fellows' Case Files: NYU

    We are joined today by two amazing educators from NYU for our latest Fellows’ Case Files Episode. Listen today as we go through a great case with some fantastic teaching points highlighted throughout the episode. Meet Our Guests Dr. Jeremy Grossman completed his Medicine-Pediatrics residency at Stony Brook Medicine where he was also a Chief Resident. He is currently a second-year PCCM fellow at NYU. Dr. Shari Brosnahan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and one of the Assistant Program Directors for the NYU Langone’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. Her clinical and research interests are focused on pulmonary embolism and thrombosis in critically ill patients. Case Presentation An 80-year-old male presents with shortness of breath. At home, his oxygen saturation was 82% on room air, improving only to 86% on 4L nasal cannula. Over the past month, he has experienced worsening symptoms, including a dry cough, fatigue, and difficulty speaking or ambulating due to shortness of breath at rest. He denies recent fever, sputum production, chest pain, or lower extremity swelling and presents to the ED for further evaluation. Key Learning Points 1.In any patient with a history of malignancy and hypoxia, clinicians should keep pulmonary tumor emboli (PTE) on the differential as early intervention may alter outcomes. 2.PTE contributes to hypoxia via mechanisms of mechanical obstruction of pulmonary arteries leading to shunting, VQ Mismatch, and in some cases pulmonary hypertension due to increased PVR. 3.A wedged aspirate can be used to diagnose PTE ante-mortem

    44 min

  3. OCT 8

    87. Live from CHEST 2024 – Black Angels with Maria Smilios

    Here at Pulm PEEPs we have always loved the CHEST Annual Meetings. We have enjoyed learning at them, reuniting with and meeting colleagues, and having conference specific episodes the past two years. This year, we had the opportunity to podcast live at CHEST 2024 and it was a real thrill! We talked to Maria Smilios about her wonderful book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. . The book covers a range of fascinating topics including how treatments for tuberculosis were developed, the successes and plights of Black nurses working in this endeavor, an exploration of health care in New York City, and a discussion of Racism and civil rights in American healthcare. We were also thrilled that Virginia Allen, the last surviving Black Angel is at the conference and her and her colleagues (posthumously) are receiving an honorary FCCP. Meet Our Guests Maria Smiios is a native New Yorker but completed her master of arts in religion and literature right here in Boston. She completed her masters at Boston University, where she was a Luce scholar, and taught in the religion and writing program. Through her work, she found a love for history, medicine and women’s narratives. While working at Springer Publishing as a science book editor, she learned about the story of the Black Angels and was determined to tell their story. She spent years deeply engaged in the lives and stories of those who were closest to these remarkable women.

    44 min

  4. SEP 27

    CHEST 2024 Preview

    We are excited to be back with our colleagues from CHEST to be previewing the CHEST 2024 Annual Meeting. CHEST his year is in Boston, MA from October 5th to October 9th. Listen in to hear about some great new features at CHEST this year, some old favorites, and to learn how to optimize your conference experience. See you all in two weeks! Meet Our Guests Sandhya Khurana is a  Professor of medicine at University of Rochester school of medicine and Director of the Mary Parkes Asthma Center. Her clinical and research interest is in asthma. She is the Vice-Program Chair for CHEST 2024 and will be the program Chair for CHEST 2025 next year in Chicago. Gabe Bosslet is the Program Chair for CHEST this year. In addition he is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also an Assistant Dean at IU, and the Director of Mentoring and Faculty Development for the Division Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Occupational Medicine. Huzaifah Salat is a clinician educator who is currently working as a consultant pulmonologist and intensivist at Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin. He completed his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

    37 min

  5. SEP 10

    85. Journal Club with BMJ Thorax – Airway Disease

    We are extremely excited today to announce a new collaboration with BMJ Thorax. Our mission at Pulm PEEPs is to disseminate and promote pulmonary and critical care education, and we highly value the importance of peer reviewed journals in this endeavor. Each month in BMJ Thorax, a journal club is published looking at high yield and impactful publications in pulmonary medicine. We will be putting out quarterly episodes in association with Thorax to discuss a journal club publication and synthesize four valuable papers. We hope you enjoy! Meet Our Guests Chris Turnbull is an Associate Editor for Education at Thorax. He is an Honorary Researcher and Respiratory Medicine Consultant at Oxford University Hospitals. In addition to his role as Associate Editor for Education at BMJ Thorax, he is also a prominent researcher in sleep-related breathing disorders.  Imran Howell is an Asthma Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford Journal Club Papers * Journal club article from Thorax * Blood eosinophil-guided oral prednisolone for COPD exacerbations in primary care in the UK (STARR2): a non-inferiority, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised controlled trial * Nutritional supplementation to prevent tuberculosis incidence in household contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India (RATIONS): a field-based, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial * The airway microbiome mediates the interaction between environmental exposure and respiratory health in humans * Respiratory syncytial virus infection during infancy and asthma during childhood in the USA (INSPIRE): a population-based, prospective birth cohort study To submit a journal club article of your own to Thorax, you can contact Chris directly – christopher.turnbull@ouh.nhs.uk To engage with Thorax, please use the social media channels (Twitter – @ThoraxBMJ; Facebook – Thorax.BMJ) and subscribe on your preferred platform, to get the latest episodes directly on your device each month.

    42 min

  6. AUG 30

    RFJC 14 - ARDS Series - Driving Pressure

    In this podcast episode, we continue our summer series reviewing landmark ARDS studies. Today, Dave and Luke discuss the Driving Pressure trial (published in NEJM in 2015) which evaluated the impact of driving pressure on survival in patients with ARDS. Article and Reference We are talking about the Driving Pressure trial today which evaluated the impact of driving pressure, as an independent variable, on survival in patients with ARDS. Amato MB, Meade MO, Slutsky AS, Brochard L, Costa EL, Schoenfeld DA, Stewart TE, Briel M, Talmor D, Mercat A, Richard JC, Carvalho CR, Brower RG. Driving pressure and survival in the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 19;372(8):747-55. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1410639. PMID: 25693014. Infographic

    23 min

  7. AUG 27

    RFJC 13 - ARDS Series - DEXA-ARDS

    In the penultimate episode in our ARDS Rapid Fire Journal Club Summer Series we are talking about the DEXA-ARDS trial (published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine in 2020). This trial evaluated the impact of dexamethasone in the treatment of ARDS.   Article and Reference Today we’re discussing the DEXA-ARDS trial published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine in 2020. This trial evaluated the impact of dexamethasone on mortality and duration of mechanical ventilation for patients with ARDS. Villar J, Ferrando C, Martínez D, Ambrós A, Muñoz T, Soler JA, Aguilar G, Alba F, González-Higueras E, Conesa LA, Martín-Rodríguez C, Díaz-Domínguez FJ, Serna-Grande P, Rivas R, Ferreres J, Belda J, Capilla L, Tallet A, Añón JM, Fernández RL, González-Martín JM; dexamethasone in ARDS network. Dexamethasone treatment for the acute respiratory distress syndrome: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Mar;8(3):267-276. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30417-5. Epub 2020 Feb 7. PMID: 32043986.   Infographic   Article Notes DEXA-ARDS; Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2020 DOI:10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30417-5 Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(19)30417-5 Background: ARDS is an intense inflammatory process without proven, specific pharmacotherapies. Previous work and a recent meta-analysis demonstrated improvements in inflammation, gas exchange, and ventilator and ICU liberation but did not adequately address mortality. Study Design (design, primary outcome, participants, etc) Design: investigator-initiated, multicenter, unblinded, randomized controlled trial in 17 academic ICUs in Spain, conducted from 3/2013 to 12/2018 Primary Outcome VFD at 28d Secondary: 60d mortality Actual duration of ventilation in ICU survivors ICU acquired infections Participants Inclusion ARDS with P/F 200 for 24hr on LTVV Exclusion: Already receiving steroids or immunosuppression CHF Severe COPD DNR Summary: Middle aged, mostly male patients with 24hr of moderate to severe ARDS receiving LPV without chronic heart or lung disease Like many ARDS trials, just over 3/4 of patients’ ARDS was caused by PNA or sepsis. Mean P/F was ~140 Intervention/Limitations N = 277, stratified by center and then randomized Intervention: dexamethasone 20mg qd for 5d followed by 10mg qd for 5d Stopped early for extubation before day 10 First dose given no more than 30 hours after P/F 200 Control: no placebo, just SOC All patients received LTVV Outcomes/Safety Power: with N = 314 (actual N = 277), 80% power to detect 2 additional VFD and 15% mortality reduction As an aside, this seems to be a theme in ICU trials: massively ambitious proposed benefits during power calculations and then under-enrolling for that power calculation ultimately resulting with a point estimate that favors the intervention but is not statistically significant. Efficacy: 60d mortality: 21% vs 36%, P = 0.0047 NNT of just 7! VFD at 28d: 12.3 vs 7.5,

    16 min

  8. AUG 22

    Fellows' Case Files: UMass Chan

    We have another great case in our Fellows’ Case Files coming today from UMass Chan. Listen in for a great discussion about a fascinating case with interesting physical exam and radiographic findings. Meet Our Guests Dr. Jen Kodela completed her residency training at UMass Memorial Medical Center and is currently a third year PCCM fellow at UMass Chan. Dr. Ariel McKenna completed her residency training at Maine Medical Center and is also currently a third year PCCM fellow at UMass Chan. Dr. Will Wong is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and is the Program Director of the PCCM fellowship at UMass Chan Case Presentation A 75 y/o F presenting with acute on chronic SOB, cough, L sided chest pain and rash. She has had ~7 months of progressive dyspnea, now a/w 2 months of productive cough, and several weeks of L sided chest pain and rash. She has been seen multiple times in the past two months for these sxs. During that time she received multiple antibiotic courses (urgent care, outpatient providers), including augmentin, azithromycin and levaquin, and asthma directed therapy (no steroids). Imaging throughout that time (CXRs, CTPE) show progression from a LLL infiltrate to bibasilar infiltrates. Despite these interventions, sxs continue to worsen. One month prior she was admitted to an OSH w/ continued worsening, vitals stable, exam nonfocal, mild leukocytosis but infectious w/u bland. Received broad spectrum abx. Bronch w/ BAL offers negative cultures, cytology, cell count w/ 66% neutrophils, 14% eosinophils. Discharged w/ dx of PNA on a 10 day course of levaquin and new exertional oxygen requirement of 2L. She then presents to Umass ~1 month later w/ continued progression of sxs Key Learning Points 1. Formulate a differential diagnosis for non-resolving pneumonia 2. Evaluate the utility of transbronchial biopsy in the workup of undifferentiated ILD 3. Describe the clinical manifestations of antisynthetase syndrome and identify the differences in presentation associated with PL-12 positivity References and Further Reading 1. Kuru T, Lynch JP 3rd. Nonresolving or slowly resolving pneumonia. Clin Chest Med. 1999 Sep;20(3):623-51. doi: 10.1016/s0272-5231(05)70241-0. PMID: 10516909. 2. Troy LK, Grainge C, Corte TJ, Williamson JP, Vallely MP, Cooper WA, Mahar A, Myers JL, Lai S, Mulyadi E, Torzillo PJ, Phillips MJ, Jo HE, Webster SE, Lin QT, Rhodes JE, Salamonsen M, Wrobel JP, Harris B, Don G, Wu PJC, Ng BJ, Oldmeadow C, Raghu G, Lau EMT; Cryobiopsy versus Open Lung biopsy in the Diagnosis of Interstitial lung disease alliance (COLDICE) Investigators. Diagnostic accuracy of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy for interstitial lung disease diagnosis (COLDICE): a prospective, comparative study. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Feb;8(2):171-181. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30342-X. Epub 2019 Sep 29. PMID: 31578168. 3. Hallowell RW, Danoff SK. Diagnosis and Management of Myositis-Associated Lung Disease. Chest. 2023 Jun;163(6):1476-1491. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.01.031. Epub 2023 Feb 9. PMID: 36764512. 4. Hallowell RW, Paik JJ. Myositis-associated interstitial lung disease: a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and management. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2022 Feb;40(2):373-383. doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/brvl1v.

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The Pulm PEEPs podcast will be providing regular episodes delving into the world of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Our mission with this platform is to provide learners of all levels multiple formats to engage in pulmonary and critical care education that you can access anytime, anywhere. We will be bringing you case reports of classic teaching cases that we have encountered accompanied by infographics on high-yield points from each case, roundtable chats with experts and leaders in the field of PCCM, and series of Top ICU and Top Pulmonary consults.

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