For many years we’ve focused on mechanical ventilation, but one thing that is thought about less often is getting patients off that support. In this episode, we dive deep into SBTs and getting patients successfully off the vent.

How can we be better educators and change the world of education at the same time? Our Pulmcast team sat down with Dr. Rob Rogers enthusiast of all things medical education to pick his brain on a host of topics.

ACLS is well known to most providers, but the thing that is difficult, even to seasoned providers, is taking control of the room.

When it comes to our daily lives, we sometimes forget to invest in one the most important things that factor into our health, happiness and well being - sleep. In todays episode we interview sleep expert Dr. Michael Grandner to help us navigate this world.

In Part II we dive deeper into melatonin, hypnotics and other drugs used to help with sleep/wake as well as test Dr. Schmitt with different scenarios.

In Part 1 we go over sleep physiology, why night shift is so bad for you, sleep hygiene and environment as well as the use of caffeine.

In this episode, we break down interpreting ABGs into five easy steps to help take your acid-base game to the next level.

In this episode, we had the honor of interviewing Dr. Antonio Anzueto who helped develop the new 2017 GOLD Guidelines. 

No frills, no fluff - let’s dive right in to the good stuff.

What side are you on?

A 34-year-old female with a history of moderate persistent asthma presents to the ED with shortness of breath. Albuterol nebs are no longer helping, and her lactic is rising. What do you do?

A profoundly lethal gas that can tear apart your cells piece by piece, leading to tissue damage and organ failure. A gas you're breathing in - right NOW.

Today we discuss a paper from Lars Anderson: Association Between Tracheal Intubation During Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Survival.

No algorithm will ever save a human being, but what it will do if it is a good one is tell the humans who to focus their efforts on. 

We invited Dr. Robert Baughman, the world's leading expert on sarcoidosis from the University of Cincinnati onto the show to discuss some advanced topics in sarcoidosis management.

We brought in Chad Case, MD: our System ICU Director and Chief of Critical Care at our hospital system to talk controversies in sepsis management. Is EGDT dead? If so, what do we teach non-intensivists that staff 70% of ICUs nation-wide? Does dobutamine belong in the trash along with CVP, ScvO2, passive leg raise, PA caths & POCUS? Is there anything we CAN do nowadays??

We work in a multi-hospital system made up of multiple secondary community hospitals and one large quarternary facility downtown. Our community hospitals have a strong ICU team who routinely admit and manage patients with severe ARDS. They are capable of paralytics and proning but do not have access to ECMO. The questions we often struggle with are: who needs to transfer for ECMO? when do they need to transfer? how do we know who will end up being too sick to transfer? at what point should we make the phone call to the big house?

We sat down with our ICU director and our local ECMO guru to answer these questions. Tune in!

We snuck in on an interview between two powerhouses in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine - Dr. Amy Hajari Case and Dr. Randall Young. This is part II of a series inspired by a grand rounds lecture on the current state of lung transplant medicine given by Dr. Randall Young. His bio can be found here.

It's stupid o'clock in the morning. I'm wide awake and have been for two hours. Ironically I think tonight's insomnia is because I am on holiday and I am thinking through what I may not have finished or handed over thoroughly enough. I suppose this means I am stressed...

Welcome to the first of our Train the Trainer series: Bedside Education; back to our roots.

Warning: NON MEDICAL EPISODE! Admittedly, this show is a little inside-jokey, so we apologize for that. 

In this episode we talk about human factors & airway management

This show was inspired by a grand rounds lecture on the current state of lung transplant medicine given by Dr. Randall Young. His bio can be found here.

Treating well selected patients with VTE at home without admission is something our group has discussed on and off for the last several years. Today we have a special guest on the show one of our intensivists Jermaine Jackson, MD.

In this episode, we discuss advanced care planning & end of life discussions with one of our intensivists, Craig Patterson, MD.