In the ICU, each patient has a team of professionals on-hand to work with family to promote their well-being. While in-person communication is always best, what happens when that’s not an option – at all? Dr. Adi Gerblich talks about how the ICU at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital pioneered virtual ICU rounding years before COVID made it necessary for everyone to go virtual. Hear about the hurdles surpassed, lessons learned and connecting with family members.

Dr. Cyndee Miranda and Dr. Joseph Khabbaza ,experts from the Infectious Disease and Pulmonary Medicine departments at Cleveland Clinic respectively, delve into NTM: how developing an index of suspicion can help identify patients early, what diagnostic criteria work well, when watchful waiting is called for, and the benefits of following a guideline-based regimen to determine success.

Sleep experts Loutfi Aboussouan, MD and Reena Mehra, MD join this episode of Respiratory Exchange to discuss identifying sleep apnea in patients, improving CPAP patient compliance and device alternatives for treatment including hypoglossal nerve stimulation.

Dr. Aanchal Kapoor covers some of the highlights from the CHEST 2023 conference with Drs. Angel Coz and Colin Gillespie including: procedure simulations, transfusion in the ICU, networking at the conference, pros and cons of artificial intelligence in critical care, controversies in mechanical ventilation, sepsis, ARDS, flexible vs rigid bronchoscopy, rescue strategies for hard to ventilate patients, neuro-critical care, the importance of case-based discussions and suggestions for submitting session proposals for future CHEST conferences.

What do golf clubs, computers and aerospace engineering have in common? They all use a beryllium alloy as part of their manufacturing process. Beryllium is used in many industries and, over time, workers who are in contact with this element can become sensitized to it and may develop chronic beryllium disease. Dr. Maeve MacMurdo discusses ways to identify patients who may be sensitized, as well as those who have developed chronic beryllium disease and how they can be treated.

Eduardo Mireles, MD, director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and vice-chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the current gap between ventilator technology, with its multiple options, and the education needed for providers who monitor patients. He reviews the course he developed to address this gap, the Standardized Education on Ventilatory Assistance (SEVA), as well as where AI and the detection algorithms used in mechanical ventilation will take healthcare in the future.

Dr. Fred Hsieh discusses eosinophilic-related diseases and their possible causes, such as allergic diseases or parasitic infection. He covers the best way to proceed when your CBC report shows a high eosinophil number and what hypereosinophilia syndrome actually is. Dr. Hsieh reviews the challenge in treating eosinophilic-related diseases with corticosteroids, and new, FDA-approved treatments that use eosinophil-targeting biologics to reduce the eosinophils in the blood.

ATS LIVE! Part 2 Interviews from the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference Host: Amy Attaway, MD Recorded live at ATS, Dr. Amy Attaway talks with attendees about their emerging and innovative work. Dr. Anna May: Medication use before starting positive airway pressure therapy. Dr. Neha Solanki: Platelets’ association with severe asthma. Dr. Peng Zhang: Repurposing medications to decrease asthma inflammation. Dr. Uddalak Majumdar: Mechanical ventilation and obstructive airway diseases.

Recorded live at ATS, Dr. Amy Attaway, Associate Director of the Cleveland Clinic COPD Center, talks with attendees about their emerging and innovative work:•Dr. Elizabeth Regan: COPDGene study.•Drs. Onder Yildirim and Thom Conlon: COPD iNET.•Dr. Roger Kim: AI radio mix tool. Racial disparities in lung cancer screening.

Dr. Rachel Scheraga and Dr. Brian Southern in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, cover the best of the 2023 ATS conference. They highlight discussions on recent IPF trials, omics and spatial transcriptomics, incorporating wearables data in clinical trials, climate change impact on lung disease risk and behavior, the updated pulmonary hypertension guidelines and more.