CHEST Pulse

COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Current Outcomes and Future Expectations

Panelists discuss the current knowledge of COVID-19 therapeutics based on recently concluded and still-in-progress national trials. (Originally recorded April 30, 2020)

Moderator: Holly Keyt, MD, FCCP

Panelists: Antonio Anzueto, MD, and Ryan Maves, MD, FCCP

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Acute Respiratory Failure in COVID-19: Part II

Experts continue the conversation around patient management in cases of COVID-19 characterized by acute respiratory failure. This episode centers on diagnosis and treatment protocols, as well as patient management in COVID-19 cases. (Originally recorded April 23, 2020)

Moderator: Viren Kaul, MD

Panelists: Kelly Cawcutt, MD; John Kress, MD, FCCP; and Jasmine Marcelin, MD

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Triage of Critical Care Resources During COVID-19

Authors of the article, Triage of Scarce Critical Care Resources in COVID-19: An Implementation Guide for Regional Allocation, discuss how to implement a system that maximizes benefits to the greatest number of critical care patients. Stemming from CHEST’s 2014 consensus statement on the Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters, hear suggestions that consider the particular constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Originally recorded April 16, 2020)

Moderator: Nneka O. Sederstrom, PhD, MA, FCCP

Panelists: Michael D. Christian, MD; Jeffrey R. Dichter, MD, FCCP; Mary A. King, MD, MPH; and Ryan Maves, MD, FCCP

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Acute Respiratory Failure in COVID-19: Part I

A panel of experts address key questions around patient management, including use of chest CTs, intubation, administration of steroids, and more. (Originally recorded April 9, 2020)

Moderator: Viren Kaul, MD

Panelists: Kelly Cawcutt, MD; John Kress, MD, FCCP; and Jasmine Marcelin, MD

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

The Experience From Frontline Leaders in China: Session 2—Strategies for Patient Management

Listen as Bin Cao, MD, PhD, provides an overview of the journey toward treatment, including a review of the important clinical trials underway and the current progress. In addition, Qingyuan Zhan, MD, discusses key protocols in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 and the protection of health-care providers. (Originally recorded March 31, 2020)

Moderators: Christopher Carroll, MD, FCCP; Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP; and Renli Qiao, MD, FCCP

Panelists: Bin Cao, MD, PhD, and Qingyuan Zhan, MD

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

The Experience From Frontline Leaders in China: Session 1—Strategies for Controlling the Pandemic

Chen Wang, MD, PhD, FCCP, describes how the Fangcang Shelter hospitals were employed for the admission of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients to stem infection spread. Jieming Qu, MD, PhD, also highlights the approach used in Shanghai, which successfully suppressed the curve and demonstrated a strategy for a city-wide defense. (Originally recorded March 30, 2020)

Moderators: Christopher Carroll, MD, FCCP; Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP; and Renli Qiao, MD, FCCP

Panelists: Jieming Qu, MD, PhD, and Chen Wang, MD, PhD, FCCP

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Ramping Up to Manage Patients with COVID-19

Andrew Klein, MS, RT, discusses his experience ramping up to manage patients with COVID-19 with Victor Test, MD, FCCP. After half of one shift, preparations already in place for years for Ebola turned out to be insufficient for COVID-19. (Originally recorded March 26, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in COVID-19

Nilam J. Soni, MD, MS, discusses use of point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 based on his experience at South Texas Veterans Health Care System. Mangala Narasimhan, DO, FCCP, also talks about her experience treating patients with COVID-19 at North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center. (Originally recorded March 24, 2020) 

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Managing Clinics in the Time of COVID-19

Martha Billings, MD, MSc, and Renea Jablonski, MD, compare their experiences in managing outpatient pulmonary clinics as they transition to remote telemedicine care, including triaging patients in clinic with suspected COVID-19 symptoms and reducing staff exposure, treatment management of outpatients with COVID-19, staffing logistics during transition and quarantines, and recommendations to help their peers prepare their clinics. (Originally recorded March 19, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

Managing Patients with Respiratory Conditions in the Time of COVID-19

Steven Simpson, MD, FCCP, talks to a frontline clinician about her experience managing a COVID-19 case that was caught days after the patient was admitted to the hospital. The patient’s condition deteriorated, and the patient was transferred to the ICU and mechanically ventilated for ARDS, but COVID-19 testing was not performed initially. Once tested, results were positive for SARS COV-2, and airborne and contact precautions were put in place. (Originally recorded March 19, 2020)

For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.