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Lungcast

Auteur(s): American Lung Association & HCPLive
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  • Join the American Lung Association and HCPLive every month as Dr. Al Rizzo interviews world-leading experts on the great challenges, accomplishments, and stories in respiratory medicine. Get the latest lung health news, including future Lungcast topics and guests, by signing up for our newsletter at Lung.org. (https://www.lung.org)
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  • Multidisiplinary Asthma Care in High-Risk Communities with Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD, MS
    May 7 2024
    Episode Highlights

    0:11 Intro
    1:05 Introducing Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD, MS
    2:09 Understanding asthma endotypes and phenotypes
    5:03 The effect of SMART guideline updates
    11:50 Are pulmonary & allergy specialists adopting it?
    12:46 The value of biologics in asthma care
    18:11 Could they interrupt the atopic march?
    19:53 COVID-19 risks in asthma
    23:24 Environmental and non-viral illness impacts on asthma
    26:11 Research into asthma care inequities
    31:47 HFA-containing metered dose inhalers
    35:37 Outro

    In honor of World Asthma Day, Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir of Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York visits our virtual studio to talk about all things asthma. Dr. Lovinsky-Desir, who has a deep understanding of how environmental factors impact children with asthma, touches upon inequities in asthma care, the role of climate change and COVID-19 lessons learned. She also hones in on whether biologic therapies may help interrupt pathways in the atopic march.

    Want more Lungcast? Visit us at HCPLive.com/podcasts/lungcast or www.lung.org/professional-education/lungcast

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    37 min
  • 2024 State of the Air: Record Highs in US Particle Pollution, with Dr. John Balmes
    Apr 24 2024
    Episode Highlights
    0:16 Intro
    2:17 What caused the particle pollution spike?
    6:28 The health effects of fine particle pollution exposure
    10:23 The new EPA particle pollution standard
    14:27 Improvements to ozone pollution and the Clean Air Act
    18:46 How to advocate for improvement
    20:23 Air quality inequity
    24:03 Reflecting on 25 years, and looking ahead
    25:52 Outro

    Dr. John Balmes, a renowned environmental health sciences expert from the University of California, San Francisco, join Lungcast for a deep dive into the American Lung Association’s newly released 2024 “State of the Air” report. Balmes specifically provides context behind several concerning trends, notably a spike in deadly particle pollution—the highest levels in the past 25 years largely due to wildfires.

    The eye-opening conversation also impresses upon the importance of clean transportation and power generation to help mitigate population-wide risk.

    Want more Lungcast? Visit us at HCPLive.com/podcasts/lungcast or www.lung.org/professional-education/lungcast
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    27 min
  • Lung Allocation System: Improving Patient Access with Kenneth McCurry, MD & Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP
    Apr 2 2024
    0:16 Intro
    2:28 Recent modifications to the lung allocation score
    5:11 Monitoring chronic graft rejection
    9:23 The rising use of ex vivo lung perfusion
    16:17 The presence of post-COVID patients on the lung transplant waitlist
    21:01 Impact of long Covid on transplant rehabilitation
    22:51 Double lung transplant in bilateral lung cancer—what’s the future?
    26:52 Effect of LAS on lung transplant survival racial disparity
    31:05 What lies ahead in the practice of lung transplantation
    35:00 Outro

    Cleveland Clinic’s Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP, rejoins the broadcast, along with her colleague Kenneth McCurry, MD to discuss optimization of the lung allocation system to continue reducing waitlist times and patient mortality.

    It includes commentary on how recent changes to scoring protocols are expected to impact ongoing disparities related to race and socioeconomic status. They additionally talk about the role of transplantation in patients who have severely damaged lungs resulting from COVID-19 infection, an update since our April 2021 conversation.

    Want more Lungcast? Visit us at HCPLive.com/podcasts/lungcast or www.lung.org/professional-education/lungcast
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    36 min

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