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92. Journal Club with BMJ Thorax – COPD and Emphysema

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Today is our second episode in our collaborative series 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. This week’s episode covers four articles related to lung health, COPD, and emphysema.

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.

 Ewan Mackay is a Respiratory Clinical Research Fellow who has started his PhD in London. His research focus is on chronic cough and in the development of new patient-reported outcome measures as well as respiratory physiology, particularly in relation to exercise and disease.

Journal Club Papers

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.

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

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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.

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85. Journal Club with BMJ Thorax – Airway Disease

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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

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.

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Radiology Rounds – 7/19/23

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We are back with our first #RadiologyRounds of the new academic year. We have a young, immunocompetent man presenting with fever, weight loss, and abdominal pain.

What abnormalities are seen on his chest imaging?

He was found to have bilateral apical cavitary disease, centrilobular nodules, and tree-in-bud opacities. He developed a productive cough with blood-tinged sputum as well as diarrhea.

Given his apical lung disease, what is on your differential?

When thinking about apical lung disease, remember the mnemonic REACTS to help with your differential.

What are tree-in-bud opacities? They are findings seen on CT chest suggesting bronchial dilation, inflammation, and bronchial filling with fluid, mucus, or pus that can be caused by infections and non-infectious etiologies.

He had sputum and AFB cultures sent and his AFB smear was positive. He was ultimately diagnosed with disseminated TB and started on RIPE therapy.