CHEST Journal Podcasts

CHEST Journal Podcasts

Each month, CHEST hosts a discussion with the author of one or more articles from the current issue, adding context and commentary on the most relevant topics facing those in the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.

Episodes

July 1, 2025 23 mins

Justin Aunger, PhD, and Kay Por Yip MBChB, PhD, join CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator, Gretchen Winter, MD, to discuss their research into interventions for improving adherence to clinical guidelines for the management and follow-up of pulmonary nodules. 

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.02.031 

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Hayley B. Gershengorn, MD, joins CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator, Gretchen Winter, MD, to discuss her research into the effect of double-blind peer review on manuscript acceptance for authors by gender and presumed English fluency at CHEST. 

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.02.016

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CHEST July 2025, Volume 168, Issue 1

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST July 2025 issue, including an investigation into the use of needle aspiration and forceps biopsy as a multimodal diagnostic approach for pulmonary arterial hypertension, an exploration of the ability of a modified cuff link test to predict re-intubation, and more. 

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CHEST June 2025, Volume 167, Issue 6 

CHEST journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST June 2025 issue, including an investigation of the effects of low-dose morphine on sleep and breathlessness in COPD, an exploration into the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation on survival in people with interstitial lung disease, and more. 

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Originally aired: May 29, 2025

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, FCCP, joins CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Abhishek Bhardwaj, MD, to discuss his Exhalations article, “Medicine at Its Finest,” and explore ways to connect to the unique individuals receiving care, navigating personal biases, refilling your “empathy cup” as a clinician, and the role of family in advocacy.

This episode is part of a new series exploring articles published in the...

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CHEST May 2025, Volume 167, Issue 5 

CHEST journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST May 2025 issue, including an exploration into associations between socioeconomic status and frailty in patients with COPD, trends in all-cause mortality among US veterans with sarcoidosis, and much more. 

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Asad E. Patanwala, PharmD, MPH, and Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, join CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Alice Gallo De Moraes, MD, FCCP, to discuss their research into the effect of albumin administration on the need for renal replacement therapy and mortality in patients with septic shock and renal impairment.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.10.012

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Judith Maria Brock, MD, joins CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Alice Gallo De Moraes, MD, FCCP, to discuss her research into the differences in severity grades of pneumothorax and their effect on clinical practice.

 

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.10.045

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CHEST April 2025, Volume 167, Issue 4

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST April 2025 issue, including a new guideline on alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency targeted testing and augmentation therapy, a review of conflict of interest disclosure in bronchoscopy research, and an exploration into the growth of screening-detected pure ground-glass nodules afte...

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CHEST March 2025, Volume 167, Issue 3

CHEST journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST March 2025 issue, including an exploration of the effectiveness of guideline-recommended activities for children with asthma, a review of health system purchasing professionals' approaches to considering equity in procurement, and a new guideline on the acquisition and handling ...

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February 25, 2025 41 mins

Originally aired: February 26, 2025

Rana L. Awdish, MD, joins CHEST® Journal Podcast moderator, Abhishek Bhardwaj, MD, to discuss her Exhalations article, “A Kind of Faith,” and explore how her near-death experience changed her, how she stays connected to meaning and emotion in a turbulent world, and the dark side of hope.

This episode is part of a new series exploring articles published in the journal's Humanities section.

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CHEST February 2025, Volume 167, Issue 2

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST February 2025 issue, including a new guideline on RBC transfusion in critically ill adults, research exploring the association between air pollution and lung function in sarcoidosis, and much more.

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Nathan C. Nowalk, MD, and Babak Mokhlesi, MD, FCCP, join CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator, Alice De Gallo Moraes, MD, FCCP, to discuss their research into the association between gender and outcomes among hospitalized and ambulatory adults with obesity hypoventilation syndrome.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.10.002

 

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Ryota Sato, MD, MPH, FCCP, joins CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator, Alice De Gallo Moraes, MD, FCCP, to discuss his research into the potential survival benefits associated with the use of ultra-short-acting β-blockers (esmolol or landiolol) in patients with sepsis with persistent tachycardia.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.08.020

 

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CHEST January 2025, Volume 167, Issue 1

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST January 2025 issue, including research into understanding nonpharmacologic palliative care for patients with COPD, gender differences in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome, and more.

 

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CHEST December 2024, Volume 166, Issue 6

Angela O. Suen, MD, joins CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator Gretchen Winter, MD, to discuss her research comparing health care and palliative care use by patients with COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and lung cancer at the end of life.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.08.018

 

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CHEST December 2024, Volume 166, Issue 6

Elias H. Pratt, MD, joins CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator Alice de Gallo Moraes, MD, to discuss his research exploring whether implementation of different institutional RBC transfusion thresholds for patients receiving venovenous ECMO is associated with changes in RBC use and patient outcomes.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.05.043

 

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CHEST December 2024, Volume 166, Issue 6

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST December 2024 issue, including research into the impact of dyspnea in adults with respiratory symptoms; differences in health care and palliative cCare utilization at the end of life; and more.

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CHEST November 2024, Volume 166, Issue 5

Mariachiara Ippolito, MD, and Andrea Cortegiani, MD, join CHEST Journal Podcast Moderator Gretchen Winter, MD, to discuss their research exploring the association of different methods for conducting spontaneous breathing trials with the risk of reintubation among critically ill adult patients.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2024.06.3773

 

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CHEST November 2024, Volume 166, Issue 5

CHEST® journal's Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key research published in the journal CHEST November 2024 issue, including research into patient and provider perspectives driving inhaler choice, a framework for research gaps in pediatric ventilator liberation, and more.

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