Respiratory Exchange
Episodes
Advancing Bronchoscopy with the AABIP: Innovations, Advocacy and Patient Care
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Respiratory Exchange Podcast, Dr. Dan Culver, Chair of Pulmonary Medicine, hosts an engaging conversation with Dr. Sonali Sethi...
Hospitalist Insights on COPD: Comprehensive Care for Admitted Patients
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Respiratory Exchange Podcast, Dr. Dan Culver, Chair of Pulmonary Medicine, hosts an engaging conversation with Dr. Moises Auron...
Ventilation in 2050: Exploring the Future of Respiratory Support
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dr. Dan Culver, Chair of Pulmonary Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, as he leads an insightful discussion on the future of mechanical ventilation in ...
Understanding LAM: Insights into this Rare Lung Disease
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Respiratory Exchange podcast, Dr. Les Tolle and Dr. Kamonpun (Joy) Ussavarungsi dive deep into the complexities of lymphangiole...
2025 CHEST Conference Highlights
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 CHEST Conference Highlights In this episode, pulmonary and critical care leaders share the most exciting takeaways from the CHEST annual meeti...
Managing Respiratory Distress in Pregnancy in the Emergency Department
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast delivers a high-impact, practical discussion on managing critically ill pregnant patients—an area often outside the daily comfort zone ...
American Thoracic Society: Belong, Contribute, Thrive! Talking with ATS President, Dr. Raed Dweik
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes the ATS the go-to home for clinicians, researchers and educators in pulmonary health? In this inspiring episode, the new ATS president lays...
Interstitial Lung Abnormalities (ILAs)
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if subtle CT findings you're used to skimming over could actually predict increased mortality and signal the earliest stages of fibrotic lun...
Building a POCUS Powerhouse: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Workflow, Training and Innovation in Pulmonary Critical Care
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how Cleveland Clinic transformed a single ultrasound machine into a cutting-edge, hospital-wide Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) program...
Relieving the Chronic Cough Burden: From Expert Evaluation to Emerging Therapies
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chronic cough is an often-misunderstood condition that places a significant quality of life burden on patients and their loved ones. For providers, th...
Treating CTEPH: Surgery, Medication or Balloon Angioplasty?
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Respiratory Exchange, titled "Treating CTEPH: Surgery, Medication or Balloon Angioplasty?" Dr. Gustavo Heresi and Dr. Ali...
Relationship Between Intermittent Hypoxia, COPD and Comorbidities
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amy Attaway and Dr. Dan Culver review the emerging relationship between COPD patients who have intermittent hypoxemia and an increase they have in...
2024 CHEST Conference Highlights
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Angel Coz reviews some of the highlights from the CHEST 2024 conference with Drs. Priya Balakrishnan and Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila. They cover as...
Diagnosing and Treating Delirium in the ICU
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Delerium is an acute mental disorder associated with fluctuating changes in cognition and attention and is likely a consequence of another medical con...
Identifying, Managing and Treating Sepsis
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sepsis is a leading cause of death in hospitals worldwide. In this episode Drs. Matthew Dettmer and James Morrison discuss the two major patient popul...
Global Impact of RSV
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Fernanda Bonilla will discuss the health implications, the challenges and opportunities in vaccinology, and the importance of collaboration in hea...
RSV in Transplant/Immunocompromised Population
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will explore the impact of RSV on transplant and immunocompromised population, emphasizing the critical role of vaccination. Dr. G...
Vaccine Hesitancy and Proposed Strategies
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine Hesitancy and Proposed Strategies - Dr. Tosin Goje and Dr. Aanchal Kapoor discuss vaccine hesitancy as techniques used to communicate with pat...
Respiratory Viral Vaccines and Personalized Vaccinology
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gregory Poland explains the different aspects and limitations of immunity, such as innate, humoral, cellular, and durable immunity, and the need f...
2024 ATS Highlights
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kristen Highland speaks with Drs. Peter Mazzone and Vickram Tejwani about the recent 2024 American Thoracic Society Conference. Topics discussed i...
RSV in Pediatrics in the Vaccine Era
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Frank Esper will discuss the impact of RSV on children. He will review the burden of RSV infection in children, the history and challenges of RSV ...
Spirometry Reference Values Mismeasurement for Women
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Measurement of lung volume is used routinely by pulmonologists and according to the Global Lung Initiative (GLI) regression, women as a population hav...
Overview of Respiratory Vaccines and Delivery for the Clinician
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Trate DeVolld and Dr. Katie Rivard will explore the efficacy of RSV vaccines and discuss preventive strategies aimed at reducing the occurrence of...
EDAC and TBM: Diagnosing and Treating Airway Collapse Diseases
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Gildea, MD, section head of Interventional Pulmonary and Bronchoscopy, discusses Excessive Dynamic Airways Collapse (EDAC) and Tracheobronchoma...
Detection of Respiratory Viruses for the Clinician
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Hannah Wang and Dr. Christopher Attaway will explore emerging RSV testing as it pertains to understanding the capabilities and limitations of diff...
Cancer Immunotherapy-Caused Pneumonitis: Identification and Treatment
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized the management of many cancers. However, adverse events and side effects on various organs, including...
RSV Vaccination for Older Adults
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special series by Respiratory Exchange Addressing the Impact of RSV and Vaccine Hesitancy. In this series, we explore the efficacy of R...
RSV and Vaccine Hesitancy
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michaela Gack explains her research on emerging respiratory viruses and vector-borne pathogens. She discusses the recent advancements in RSV vacci...
2024 SCCM Critical Care Congress Highlights
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Siddarth Dugar talks with Congress Co-chair Roshni Sreedharan, MD and Cleveland Clinic Director of Translational Critical Care Research, Vidula Va...
What to know about opioids
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There have been drastic changes made in the regulation of opioids for medical treatment in the past few decades. However, with advent of fentanyl and ...
Stepping Up With Virtual ICU Rounding
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infections
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cyndee Miranda and Dr. Joseph Khabbaza ,experts from the Infectious Disease and Pulmonary Medicine departments at Cleveland Clinic respectively, d...
Sleep Apnea Identification and Treatment
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep experts Loutfi Aboussouan, MD and Reena Mehra, MD join this episode of Respiratory Exchange to discuss identifying sleep apnea in patients, impr...
2023 CHEST Conference Highlights
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Aanchal Kapoor covers some of the highlights from the CHEST 2023 conference with Drs. Angel Coz and Colin Gillespie including: procedure simulatio...
Chronic Beryllium Disease
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do golf clubs, computers and aerospace engineering have in common? They all use a beryllium alloy as part of their manufacturing process. Berylli...
Mechanical Ventilation: From Reading Waveforms to AI and Detection Algorithms
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eduardo Mireles, MD, director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and vice-chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, discu...
When the Count is High: Eosinophilic Diseases
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Fred Hsieh discusses eosinophilic-related diseases and their possible causes, such as allergic diseases or parasitic infection. He covers the best...
ATS LIVE! Part 2 Interviews from the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
ATS LIVE! Interviews from the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference Part 1
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at ATS, Dr. Amy Attaway, Associate Director of the Cleveland Clinic COPD Center, talks with attendees about their emerging and innovativ...
Highlights from the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference (ATS)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rachel Scheraga and Dr. Brian Southern in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, cover the best of the 2023 ATS conference. They highl...
Mistaken Identity: The Case for Early, Correct Identification of Fibrosing Mediastinitis
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This underrecognized disease is too often diagnosed late in the fungal infection’s fibrotic progression. Learn how using a combination of CT scans, ...
On the Job: Identifying Occupational Lung Disease
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Occupational lung disease is anything related to exposures that occurred on the job. This includes something that may be happening now or happened 20,...
Where Lung Transplant and Health Policy Meet
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Maryam Valapour, director of Lung Transplant Outcomes Research at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the intersection of transplant science and health po...
Where Are They? Patients with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is a genetic disease that commonly goes unrecognized. For some patients who have COPD or emphysema, alpha-1 is a predis...
Burn Pit Exposure
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Military burn pits were used during deployment to burn away any kind of waste created. The fumes produced have caused serious lung injury and disease....
CHEST 2022: What You Missed
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Mazzone talks with Drs. Sethi Sonali and Angel Coz about some of the highlights from the CHEST 2022 conference, including the two-part Criti...
Help Patients Stop Smoking
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Humberto Choi, director of Cleveland Clinic’s Smoking Cessation Program, discusses ways for clinicians to be proactive and individualize treatme...
Treating Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patients
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elliot Dasenbrook, founder and director of the Cleveland Clinic Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, discusses the formation of the multidisciplinary ad...
Medical Intensive Liver Unit: Creating an ICU for Advanced Liver Disease Patients Medical Intensive
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liver disease presents a high burden, both on the society as well as healthcare system. Dr. Aanchal Kapoor, founder and director of the Medical Intens...
Interstitial Lung Diseases: Diagnosis, Therapies and Management
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Daniel Culver, chairman of the Pulmonary Department in the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic, dives in to the topic of interstitial lung d...
Lung Transplant as Therapy for COVID Lung Cases
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the U.S. from March 2020 to June 2021, 147 lung transplants took place for COVID fibrosis or COVID ARDS. In this podcast, Dr. Kenneth McCurry and D...
Environmental Impact on the Lung
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Sumita Khatri, vice chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Respiratory Institute and director of the Asthma Center, discusses the multitud...
Treating Food Allergy with Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) and Early OIT
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Hong, MD joins Respiratory Exchange to discuss oral immunotherapy (OIT) for food allergy. She reviews the life-changing success of patients who...
Lung Cancer Screening: It’s More Than a CT Scan
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Mazzone, Director of the Lung Cancer Program for the Respiratory Institute and the Lung Cancer Screening Program for Cleveland Clinic, dis...
Lung Transplant A-Z: From Referring a Patient to the Impact of COVID-19
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Marie Budev, director of the Cleveland Clinic Lung Transplant Program, tackles the huge subject of Lung Transplant, covering a range of topics tha...
Highlights of 2021 World Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Diseases Conference
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Daniel Culver, chair of the Cleveland Clinic Department for Pulmonary Medicine, and Dr. Manuel Ribeiro, director of the Sarcoidosis Center at the ...
Penicillin, Aspirin and Vaccine Allergies: New Hope for Patients
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. David Lang, chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Department for Allergy and Immunology, updates us on methods allergists may use to challenge self-rep...
The Cough That Never Ends: Treating Chronic Cough
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rachel Taliercio, founder and director of the Chronic Cough Clinic, talks about the four main causes of chronic cough: upper airway cough syndrome...
Advances in Critical Care Medicine: Teams, Technology, Family and More
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Hassan Khouli, chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Critical Care Medicine Department, covers aspects of this young, evolving field, from expanding th...
The Pandemic after the Pandemic: Treating Long COVID-19 Patients
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kristin Englund, founder and director of Cleveland Clinic’s post-COVID reCOVer Clinic, discusses the increasing impact of long COVID on patients...
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Steven Gordon, chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Infectious Disease Department, discusses how the COVID-19 pathogen has taught us numerous lessons ...