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Episode 66! Today we talk about Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease with one of our favorite hematologists, Benjamin Tillman! We base our discussion around the TASC trial or "Comparison of Prophylactic and Therapeutic Doses of Anticoagulation for Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease" published by Dessap et al in AJRCCM April of 2025.

Pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209087/

AJRCCM: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202409-1727OC

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Episode 65! Though this is during ATS, this episode was pre-recorded so you will get some reactions to the conference in the coming episodes. Instead we have a short episode where we talk about risk factors for stress ulcers and transfusion threshold in upper GI bleeding!

Risk factors: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315134/
Transfusion threshold: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23281973/
Transfusion threshold (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1211801

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Episode 64! We talk more about steroids in severe community acquired pneumonia with "Effect of hydrocortisone on mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia : The REMAP-CAP Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial" published in Intensive Care Medicine April of 2025.

Pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40261382/

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