Dr. Carla Lamb at Beth Israel Lahey Health joins us to discuss her role in developing early interventional pulmonary training and recommendations, the utility of key diagnostic tools in the subspecialty, evolving roles for lung cancer treatments including bronchial stents, modernized COPD intervention and research, and the future of interventional pulmonary medicine. It is an information-packed interview!
Episode highlights
0:16 Intro
1:49 The history of the interventional pulmonology subspecialty
7:12 The Rescue Lung, Rescue Life Society
10:04 Technological advances to low-dose CT scan accuracy
17:04 Utility of bronchial stents in lung cancer care
21:55 Bronchial thermoplasty in asthmatic patients
26:01 Assessing a COPD patient for volume reduction
32:58 Rheoplasty and targeted lung denervation
35:39 Cryobiopsy in ILD
38:58 The future of interventional pulmonology
42:35 Outro