Last Week in Medicine

Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Acute COPD Exacerbation, Tocilizumab for COVID-19 Round 3

January 13, 2021 Stephen Jenkins, MD; Austin Rupp, MD; Jason Carr, MD Season 2 Episode 7
Last Week in Medicine
Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Acute COPD Exacerbation, Tocilizumab for COVID-19 Round 3
Show Notes

WARNING: This episode is long on banter.  If you would like to skip the intro conversation and get right to the articles, skip ahead to 12:13. 

Today we are joined by Dr. Jason Carr, pulmonary-critical care all-star, to talk about how often PE is present in patients with acute COPD exacerbations.  We also review more tocilizumab RCTs because they just keep coming.

Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Acute COPD Exacerbation
STOP-IT COVID trial
RCT-TCZ-COVID-19 trial
CORIMUNO-TOCI-1 trial
REMAP-CAP trial pre-print









Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)