Background: Asthma is one of the most common chronic medical conditions affecting around 300 million people worldwide. It is a disorder of the airways characterized by recurrent symptoms of airway obstruction and inflammation. Invasive mechanical ventilation for patients admitted to the hospital with asthma is challenging with higher complications and higher rates of patient-ventilator asynchrony, […]

Case Presentation: 41yo unvaccinated male diagnosed and treated with COVID-19 pneumonia eleven days prior represents six days after discharge for productive cough with hemoptysis. Patient was hemodynamically stable on room air with normal chemistries. CT chest demonstrated a new cavitary lesion in the left lower lobe and he empirically began antibiotics for post-viral pneumonia. When […]