“Guidelines” galore! From Community-Acquired Pneumonia to asthma to...red meat? While you may be listening to this around Thanksgiving, we actually recorded on October 30th‒the best and spookiest time of the year. To really set the mood I wanted to include some terrible skeleton puns, but the ones I found weren’t humerus. What we do have for you are some tasty knowledge treats, courtesy of our ghosts‒oops, I mean our HOSTS‒Chris, Matt, Stuart and Paul. Join us as we review the most terrifyingly relevant research findings and creepiest clinical pearls! Today also marks the debut of our newest Hotcakes team member, the frighteningly talented Dr. Rahul Ganatra. Rahul will now be our resident statistician/study design expert, and will use his research skulls‒no wait, SKILLS‒to provide even more insight into the practice-changing findings we love to highlight for you.   ACP members can claim CME-MOC at CME credit https://www.acponline.org/curbsiders. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com. Credits  Written and Produced by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Christopher Chiu MD Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Christopher Chiu MD Statistics Expert: Rahul Ganatra MD Editors: Christopher Chiu MD (audio/text), Emi Okamoto MD (text) Cover-Art: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH Music: Stuart Brigham MD Time stamps 00:00 Introduction/Disclaimer 03:18 Getting to know Dr. Rahul Gantra 05:35 Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines 15:13 Sarah explains Hotcakes ratings 16:45 A new Asthma Strategy 17:26 Chris forgets what LABA stands for 27:37 Stuart makes a joke 29:00 A lot of meat talk 37:22 Rahul’s Napkin Calculations 51:40 Honorable Mentions 52:42 Take-away Points & Outtro Meet Rahul: Rahul Ganatra is a Medical Attending and Director of Continuing Medical Education for the Medical Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System.  He fell in love with clinical epidemiology and public health while taking night classes for his MPH during medical school. and went on to become an applied epidemiology fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he worked as a hospitalist for two years before coming to the VA, where he is currently the faculty mentor for the resident journal club.  In addition to critical appraisal, he loves cool animal facts and subjecting friends and colleagues to tirades about animal physiology. Goals and Learning Objectives Goals:  Listeners will learn about relevant medical literature, with emphasis on breaking news and recently published research.  Learning objectives: After listening to this episode listeners will… Learn about important journal articles and their salient points Develop a framework to critically analyze journal articles in a practical way Learn what medical news is being widely reported in the lay media and the underlying evidence in the literature Review the current literature on the following subjects: (1)American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Community Acquired Pneumonia; (2) updated asthma treatment strategy and recommendations from the Global Initiative for Asthma; (3) the association between red meat intake and mortality and cardiometabolic outcomes.  Disclosures:  The Curbsiders report no relevant financial disclosures. Citation:    Chiu CJ, Roberts SP, Ganatra R, Williams PN, Brigham SK, Watto MF. “Hotcakes: CAP, Asthma and Red Meat”. The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast https://thecurbsiders.com/episode-list. November 27, 2019.