Over 5 million patients are admitted each year to ICUs in the US. With advances in modern medicine, ~70% survive. Many survivors experience Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), a collection of new or worsening impairments in the cognitive, physical, or mental health realm. These…

Critical illness is a transformative and often traumatic event for the entire family. The authors summarize data on the outcomes and highlight the need to frame ICU care as part of a continuum of care for critically ill patients. nej.md/3kUs4bK

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My family’s American dream started in a Clarksburg, WV coal mine, so this picture hits home.

From what I’ve been told, after his shift, he raced to be with his son & watch our team. Don’t know who this is, but I have tickets for him & his family at Rupp to be treated as VIPs!!

🚨For #RadiologyRounds this week we have a mystery case from the pulmonary clinic complete with imaging and exploration of PFTs.

Follow along for some great teaching points, and see if you can solve the case!

Graphics made with the help of outstanding educator @KaitlinSeitzMD

updated evidence-based medicine pyramid:

🏃‍♀️🏊‍♂️🚶Your #ICU patients might experience #PICS and impaired physical function after discharge.

Have a look at this pilot study from Vanderbilt Health investigating the mechanisms of exercise limitation!💪

Read it here: icm-experimental.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

.Jin Ho Han is an emergency medicine physician who researches delirium and investigates how acute illness affects cognitive aging.

He started looking at COVID-19's long-term impact on cognition early in the pandemic.
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Our research team in #Nashville is looking for an experienced administrator gifted in coord & executing programs. This person would work for a high-level faculty member.

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The ICU needs help

We are so excited to welcome our new fellow classes in PCCM, Allergy and IP to Vanderbilt! We are lucky to have you join us and can't wait to see where this fellowship brings you!

I have an important announcement

Sobering data out today showing that more than 140,000 children have been orphaned or lost a caregiver due to Covid19.
Please get vaccinated.
Please vaccinate your children.
Please use other mitigation strategies, else we risk a different type of pandemic.

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Thread🧵: The original definition and conceptualization of PICS includes muskuloskeletal, cognitive, and mental health impairments after ICU.

PICS is a framework NOT a specific diagnosis.

#icurehab Hopkins ICU Rehab Dale Needham, MD, PhD

Bombshell defused.
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Since the arrival of the Delta variant, fully vaxed people have a much lower risk of getting infected (5X), hospitalized (10X), and dying (10X) from #COVID19 . No reason to wait any longer. Get 💉 NOW #VaccinesSaveLives UW Medicine Newsroom
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… via CDC

Maybe if he hadn’t blocked every pediatrician on here, someone could explain to him that word-searching “troponin” in VAERS is a piss-poor basis for risk assessment.

Why is it always the non pediatricians comparing risk of #COVID19 in kids to risk in adults?

For basically every disease, KIDS DO BETTER.

The comparison group should be kids WITHOUT #COVID19 .
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#SCCM50years

Matthew Mart et al: ICU Survivorship—Relationship of #ICUDelirium , Sedation, Dementia, & Acquired Weakness

Link: ow.ly/RtB250FyOUT

#CritCareMed SCCM
Brenda Pun Pratik Pandharipande WesElyMD

Fig: ⬆️ performance #ABCDEF bundle= ⬇️ mortality
⬆️ discharge