Intensivist & health services researcher at @UMiamiHealth, Editor at @journal_CHEST Critical Care, NYer at heart. Views expressed are my own.

Joined March 2014
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Got a restful weekend planned? 😴 If so… 👂 To an amazing new ⭐️podcast⭐️ w #journal_CHESTCritCare Co-Host @gretchensacha interviewing Mangaoang & Lee, authors of 2️⃣ linked studies on a scary #ICU topic — being undersedated while paralyzed 😳 Podcast: chestnet.org/guidelines-and-…
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😫 Designing #ICU trials is hard… …but details matter… @JoannaDionne & colleagues 👀 at the impact of central vs site adjudication of a 🔑 outcome: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… ❓ wanna know if it matters? Read about it #OpenAccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare!
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📦 It’s here: #journal_CHESTCritCare’s June 2026 issue! (Vol 4, Iss 2) Jam packed with: ✔️ 13 original res papers ✔️ 2 res letters ✔️ 3 editorials ✔️ 4 HIDIs ✔️ 1 special feature ✔️ 2 CIPCs ✔️ 5 correspondences chestcc.org/current #OpenAccess w something for everyone! 🎉
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I ❤️ when researchers use shortages to learn things, don’t you? 🫗 Kawada, Takahashi, & @tomoko_ICU use a fentanyl shortage to understand the potential value of remifentanil in the #ICU: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #OpenAccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare!
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❓ Ever heard of the 💫Integrated Stress Response💫 ❓ (…it pertains to how cells respond to stress…) Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, Nair et al review what we know of it in #ICU: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… 🔑 take-aways: 1. It’s activated 2. Unclear assoc w outcomes
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🤔 Wondering why you don’t get Bayesian stats? ✔️ out Greendyk, @glaucomplens, & @ecgoligher’s ⭐️editorial⭐️ in #journal_CHESTCritcare calling for better education 📣: Ed: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… Art: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78…
😵‍💫 Are you confused by Bayesian methods? Do you worry you’re alone? 🫢 Just in #journal_CHESTCritCare, B Malley et al eval how intensivists differently interpret results from Bayesian and frequentist trials… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… …I’m a bit unsettled by their findings 😉
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🦠 Tired of MDRO infections & looking for better ways to prevent in-ICU spread? L Huerta & colleagues look at feasibility of targeted MRSA/VRE contact precautions 🎯: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… ❓ Can we ⬇️ contact days without ⬆️ infection? #journal_CHESTCritCare
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⚖️ As #ICU clinicians, we need to balance patient care & our safety… B van Leer et al look into radiation ☢️ exposure from PET/CT for nurses & doctors 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #OpenAcces in #journal_CHESTCritCare
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🔮 Want to predict #VAP? Y Fromage & colleagues create a tool 🛠️ that might help: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #journal_CHEST_CritCare is all #OpenAccess, all the time 🕰️ #ICU #mechanicalventilation
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I ♥️ a good editorial, don’t you? M Tanios’s helps our #journal_CHESTCritCare readers interpret signal 🚦 vs selection 👉: Ed: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… Art: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… All #OpenAccess, so why not 👀?
🩻 Does an ARDS dx impact 3y COVID outcomes? Z Kahn & colleagues assess long term inflammation 🔥, endothelial dysfunc 🧫, & frailty 💪 in ARDS vs pna pts: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #openaccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare
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👏 So proud of Cat Chen & @DeepAshanaMD for brilliantly presenting our study of critical illness (CI) in 🤰 post-SB8 in TX: academic.oup.com/ajrccm/adva… 🔑 results—rates of 1. Infection (not CI) ↗️ for all 2. Higher-risk 🤰 ↗️ 3. CI, sepsis, infn ↗️ for higher-risk @ATSBlueEditor
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💡 Looking for a bright new idea for how to minimize pain w endotracheal intubation? So are K Shimoyama & colleagues! Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, ✔️out their protocol for a trial of subglottic lidocaine 💉… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… 👍👎 Wanna guess the outcome?
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😮 Wouldn’t it be great if you could predict who will get depression post-ICU? Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, Schubert & colleagues assess the value of in-hospital 🏥 PHQ-2 screening for post-dc 🏡 depression sx: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… 📖 Read it en route to #ATS2026!
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🔍 Looking for a simple way to test for 🫁 recruitability during MV? Bastia, @ERezoagli, & colleagues evaluate the value of a simple compliance ratio… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… …you may be surprised! 😮😳 #journal_CHESTCritCare #OpenAccess
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😫 ARDS heterogeneity makes prognostication tough… Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, @KitsiosMd et al show us how clinical subtyping can help! 😊 chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… (…they also look at in-ICU differences…)
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💰🎓 We know ICU outcomes differ by SES in the USA… but is this due to insurance access? N Cocoros & colleagues 👀 at outcomes of iMV in Denmark 🇩🇰, a country w a single payor… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… …am I surprised or not? 😳 #OpenAccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare
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✔️ out a great new editorial in #journal_CHESTCritCare by S Decker & @StephenMein on delirium 😵‍💫 & longterm 🗓️ post-ICU outcomes… Editorial: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… Article: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78…
🎯 The precise relationship between ARF, delirium, & long term morbidity has been confusing… 😵‍💫 Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, H Ferguson, @adrianosanjuan, et al help us better understand it 👍: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #OpenAccess as always.
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👂 Have you been hearing a lot about racial pulse oximeter bias? @pyang88 & colleagues aimed to explore whether skin tone 🎨drove this bias… …but the found something unexpected… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #OpenAccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare
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Wondering how #ICU clinicians use nonverbal communication? ☹️😮😊 Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, A Renet & colleagues 👀 at how we interact w families… chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… 🫸 (that’s my nonverbal push for you to ✔️ it out… why not, it’s #OpenAccess)
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✅ We know engaging patients & families 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 in the ICU is important… but how is it best done? E Christoph & colleagues identify processes that enable such engagement, just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare: chestcc.org/article/S2949-78… #OpenAccess
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