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 impairments are often long-term, resulting in a difficult recovery journey and leaving patients feeling isolated and misunderstood. Join us for the inaugural National #Walk4PICS Day by walking any appropriate distance Saturday, September 30. icudelirium.org/internationa… #MedTwitter #nursetwitter #ICUrehab

CAIRO Post-ICU Clinic Collaborative Applications are now open! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

A few folks have asked for my thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s hospice journey. Here they are, in no particular order: 1. Hospice is not a place. Folks can choose to die at home, as President Carter is.

We still have a few spots left, if you'd like to register!

Our comprehensive review of #LongCovid has just been published nature.com/articles/s41579-0… Phenomenal work by @ahandvanish @LisaAMcCorkell @juliamv @NatureRevMicro

We're starting a new support group for #LongCovid survivors, utilizing acceptance and commitment therapy #ACT. We have spots left @CIBScenter. No cost! Using Zoom. Contact us if interested - we want to support you. @WesElyMD

I’m going to bottom line this so everyone understands: Save your rapid home antigen tests to test out of isolation. To detect COVID at the front end, get a lab PCR test as soon as you have symptoms or 1-2 days after a known exposure.

Why's the PCR more sensitive than home antigen? Because the PCR picks up (& amplifies) a tiny amount of virus, & thus will be positive w/ levels of virus too low to infect others. In fact, we know that the average person w/ Covid will stay antigen (home test) positive… (14/24)

#Pfizer announces it has submitted its application for #COVID19 #bivalent #vaccine #booster EUA for #immunizeunder5s. Protecting our children makes them safer, their families safer, and our communities safer. This is good news. pfizer.com/news/press-releas…

Protect your baby. Get vaccinated vs #covid19 if you are pregnant. Time and again this has proven safe and helpful. Consider other measures like #masks and #socialdistancing as well. Keep yourself and your baby safe!!@UWHealth @uwsmph @PublicHealthMDC @uwanesthesia

We’re grateful to work with the TSN to increase outreach & support to our trauma patients and families!

Suicide Screening in Adolescents Do not wait for "EBM" on this one, we will have same lame guidelines for a while ("not enough evidence to support/reject screening") It's common sense, easy, & EVERY health care professional should do it for EVERY adolescent they see. /1

Hospitals are likely to be overrun with #flu, #COVID19, and #RSV. #Vaccines are available for COVID (though no bivalents for #under5s) and flu. Protect yourself and, your family, & your community. Mask if you have symptoms. We all deserve the freedom to be healthy.

The goals of care ✨are not✨ code status They're not feeding tubes Home or nursing homes The goals of care are: "What's important?" "What makes life unacceptable?" That's what we should discuss And that's what should be documented in the chart #ThisIsGeriatrics

Hospitals are full of #RSV right now, peaking a little early and joined by many other viruses, placing strain on Children’s hospitals nationwide. A 🧵on RSV…

Feedback is not about sizing people up. It's about helping them grow. 78 studies: criticism is more motivating when you (a) meet face-to-face; (b) compare behavior to a standard, not to others; (c) suggest changes to make. People want to improve when it's clear that you care.

I don’t. familymeetingnotes.substack.…

BREAKING—White House COVID Coordinator @AshishKJha46 is now discussing COVID—highlighting there are new strains popping up, he says, including those that can “evade” existing treatments. ➡️Anyone paying attention knows the looming crisis. Please get the new bivalent #Booster!