Bindi Parikh, MD, Neurology Resident, University of Minnesota Christine Yeager, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota Section Editor Lauren Koffman, DO, MS One Thursday, amidst the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Naema had been working from home as a...
By Sana Alkhawaja, MD, CABEM; Nehad Al Shirawi, MD, MRCP; Hasan Mohammed Naser, MBBS, Najat S. Hameed Naser, RN; Asrar A. Majeed Al Asheeri, RN; Redha Abdulla Al Hammam, RN; Amina Maki Husain, RN The Kingdom of Bahrain, home of the ancient Dilmun civilization, is a Middle Eastern island...
By Peter J Papadakos, MD, FCCM, FCCP, FAARC, FNIV During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, critical care practitioners throughout the United States and the world were instructed by health agencies, government leaders and hospital administration to ban family members from visiting critically ill...
By Kia Ghiassi, Department of Neurology, Missouri University, Columbia Missouri; Jesyree Veitia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; and Francisco Gomez, Department of Neurology, Missouri University, Columbia Missouri Adequate cerebral blood flow (CBF) is a key component in...
By Michael Diringer, MD The financial infrastructure for scientific publishing is being completely transformed by a desire to ensure that scientific knowledge is freely accessible to all. The power behind this transformation resides with those who fund research; they are insisting that...
By Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, MD, MSc, MPhil, Division of Neurocritical Care,Department of Neurosciences, UC San Diego Health In the early 1990s, most physicians were Republicans. Three decades later, the demographic composition of the medical workforce has shifted 1, 2 , and so has the overall...
By Tommy T. Thomas, MD, PhD; Ebonye Green MNSc, ACNPC-AC, CNRN, SCRN, APRN; Deepa Malaiyandi, MD and Hana Nobleza, MD Some of us watched the videos. A doctor’s cry for help from the very medical establishment to which she belongs. A CEO expresses contrition by saying that there were ...
By Starane Shepherd, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Over the last year of this pandemic, I have taken care of a large number of patients with COVID-19 infections in our neurocritical care unit. At the height of the surge in Chicago, our unit...
By Matilda Dervisevic 1 , Chetan Sateesh Nayak 2 and Francisco Gomez 3 1 Univeristy of Missouri Medical School 2 Department of Neurology, University of Missouri 3 Department of Neurology, University of Missouri Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is a condition in which there is...
By Stephen A. Trevick, MD, Northwest Neurology, IL The emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt throughout society for months and years to come. This impact will come in many guises and patterns throughout medicine and certainly in the acute care of neurocritical care patients....