Peter J. Papadakos MD, FCCM, FCCP, FAARC, FNIV Director Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester The global pandemic has had a major impact on ICU utilization. We have all experienced major shortfalls in being able to admit critically ill patients to properly staffed critical care...
Matthew N. Jaffa, DO and Evie G. Marcolini, MD Nearly every clinical decision presents us with the opportunity to lean into the historical ethos attributed to Hippocrates to “first, do no harm”, and to provide appropriate, beneficial, and safe care for our patients. If there is potential for...
Brian W. Gilbert, PharmD, MBA, BCCCP, BCPS, Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Residency Program Director, Critical Care Pharmacy Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS Brooke L. Barlow, PharmD Neurocritical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville,...
Dana Bakdach, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar (NOT PICTURED) Farah Kablaoui Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Nouran Salem, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Rita Jebrin, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ...
Shivani Ghoshal, MD As the wave of Omicron crashed onto hospitals this winter, memories from 2020 came flooding back, along with concomitant emotional fatigue. This month, Currents is especially honored to highlight creative works from two neurocritical care nurses from New York, at a time...
Mikel Shea Ehntholt Neurocritical Care Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Neurology A 73-year old woman presented to our institution with a three-week duration of headache and dizziness. She had a past known history of an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage,...
Peter J. Papadakos MD, FCCM, FCCP, FAARC, FNIV Director Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester Those of us working in neurocritical care are the frontline individuals caring for ICU patients with acute stroke. This allows us a special opportunity to educate patients and families...
Sarah Jung, PharmD, MS, BCCCP Wellstar Kennestone Hospital; Marietta, Georgia The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was also accompanied by the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 70% of the largest cities in the US grew more...
Mahammed Khansuheb, MD; Amay Parikh, MD Percutaneous tracheostomy (PcT) is a technique first described by Shelden in 1957. Over 100,000 adults in the United States receive tracheostomies each year. More than 50% of these are for prolonged mechanical ventilation due to acute respiratory...
Aleksandra Yakhkind, MD MS is a neurointensivist who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in June 2021. She is doing locums before she starts at Tufts Medical Center in 2022. Her interests include writing and burnout prevention. In her spare time, she enjoys surfing, hiking and skiing....