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Investigator of the Month (November 2024): Dr. Susana Vacas
Susana Vacas, MD, PhD, is a neuroanesthesiologist, clinician innovator, investigator, and educator at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, where her research focused on the underlying mechanisms and risk factors of perioperative neurocognitive disorders, a set of debilitating, costly, and increasingly pervasive […]
Performance and Validation of Two ICU Delirium Assessment and Severity Tools: A Prospective Observational Study
Contributed by Mark van den Boogaard, RN, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Background Delirium is common in intensive care unit (ICU) and medium care unit (MCU) settings 1, 2 and associated with number of deleterious short and long-term outcomes, including long-term cognitive impairment. Current guidelines recommend that ICU/MCU patients should be routinely […]
Investigator of the Month (October 2024): Dr. Kendall Smith
Dr. S. Kendall Smith, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, specializing in general anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Her clinical expertise is complemented by a robust research program that focuses on the impact of circadian health on clinical outcomes of hospitalized and critically ill […]
Prevention of postoperative delirium using an overnight infusion of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A pragmatic, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial
Contributed by Olivier Huet, MD, PhD, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Background Postoperative delirium is acknowledged to have a significant negative impact on patient outcome after cardiac surgery including long-term cognitive decline. To date, there is no specific treatment for postoperative delirium 1. Prevention of postoperative delirium primarily relies on patient re-orientation, mobility and […]
Investigator of the Month (September 2024): Dr. Robert Sanders
Professor Robert Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, DABA, FRCA, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience and MBBS (medicine) followed by specialist training in Anaesthetics. During that time, he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding […]
Do Language Disparities Exist in Preoperative Cognitive Screening and Does Language Preference Influence the Association Between Preoperative Cognition and Postoperative Delirium?
Contributed by Angela Chen, BA1, 2; Robert Whittington, MD1; Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH1. 1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2. Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, North Chicago, IL, USA Background Older adults are highly vulnerable to postoperative delirium, particularly […]
Investigator of the Month (August 2024): Dr. Sikandar Khan
Dr. Sikandar Khan, DO, MS, is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Scientist at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. His research is focused on the nexus of acute respiratory failure, delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU), and cognitive and physical function outcomes in […]
Investigator of the Month (July 2024): Dr. Sara C. LaHue
Dr. Sara C. LaHue is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF, where she also earned her medical degree and completed both her neurology residency and neurohospitalist fellowship. As a Buck Institute for Research on Aging Visiting Scientist and NIA Butler-Williams Scholar, Dr. LaHue is dedicated to advancing the care of older hospitalized adults. Her […]
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Citing a published NIDUS blog post on your CV
When citing a NIDUS blog post on your CV, list it in a section entitled ‘Other Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarship’. For the actual citation, list your name, blog title, organization (NIDUS), and the link to Blog. At the end, add ‘invited blog’ in brackets. This is the format suggested on the Harvard Med School CV template.
Example:
Sam Jones, My Delirium Blog Post, NIDUS, www.deliriumnetwork/my-delirium-blog-post.org (invited blog)