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Should Cardiac Surgery be Benzodiazepine-Free?
Contributed by Jessica Spence, MD, PhD, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Q: What was your rationale for conducting the B-Free trial? A: Low-quality evidence suggests that benzodiazepine administration after cardiac surgery in the ICU increases the risk of delirium and, as a result, several guidelines recommend benzodiazepines be avoided after cardiac surgery, […]
Investigator of the Month (March 2025): Kelly Atkins, PhD
Dr. Kelly Atkins is a Clinical Neuropsychologist from Melbourne Australia. She graduated from Monash University in 2021 with a doctorate in Clinical Neuropsychology and completed her registrar training at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, followed by an Australian-American Fulbright Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. In 2023, Dr Atkins received a NIDUS pre-pilot award […]
Focus on the Recently Published NIDUS Recommendations for Advancing Delirium Treatment Trials in Older Adults
Contributed by John W. Devlin, PharmD1 and Frederick Sieber, MD2 1Northeastern University/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 2Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Question: Why did NIDUS embark on developing recommendations to advance delirium treatment trials? Answer: Delirium affects 1 in 5 older hospitalized adults, yet treatment strategies remain limited. Currently, delirium treatment focuses […]
Investigator of the Month (February 2025): Blair Golden, MD, MS
Blair Golden, MD, MS is a hospitalist with training in health services research and expertise in patient and family communication. She is a tenure-track faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is the recipient of a National […]
Adaption of a neuropsychological assessment battery from in-person to telephone or videoconference administration
Contributed by Yonah Joffe1, MS, Tamara G. Fong, MD, PhD2,3, and Eva M. Schmitt, PhD3 1Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 3Aging Brain Center, Marcus Institute for Aging Research Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA Introduction […]
Investigator of the Month (January 2025): Christina Boncyk, MD
Christina Boncyk, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2013 and stayed in Madison to complete her residency in Anesthesiology at the University […]
Long-term Outcomes After Treatment of Delirium during Critical Illness with Antipsychotics: Results from the MIND-USA trial
Contributed by Matthew F. Mart, MD, MSCI1 and Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI2 1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA Background Delirium is common during critical illness and is associated with higher mortality, longer […]
Investigator of the Month (December 2024): Dr. Lis Evered
Dr. Lis Evered is Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, in the US, and Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Australia, maintaining research teams in both NY and Melbourne. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, with extensive publications and several […]
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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:
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