NIDUS Blog

Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH

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 […]

Dr. Sikandar Khan, DO, MS

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 […]

Dr. Sara C. LaHue

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 […]

Michael Reznik, MD, Department of Critical Care Medicine & Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Prevalence of clinical electroencephalography findings in stroke patients with delirium

Contributed by Noa Mintz, ScB, Brown University, Providence, RI and Michael Reznik, MD, Department of Critical Care Medicine & Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Background Patients with acute stroke are at a high risk for delirium, which may occur in up to half of cases depending on the type of stroke.1–4 However, post-stroke delirium […]

Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff

Investigator of the Month (June 2024): Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff

Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff is the Austin Lamont Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. His primary area of research has been the molecular pharmacology of general anesthetics. Dr. Eckenhoff and his team have been NIH-funded for almost 35 years. This team has provided considerable evidence for the molecular targets and […]

Kyra O'Brien MD and Mark Neuman MD MSc, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Anesthesia Choice for Cognitively Impaired Patients Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery

Contributed by Kyra O’Brien MD and Mark Neuman MD MSc, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Background The impact of general anesthesia on postoperative outcomes in patients with cognitive impairment is often debated. Some have posited that general anesthesia may have neurotoxic effects and therefore increase the risk of postoperative delirium and […]

Dr. James Rudolph

Investigator of the Month (May 2024): Dr. James Rudolph

Dr. James Rudolph is a geriatrician and palliative care physician. He has a long track record of delirium research and collaboration. Dr. Rudolph is amazed that a short-term health event, like delirium, can have a profound impact on the course of people’s lives. Like most delirium experts, he ran alone in his institution. And he […]

Stacie Deiner MS MD

Comparison of the frailty index and frailty phenotype and their associations with postoperative delirium incidence and severity

Stacie Deiner MS MD, LeRoy Garth Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth University Medical School, Hanover, NH Studies show that preoperative frailty is associated with up to six times the odds of postoperative delirium, depending on which frailty measurement tool is used.1,2 There are two distinct paradigms of frailty measurement, Frailty […]

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)