Summary: <p>In this episode of Critical Matters, we take a deep dive in delirium with Wesley Ely, MD. Dr. Ely is a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the co-director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS Center), which has enrolled thousands of patients into clinical trials answering vital questions about ICU acquired brain disease and other components of ICU survivorship. His team developed the CAM-ICU, and he has published extensively on the topic. </p> <h2>Additional Resources</h2> <ul> <li>Link to the CIBS Center website, which contains a wealth of resources for intensivists on the topic of delirium: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://bit.ly/2HfdQ0n" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2HfdQ0n</a> </li> <li>The MIND-USA trial evaluated haloperidol and ziprasidone in ICU patients with delirium: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://bit.ly/2OQ5gIE" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2OQ5gIE </a> </li> <li> <em>Caring for Critically Ill Patients with the ABCDEF Bundle: Results of the ICU Liberation Collaborative in Over 15,000 Adults</em>: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://bit.ly/2VWLUlm" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2VWLUlm</a> </li> </ul> <h2>Books Mentioned in This Episode</h2> <ul> <li> <em>The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics</em> by Daniel James Brown: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/2RMmcRe" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2RMmcRe</a> </li> <li> <em>Solzhenitsyn: A soul in exile</em> by Joseph Pearce: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/2RPhpi0" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2RPhpi0</a> </li> <li>Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/2VZ2ZLb" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2VZ2ZLb</a> </li> <li> <em>Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End</em> by Atul Gawande: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/2HfeQ4D" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2HfeQ4D </a> </li> </ul> <h2>Music Mentioned in This Episode</h2> <ul><li> <em>The Chronic</em> by Dr. Dre: <a href="https://amzn.to/2HffeA7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://amzn.to/2HffeA7</a> </li></ul>
