1 hr 18 min

Improving Recovery & Healing Beyond The ICU (w/Dr. Wes Ely‪)‬ The ZDoggMD Show

    • Medicine

A front-line critical care doc talks about why preserving quality of life AFTER an ICU stay matters...a LOT.
Dr. Wes Ely's book, Every Deep-Drawn Breath, is available now. Check out the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center here. Here's our other episodes with Dr. Ely.
Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely-3/
Topics & Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
7:06 Importance of family in ICU care, especially with cultural/language issues
13:08 Testimonial injustice, the A2F Bundle, and a billionaire in the ICU
17:17 COVID & nurse burnout
20:13 Caring nonjudgmentally for patients regardless of their vaccine choices
24:56 The ethics of fetal stem cell lines in vaccine development (and some surprising truth)
28:30 Therapeutics analysis: ivermectin, JAK inhibitors, baricitinib
38:50 Allowing ourselves to feel with our patients, the importance of respecting faith paths
46:31 ICU delirium may damage higher cognitive systems and leave emotion intact (elephant and rider/system 1 and system 2)
54:19 The harm of excessive sedation and delirium as a predictor of death
58:53 PASC, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (AKA Long COVID)
01:03:48 Managing delirium and early mobilization in the ICU
01:09:37 Self-forgiveness, shame in medicine, and closing thoughts
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Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd
More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z
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A front-line critical care doc talks about why preserving quality of life AFTER an ICU stay matters...a LOT.
Dr. Wes Ely's book, Every Deep-Drawn Breath, is available now. Check out the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center here. Here's our other episodes with Dr. Ely.
Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely-3/
Topics & Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
7:06 Importance of family in ICU care, especially with cultural/language issues
13:08 Testimonial injustice, the A2F Bundle, and a billionaire in the ICU
17:17 COVID & nurse burnout
20:13 Caring nonjudgmentally for patients regardless of their vaccine choices
24:56 The ethics of fetal stem cell lines in vaccine development (and some surprising truth)
28:30 Therapeutics analysis: ivermectin, JAK inhibitors, baricitinib
38:50 Allowing ourselves to feel with our patients, the importance of respecting faith paths
46:31 ICU delirium may damage higher cognitive systems and leave emotion intact (elephant and rider/system 1 and system 2)
54:19 The harm of excessive sedation and delirium as a predictor of death
58:53 PASC, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (AKA Long COVID)
01:03:48 Managing delirium and early mobilization in the ICU
01:09:37 Self-forgiveness, shame in medicine, and closing thoughts
Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd
Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd
More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 hr 18 min