The Neurocritical Care Division had a strong showing at the Neurocritical Care Society Annual Meeting in San Diego Oct 14-17. They were so many (~20 or more) that they were never able to get a picture with everyone together!
GRANTS
Lee Goeddel, MD, MPH, was awarded a FAER Mentored Research Training Grant for his project entitled “Examining Cardiac Output, Renal Perfusion, and Acute Kidney Injury During Cardiac Surgery Using Urinary Biomarkers of Renal Tubular Injury and Doppler Ultrasound of Renal Vein Blood Flow”.
Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD, is a Co-Investigator on a recently awarded HEAL KIDS/NICHD U01 titled “OPTICOM (Optimizing Pain Treatment In Children On Mechanical ventilation)”. The primary objective of OPTICOM is to define the effectiveness of supplementing opioids with acetaminophen and/or ketorolac at decreasing episodes of acute pain in children with acute respiratory failure on mechanical ventilation.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HONORS
Awards
Deondra Asike, MD, received the Distinguished Committee Chair Award from the Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi) for her outstanding contributions to MedChi as the Chair of the Cannabis Committee.
Lee Goeddel, MD, MPH, received the inaugural Alison Cole MRTG award for the best scoring FAER grant.
Yvette James received the ACCM Excellence in Administration award.
Aileen Mendez, MS, CRNA, received the ACCM Excellence in Nurse Anesthesia award.
Katie O’Conor, MD, received the ACCM Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion award.
Rashmi Prasad, MD, received the ACCM Excellence in Professionalism award.
Kara Segna, MD, received the ACCM Humanism in Medicine award.
Vishank Shah, MD, received the ACCM Outstanding Citizenship award.
Jochen Steppan, MD, DESA, FAHA, FASA, received the ACCM Excellence in Basic Science Research award.
Promotions and Appointments
Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD, MPP, was appointed as Board Director to the California Council of Economic Education.
Lakshmi Santhanam, PhD, was appointed as CMM Associate Director for Curriculum and Training.
Joanne Shay, MD, MBA, was promoted to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
Kara Segna, MD, became the Chair for the Committee on Scientific Poster Abstracts for the American Academy of Pain
Diane Soltys accepted the position of Executive Assistant to Danny Muehlschlegel as of October 1, 2024.
Robert Thomsen, MD, was elected Assistant Treasurer of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Emmett Whitaker, MD, FAAP, was promoted to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
Other Accomplishments and Honors
Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE, presented at the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) meeting in Freiburg, Germany. She addressed “New Trends in Interventional Procedures”. She also created and co-moderated a joint session of the SCA and the EACTAIC on “North American and European Practices: Dilemmas, Debated and Discussion”.
Allison Fernandez, MD, MBA, was featured in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting Daily News article “Trailblazing Women”. https://www.asameetingnewscentral.com/pediatric-anesthesia/article/22922766/trailblazing-women
Steve Frank, MD, gave grand rounds titled “Evidence-based Transfusion Practice and Blood Management Programs” to the department of anesthesiology at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan (virtually).
Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD, MPP, presented on “Women And Pain Best Practices” at the September 2024 California Osteopathic Physicians Annual Meeting.
Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD, FCCM, was featured in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting Daily News article “Trailblazing Women”. https://www.asameetingnewscentral.com/pediatric-anesthesia/article/22922766/trailblazing-women
John B. Sampson, MD, will be delivering a presentation about “Government Partnerships for Health System Strengthening Learning” to the Stanford University Global Health Equity Series on World Pneumonia Day, November 12. Additionally, Dr. Sampson will be delivering a presentation entitled “Climate Sensitive and Energy-Efficient Oxygen Solutions: Lessons from the AIRS Project” for Every Breath Counts for World Pneumonia Day on November 12 at 11:50am ET. All are invited to attend and can register via this Zoom link.
Kara Segna, MD, was invited to give Grand Rounds in October at the University of Cincinnati on “Navigating Pain Management in Older Adults: Effective Strategies and Customized Approaches for Optimal Geriatric Care”.
M-Irfan Suleman, MD, FAAP, FASA, was named “Top Doctor 2024” again—five years in a row—in Baltimore Magazine. There were 150 providers from across Johns Hopkins Medicine recognized in the magazine’s 35th annual Top Doctors survey. More than 20,000 physicians were nominated for this recognition; only 6% of those physicians were recognized as Top Doctors. Dr. Suleman was also an invited speaker for MEDTALK and will give a presentation entitled “Persistent Pain! It’s in Her Head?” on November 14 for the Montgomery County Medical Society in Bethesda, MD.
Jed Wolpaw, MD, MEd, FASA, hosted a live ACCRAC podcast from ASA on October 19, where he interviewed Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, the Secretary of Health for the State of Pennsylvania.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
Basic and Translational Research
Doucette L, Turnbill V, Carlin K, Cavanagh A, Sollinger B, Kuter N, Flock DL, Robinson S, Chavez-Valdez R, Jantzie L, Martin LJ, Northington FJ. Neocortical cholinergic pathology after neonatal brain injury is increased by Alzheimer’s disease-related genes in mice. Neurobiol Dis. 2024 Oct 1;200:106629. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106629.
Han X, Liu G, Lee SS, Yang X, Wu MN, Lu H, Wei Z. Metabolic and vascular imaging markers for investigating Alzheimer’s disease complicated by sleep fragmentation in mice. Front Physiol. 2024 Sep 20;15:1456690. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1456690.
Lefebvre AT, Rodriguez CL, Bar-Kochba E, Steiner NE, Mirski M, Blodgett DW. High-resolution transcranial optical imaging of in vivo neural activity. Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 21;14(1):24756. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-70876-8.
Limerick G, Uniyal A, Ford N, He S, Grenald SA, Zhang C, Cui X, Sivanesan E, Dong X, Guan Y, Raja SN. Peripherally restricted cannabinoid and mu-opioid receptor agonists synergistically attenuate neuropathic mechanical hypersensitivity in mice. Pain. 2024 Nov 1;165(11):2563-2577. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003278.
Ma Z, Liu T, Liu L, Pei Y, Wang T, Wang Z, Guan Y, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Chen X. Epidermal neural crest stem cell conditioned medium enhances spinal cord injury recovery via PI3K/AKT-mediated neuronal apoptosis suppression. Neurochem Res. 2024 Oct;49(10):2854-2870. doi: 10.1007/s11064-024-04207-8.
Steppan J, Wang H, Nandakumar K, Gadkari M, Poe A, Pak L, Brady T, Berkowitz DE, Shimoda LA, Santhanam L. LOXL2 inhibition ameliorates pulmonary artery remodeling in pulmonary hypertension. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2024 Oct 1;327(4):L423-L438. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00327.2023.
Yao M, Wei Z, Nielsen JS, Ouyang Y, Kakazu A, Wang H, Du L, Li R, Chu T, Scafidi S, Lu H, Aggarwal M, Duan W. Senolytic therapy preserves blood-brain barrier integrity and promotes microglia homeostasis in a tauopathy model. Neurobiol Dis. 2024 Oct 21;202:106711. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106711. Epub ahead of print.
Zhang Z, Hou Z, Han M, Guo P, Chen K, Qin J, Tang Y, Yang F. Amygdala-targeted relief of neuropathic pain: efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in NLRP3 pathway suppression. Mol Neurobiol. 2024 Nov;61(11):8904-8920. doi: 10.1007/s12035-024-04087-7.
Clinical Research
Ahmad SA, Mayasi Y, Kelley TN, White N, Suen JY, Battaglini D, Li Bassi G, Fraser JF, Premraj L, Arora RC, Bastos Porto D, Whitman GJR, Griffee MJ, Fanning J, Robba C, Cho SM, on behalf of COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium. Neurological complications and outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19: results from International Neurological Study Group From the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium. Neurohospitalist. 2024. doi:10.1177/19418744241292487. Epub ahead of print.
Azamfirei R, Behrens D, Padilla S, Madden K, Goldberg S, Geno M, Manning MJ, Piole M, Madsen E, Maue D, Abu-Sultaneh S, Awojoodu R, Wang NY, Needham DM, Neufeld K, Kudchadkar SR. Delirium screening in critically ill children: secondary analysis of the multicenter PICU Up! Pilot Trial dataset, 2019-2020. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;25(10):880-888. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003555.
Battaglini D, Kelly TL, Griffee M, Fanning J, Premraj L, Whitman G, Porto DB, Arora R, Thomson D, Pelosi P, White NM, Bassi GL, Suen J, Fraser JF, Robba C, Cho SM; COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium Investigators. Stroke in critically ill patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19: Disparities between low-middle and high-income countries. Heart Lung. 2024 Nov-Dec;68:131-144. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2024.06.015.
Candrea DN, Shah S, Luo S, Angrick M, Rabbani Q, Coogan C, Milsap GW, Nathan KC, Wester BA, Anderson WS, Rosenblatt KR, Uchil A, Clawson L, Maragakis NJ, Vansteensel MJ, Tenore FV, Ramsey NF, Fifer MS, Crone NE. A click-based electrocorticographic brain-computer interface enables long-term high-performance switch scan spelling. Commun Med (Lond). 2024 Oct 22;4(1):207. doi: 10.1038/s43856-024-00635-3.
Casella JF, Furstenau DK, Adams RJ, Brambilla DJ, Lebensburger JD, Fehr JJ, Jordan LC, King AA, Ichord RN, McKinstry RC, Kraut MA, Shaw DW, White DA, Whyte-Stewart DA, Avadhani R, Barron-Casella EA, Cannon AD, Eaton CK, Riekert KA, Shay JE, Smith-Seidel CA, Weiss DC, Ostapkovich ND, Vermillion K, Treine KE, Kingsbury CE, Strouse JJ, Thompson RE, Hanley DF. Hydroxyurea to prevent brain injury in children with sickle cell disease (HU Prevent)-A randomized, placebo-controlled phase II feasibility/pilot study. Am J Hematol. 2024 Oct;99(10):1906-1916. doi: 10.1002/ajh.27423.
Chen D, Mirski MA, Chen S, Bryden WA, McLoughlin M, Kiser KM, Caton ER, Haddaway CR, Cetta MS, Pan Y. A breath-based in vitro diagnostic assay for the detection of lower respiratory tract infections. PNAS Nexus. 2024 Sep 24;3(9):pgae350. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae350.
Cho SM, Khanduja S, Wilcox C, Dinh K, Kim J, Kang JK, Chinedozi ID, Darby Z, Acton M, Rando H, Briscoe J, Bush EL, Sair HI, Pitts J, Arlinghaus LR, Wandji AN, Moreno E, Torres G, Akkanti B, Gavito-Higuera J, Keller S, Choi HA, Kim BS, Gusdon A, Whitman GJ; SAFE MRI ECMO Investigators. Clinical use of bedside portable ultra-low-field brain magnetic resonance imaging in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: results from the Multicenter SAFE MRI ECMO Study. Circulation. 2024 Sep 29. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.069187. Epub ahead of print.
Choi UE, Nicholson RC, Thomas AJ, Crowe EP, Ulatowski JA, Resar LMS, Hensley NB, Frank SM. A propensity-matched cohort study of intravenous iron versus red cell transfusions for preoperative iron-deficiency anemia. Anesth Analg. 2024 Nov 1;139(5):969-977. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006974.
Cohen SP, Doshi TL, Munjupong CS, Qian C, Chalermkitpanit P, Pannangpetch P, Noragrai K, Wang EJ, Williams KA, Christo PJ, Euasobhon P, Ross J, Sivanesan E, Ukritchon S, Tontisirin N. Multicenter, randomized, controlled comparative-effectiveness study comparing virtual reality to sedation and standard local anesthetic for pain and anxiety during epidural steroid injections. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2024 Jun 25;27:100437. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2024.100437.
Doane K, Guffey D, Loftis LL, Nguyen TC, Musick MA, Ruth A, Coleman RD, Teruya J, Allen C, Bembea MM, Boville B, Furlong-Dillard J, Kaipa S, Leimanis M, Malone MP, Rasmussen LK, Said A, Steiner ME, Tzanetos DT, Viamonte H, Wallenkamp L, Saini A. Short-term neurologic outcomes in pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation are proportional to bleeding severity graded by a novel bleeding scale. Perfusion. 2024 Oct 18:2676591241293673. doi: 10.1177/02676591241293673. Epub ahead of print.
Fahrner MG, Hwang J, Cho SM, Thakor NV, Habela CW, Kaplan PW, Geocadin RG. EEG reactivity in neurologic prognostication in post-cardiac arrest patients: A narrative review. Resuscitation. 2024 Sep 12;204:110398. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2024.110398. Epub ahead of print.
Feng CY, Kolchinski A, Kapoor S, Khanduja S, Hwang J, Suarez JI, Geocadin RG, Kim BS, Whitman G, Cho SM; HERALD Investigators. Prevalence and neurological outcomes of comatose patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Nov;38(11):2693-2701. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.07.010.
Fowler CA, Roddy M, Havlicek E, Sochet AA. Vitamin K prescribing trends among critically ill children hospitalized for sepsis: a multicenter observational cohort study. J Intensive Care Med. 2024 Nov;39(11):1093-1098. doi: 10.1177/08850666241252419.
Giglio A, Reccius A, Regueira T, Carvajal C, Pedreros C, Pino M, Riquelme C, Aguilera S, Ferre A, Suarez JI; Curing Coma Campaign and its Collaborators. Coma prevalence in critical care units in Chile: results of a cross-sectional survey on World Coma Day. Neurocrit Care. 2024 Oct;41(2):393-399. doi: 10.1007/s12028-024-01986-4.
Goeddel LA, Navarrete S, Waldron N, D’Amiano A, Faraday N, Lima JAC, Parikh CR, Bandeen-Roche K, Hays AG, Brown Iv C. Association between left ventricular geometry, systolic ejection time, and estimated glomerular filtration rate in ambulatory patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Cardiology. 2024 Oct 1:1-11. doi: 10.1159/000541725. Epub ahead of print.
Gupta A, Limerick G, Hsu J, Javaheri J, Allahverdian A, Christo PJ. Emerging innovation in pain medicines. Pain Manag. 2024 Jun 2;14(5-6):315-321. doi: 10.1080/17581869.2024.2385285.
Jung D, Procaccini D, Roem J, Patel A, Ng DK, Bembea MM, Gobburu JVS. Pharmacokinetics of human plasma-derived antithrombin in pediatric patients supported on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Clin Pharmacol. 2024 Nov;64(11):1382-1390. doi: 10.1002/jcph.2493.
Kang JK, Etchill E, Verdi K, Velez AK, Kearney S, Dodd-O J, Bush E, By S, Boskamp E, Wilcox C, Choi CW, Kim BS, Whitman GJR, Cho SM. Ultra-low-field portable MRI and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: preclinical safety testing. Crit Care Explor. 2024 Oct 18;6(10):e1169. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001169.
Lee R, Helmy S, Cardona J, Zhao D, Rector R, Rabin J, Mazzeffi M, Cho SM, Parikh G, Morris NA, Khan I. Neurosurgical procedures in patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Crit Care Explor. 2024 Oct 21;6(10):e1166. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001166.
Premraj L, Weaver NA, Ahmad SA, White N, Whitman G, Arora R, Battaglini D, Fanning J, Dalton H, Suen J, Li Bassi G, Fraser JF, Robba C, Griffee M, Cho SM; COVID-19 CCC investigators. Sex differences in the outcome of critically ill patients with COVID-19 – an international multicenter critical care consortium study. Heart Lung. 2024 Nov-Dec;68:373-380. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2024.09.001.
Price MD, McDermott KM, Gorijavolu R, Chidiac C, Li Y, Hoops K, Slidell MB, Nasr IW. Pediatric firearm reinjury: a retrospective statewide risk factor analysis. J Surg Res. 2024 Oct 19;303:568-578. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2024.09.066. Epub ahead of print.
Ran KR, Alfonzo Horowitz M, Liu J, Vattipally VN, Dardick JM, Williams JR, Rincon-Torroella J, Xu R, Mukherjee D, Haut ER, Suarez JI, Huang J, Bettegowda C, Azad TD, Byrne JP. Evaluation of the Glasgow Coma Scale-Pupils score for predicting inpatient mortality among patients with traumatic subdural hematoma at United States trauma centers. J Neurosurg. 2024 May 3;141(4):908-916. doi: 10.3171/2024.2.JNS232695.
Suh L, Buckley JR, Hook JE, Delany DR, Kavarana MN, Chowdhury SM, Hollinger LE, Costello JM. Risk factors and outcomes of perioperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonates and infants undergoing truncus arteriosus repair. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2024 Oct 25:21501351241279121. doi: 10.1177/21501351241279121. Epub ahead of print.
Taran S, Stevens RD. Does lung protective ventilation work in acute brain injury? Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 15. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202409-1766ED. Epub ahead of print.
Taylor RS, Neville Q, Mullin CM, Mekhail NA, Kallewaard JW, Hayek S, Pope JE, Hunter CW, Costandi SJ, Kapural L, Gilmore CA, Petersen EA, Patel KV, Eldabe S, Levy RM, Gilligan C, Durbhakula S, Abd-Elsayed A, Bedder M, Buchanan P, Hanson E, Leitner A, Soliday N, Duarte RV, Clauw DJ, Nurmikko TJ. Validation of a holistic composite outcome measure for the evaluation of chronic pain interventions. Pain Rep. 2024 Oct 14;9(6):e1202. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000001202.
Zhang S, Tamargo RJ, Bergmann J, Gottschalk A, Steppan J. The relationship between intraoperative surrogates of vascular stiffness, cerebral aneurysms, and surgical outcomes. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2024 Nov;33(11):108003. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2024.108003.
Editorials and Commentaries
Carhuapoma JR. Toward a more culture-centered, humane, ethical, and inclusive care of persons with disorders of consciousness. Neurocrit Care. 2024 Oct;41(2):328-329. doi: 10.1007/s12028-024-02014-1.
Garg A, Kudchadkar SR. The need to screen: unpacking acute on chronic social risks for our patients and families in critical need. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;25(10):975-977. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003593.
Gertz SJ, Kudchadkar SR. Women in pediatric critical care medicine: translating the truth in the trend. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;25(10):963-965. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003602.
Grant MC, Arora RC. Avoiding the things that can go bump in the night after cardiac surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 Oct 21:S0003-4975(24)00872-5. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2024.09.050.
Gregory A, Ender J, Shaw AD, Denault A, Ibekwe S, Stoppe C, Alli A, Manning MW, Brodt JL, Galhardo C, Sander M, Zarbock A, Fletcher N, Ghadimi K, Grant MC. ERAS/STS 2024 expert consensus statement on perioperative care in cardiac surgery: continuing the evolution of optimized patient care and recovery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Oct;38(10):2155-2162. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.06.025.
Gupta, A. Five ways AI is advancing the future of health. Forbes; 1 Nov 2023. https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/11/01/five-ways-ai-is-advancing-the-future-of-health/
Gupta, A. How your diet affects your pain. WebMD; 8 Oct 2024. https://blogs.webmd.com/pain-management/20241008/how-your-diet-affects-your-pain
Hensley NB, Frank SM, Nemergut EC, Neely GA. Pro-con debate: anesthesiologists should be responsible for treating preoperative anemia. Anesth Analg. 2024 Sep 9. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006854.
Hensley NB, Kajstura TJ, Frank SM. Patient blood management in cardiac surgery: Finding the low hanging and cost effective fruit. J Clin Anesth. 2024 Oct;97:111581. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111581.
Kanjia MK, Kurth CD, Hyman D, Williams E, Varughese A. Perspectives on anesthesia and perioperative patient safety: past, present, and future. Anesthesiology. 2024 Nov 1;141(5):835-848. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005164.
Karamnov S, Dimentberg R, Cornella L, Shook DC, Nyman C, Shernan SK, Body SC, Muehlschlegel JD. Fostering a new generation of cardiothoracic anesthesiology clinician-scientists: a systematic approach. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Oct;38(10):2169-2172. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.05.020.
Nyquist P, Lefebvre AT. The use of ultrasound to measure optic nerve sheath diameter: shadows of the black box. Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;52(10):1651-1653. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006355.
Vanderhoek SM, Varughese AM, Kudchadkar SR. Pediatric ambulatory anesthesia: confronting challenges, embracing opportunities. Anesth Analg. 2024 Oct 18. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007169.
Education and Training
Bedford J, Fields KG, Collins GS, Lip GYH, Clifton DA, O’Brien B, Muehlschlegel JD, Watkinson PJ, Redfern OC. Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: identifying candidate predictors through a Delphi process. BMJ Open. 2024 Sep 25;14(9):e086589. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086589.
Cho SM, Antonini MV, MacLaren G, Zaaqoq AM, Lorusso R. Highlights of the 2024 ELSO consensus guidelines on neurological monitoring and management for adult ECMO. ASAIO J. 2024 Oct 4. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002324.
Cho SM, Hwang J, Chiarini G, Amer M, Antonini MV, Barrett N, Belohlavek J, Brodie D, Dalton HJ, Diaz R, Elhazmi A, Tahsili-Fahadan P, Fanning J, Fraser J, Hoskote A, Jung JS, Lotz C, MacLaren G, Peek G, Polito A, Pudil J, Raman L, Ramanathan K, Dos Reis Miranda D, Rob D, Salazar Rojas L, Taccone FS, Whitman G, Zaaqoq AM, Lorusso R. Neurological monitoring and management for adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients: Extracorporeal Life Support Organization consensus guidelines. Crit Care. 2024 Sep 6;28(1):296. doi: 10.1186/s13054-024-05082-z. Erratum in: Crit Care. 2024 Oct 7;28(1):327. doi: 10.1186/s13054-024-05107-7.
Murtaugh B, Olson DM, Badjatia N, Lewis A, Aiyagari V, Sharma K, Creutzfeldt CJ, Falcone GJ, Shapiro-Rosenbaum A, Zink EK, Suarez JI, Silva GS; Curing Coma Collaborators. Caring for coma after severe brain injury: clinical practices and challenges to improve outcomes: an initiative by the Curing Coma Campaign. Neurocrit Care. 2024 Oct 21. doi: 10.1007/s12028-024-02116-w.
Health Equity
Ahmed W, Hardey M, Winters BD, Sarwal A. Racial biases associated with pulse oximetry: longitudinal social network analysis of social media advocacy impact. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Oct 8;26:e56034. doi: 10.2196/56034.
Diaz MM, Guareña LA, Garcia B, Alarcon-Ruiz CA, Seal SM, Rubinos C, Cruz-Oliver DM, Carhuapoma JR. A scoping review of end-of-life discussions and palliative care: implications for neurological intensive care among Latinos in the U.S. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Aug 24;38:100873. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100873.
Hoops K, Hall E, Ramdath C, Lopez C. Policing of youth in the hospital. Am J Emerg Med. 2024 Sep 29;86:74-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2024.09.061.
Quality Improvement
Karri J, Sivanesan E, Gulati A, Singh V, Sheen S, Yalamuru B, Wang EJ, Javed S, Chung M, Sohini R, Hussain N, D’Souza RS. Peripheral nerve stimulation for pain management: a survey of clinical practice patterns. Neuromodulation. 2024 Oct 11:S1094-7159(24)00676-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.08.011.
Santiago R, Gorenberg BJ, Hurtubise C, Senekki-Florent P, Kudchadkar SR. Speech-language pathologist involvement in the paediatric intensive care unit. Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 2024 Oct;26(5):674-681. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2023.2244195.
Vanderhoek SM, Sklar MB, Zeng Y, Prichett LM, Wolf RM. Navigating advanced diabetes technologies in perioperative practice: a survey of pediatric anesthesiologists. Anesth Analg. 2024 Oct 1;139(4):884-886. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007039.
Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz DW, Xie A, Colantuoni EA, Sick-Samuels A, Miller MR, Arthur A, Aneja A, Kumar U, Milstone AM; Brigh T STAR authorship group. Diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in the pediatric intensive care unit: lessons in implementation from the BrighT STAR Collaborative. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 25;4(1):e148. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.416.
Xie A, Hsu YJ, Speed TJ, Saunders J, Nguyen J, Khasawneh A, Kim S, A Marsteller J, M McDonald E, Shechter R, N Hanna M. The use of telemedicine for perioperative pain management during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Telemed Telecare. 2024 Dec;30(10):1607-1617. doi: 10.1177/1357633X231162399