Humility & Love 🖼️ 🎥 📍Watch Greg - 59 yo man w Down Syndrome- paint! 📍Greg is happier than most people I’ve ever known 📍Greg teaches me my value is independent of education, color or creed 📍Greg reminds me beauty is found in simplicity, honesty, and truth. #UpSyndrome

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) describe the process and rationale for the development of the 2024 definition of persistent Covid-19 symptoms (long Covid). Read the Sounding Board article: nej.md/3SvLlxw

2/ NASEM 2024 Long Covid Definition: “Long Covid is an IACC occurring after SARS-CoV-2 infection & present >=3 months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.” Read caveats in text box…

Systemic inflammation & #delirium in ICU? 🔍1K critically ill pts 🧪higher inflammation markers/lower endogenous anticoagulant activity associated w delirium/coma day following marker measurement + delirium/coma-free days over next week 🔓rdcu.be/dFtSD ⬇️visual abstract

Looking forward to #Walk4PICS next month on Sept 28, 2024. I may be in #Detroit visiting family that weekend - any #ICU survivors and/or family members interested in joining forces for a remote walk??? 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️Detroit Medical Ctr Henry Ford Health Walk4Pics Vanderbilt Neurology

❗️Immobility causes ICUAW, delirium, cognitive decline, ⬇️ QoL ❗️Electrophysiological changes occur 48 h after ICU admission = upregulation of muscle-wasting systems, ⬇️muscle mass, ⬇️functionality, insulin resistance ❗️This may be minimised by early mobilisation in ICU Intensive Care Medicine

Why is this cool?? Because it’s one step closer to making a new element - unbinilium - which would be the heaviest element ever synthesized. What’s cool? Scientist at Berkeley found a new way to make Livermorium (an element with 116 protons! So, just 4 protons away from

I tweeted a tweet about Science! I read the article myself, and wrote the tweet myself and posted it myself. 🥹🥹🥹 I haven't been able to do anything like that for a year and a half. 😭 It only took me three days lol. But I did it.

Look how the leading causes of death in the US have changed over the past 4 years JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

📢Our review "Long COVID science, research and policy" is out in Nature Medicine By Ziyad Al-Aly, MD Hannah Davis Lisa McCorkell Letícia Soares, PhD Sarah Wulf Hanson, PhD Prof. Akiko Iwasaki Eric Topol A thread nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our UCSF Critical Care Medicine ICU early mobility course now includes a virtual zoom option for those too far away! CEUs are only available for in person attendance, but access & join great conversation on zoom:

The restaurant that feeds the homeless too

NEW PREPRINT! This one seems potentially very, VERY SIGNIFICANT! This study found "significant reductions in measures of mitochondrial content and impaired muscle energetics" in LC fatigue—AND a corresponding biomarker! Summary thread (for a general audience!)... 1/many

.Yelena G. Bodien, PhD, a clinical neuroscientist with expertise in brain disorders related to coma, consciousness and TBI has joined VUMC as an investigator in the CIBS Center and assistant professor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery in VUMC Surgical Sciences. bit.ly/4fYxpGr

"Dr. Roberson Shawniqua Williams Roberson, MEng, MD MD of Vanderbilt University will be presented the ANA-Persyst IDEAS Professional Development Award, which recognizes early-career ANA members who are academic neurologists or neuroscientists working in the field of epilepsy and are from

Let families visit their loved ones in the ICU. Open. Visitation. 24. 7. 👇🎶

“Never before have so many Americans redrawn their relationships with work as result of 1 public-health crisis” “People at height of careers in finance, technology & healthcare are operating without clarity on when, or if, they can resume the paths they once laid out” #LongCovid

⭐️30 Days until #walk4pics 2024!! We have over a dozen locations in the US & UK where you can walk with others - or you can walk on your own! Sign up at walk4pics.com and join us as we raise awareness of #PICS & #PICSp! Jim Jackson WesElyMD Walk4Pics Spencer Freeman

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