Critical care survivor/advocate - Emory Univ. MPH #postintensivecaresyndrome & #PTSD #Survivor Bill W=Friend Views=Mine https://xitter.cf/t.co/N56CuTdzHP
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8 years ago today, I began an unexpected journey from SICK to RECOVERING. I ain’t done. Today, I reflect on my struggle from the #ICU, to my new life. Grateful for this milestone & praying other EtOH’s also find Doctors & Nurses who don’t give up on them!🥰 #Walk4PICS #MedX #LOVE
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SNAP-3: 7,128 UK patients aged 60 and over having surgery in 214 hospitals. Median hospital stay was 12.5 days with delirium and 1 day without.
After adjusting for age, frailty, multimorbidity and type of surgery, delirium added 5.2 days (95% CI 3.8 to 6.5), and the odds of death within a year doubled. Observational, so some influences were not measured.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2026.0…
It was a privilege & a pleasure. Thank you @ANZDA_delirium
10 years on from critical illness, the long term impacts (sequelae 😉) of delirium are obvious. & I’m very fortunate symptoms not worse. I am SO grateful for my care & yet it was not without cost. LOVE ICU CLINICIANS
#12 Spencer Freeman and the experience of delirium podbean.com/eas/pb-wafq7-1b7… Powerful and moving message for clinicians on making the invisible visible in delirium care @boehmleanne @andyteodorczuk @EelesEamonn @SGFesquire @AmerDelirium @EDA_delirium @LADIG_Delirium @ScotDelirium
These two guys were VITAL to my recovery. Great Friday message @KellyCasey_OT
Hi from Sherlock & Watson! 🐾
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Delirium care crosses professional boundaries.
Medical treatment, nursing care, therapy, pharmacy and family knowledge all contribute.
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Waiting for the delirium guidelines to be implemented. Still waiting. Published 2010. #delirium
ALT Sad Pablo Escobar meme, three panels. Top, a man sits alone on a garden swing seat: "WAITING FOR THE DELIRIUM GUIDELINES TO BE IMPLEMENTED". Bottom left, slumped at a kitchen table: "STILL WAITING". Bottom right, standing alone by an empty pool: "PUBLISHED 2010".
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Publishing delirium research should not require a four-figure fee.
Delirium is open access: €20 to submit and a €280 APC on acceptance. Peer review is estimated to take 4–6 weeks under normal circumstances.
deliriumjournal.com/for-auth…
#Delirium
“No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.”
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I owe God & many people so much. My chip, & two pictures showing how far one can travel, if we become honest & willing. My bed & my paragon @WesElyMD – at Atlanta, GA
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“When they first popped it on, it was like Christmas” 🎄
A patient getting an inline speaking valve in the #ICU - a powerful reminder of why this skill matters for #SLP.
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I'm sick of the collective complacency and mediocrity around delirium care.
It's like we all give each other permission to just be collectively crap at it.
Low standards that we would never accept for any other emergency condition.
#delirium
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Publishing delirium research should not require a four-figure fee.
Delirium is open access: €20 to submit and a €280 APC on acceptance. Peer review is estimated to take 4–6 weeks under normal circumstances.
deliriumjournal.com/for-auth…
#Delirium
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Mrs A, 82, was admitted "off legs and confused". A urine dip was positive, a diagnosis of "urosepsis" was written, antibiotics started, and everyone relaxed.
She did not improve. On day three someone finally examined properly: she was dry as a bone, and her chest crackled at the right base. The urine had told us nothing except that she was old and had bacteria in her bladder, as many older women do without it meaning anything.
Rehydration and the right antibiotic for her pneumonia, and her mind came back.
A positive dip in an older person with delirium is not a diagnosis. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common, and treating it while the real cause hides is one of the easiest mistakes in geriatric medicine. Examine the whole patient before you blame the bladder. #delirium