Reading Time: 7 minutes Decision-making in medicine can be extremely complex; we all rely on a number of heuristics to make the thousands of decisions a shift for our patients.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief In our previous conversation we covered the art of the deep breath and how beneficial this can be…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes ACLS, ATLS, ECLS; most intensivists can recite the resuscitative alphabet with relative ease. At some point, though, we cannot save…
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Reading Time: 8 minutes In the entire continuum of acute critical illness, health disparities have been observed from individual susceptibility to clinical presentation to medical treatment to final outcomes. The first step to change is awareness.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Death is never easy, but we hope these tips from Dr. Ramaswamy will help you improve the quality of life of your terminally ill patients.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Tribalism can affect physicians deeply, but we can overcome it together!
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Burnout can be dangerous for healthcare professionals, but there are ways to combat it. Check out this post on some techniques to stay connected and healthy.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Antifragility leads to strength when one is able to properly recover after a stress. In order to be antifragile resuscitationists, we must choose this path.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Debriefing is crucial to developing you and your team while caring for critically ill patients. Here are some important steps for your next debrief!
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Dr. Sunil Ramaswamy teaches us to use a deep breath to focus ourselves before caring for a critically ill patient.