Tag: education
There are no wrong questions to ask in the ICU
A common confusion is differentiating between critical care and emergency medicine. Essentially, in emergency medicine, doctors and nurses stabilize patients and then transfer them to the appropriate area of the hospital,... read more
Will You Be My Mentor?
The origins of mentoring date back to Odysseus, who entrusted care of his son to Mentor when he set off to fight the Trojan wars. Mentor became a trusted advisor, teacher, and friend to Telemachus, epitomizing the attributes... read more
Medical Journals in the Age of Ubiquitous Social Media
Medical journals increasingly use social media to engage their audiences in a variety of ways, from simply broadcasting content via blogs, micro-blogs, and podcasts to more interactive methods such as Twitter chats and online... read more
Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support
As a result of a collaboration between the NAM and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, this NAM Special Publication summarizes and builds upon a meeting series in which a multi-stakeholder... read more
Despite My Best Intentions
The resident looked worried and the intern was nervous. They were concerned about an elderly patient with low cardiac output heart failure. We reviewed our plans for the day, and as we entered his intensive care unit (ICU)... read more
Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills
Learning from others' experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather... read more
Preventing the misuse of ICU visiting hours to reduce inequities
Family participation in healthcare serves to improve outcomes across a broad spectrum of conditions. Current guidelines recommend open family presence in the intensive care unit (ICU) while citing evidence of its safety.... read more
Doctors Feel What It’s Like to Be in the ICU
Immersive art project lets Mount Sinai staff hear noises and feel confined like intensive-care brain trauma patients; a new view of treating unconscious patients.... read more
The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-being
Understanding the business case to reduce burnout and promote engagement as well as overcoming the misperception that nothing meaningful can be done are key steps for organizations to begin to take action. Evidence suggests... read more
The House of God
The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. A phenomenon ever since it was published, The House of God was... read more
Preventing Harm in the ICU – Building a Culture of Safety and Engaging Patients and Families
Preventing harm remains a persistent challenge in the ICU despite evidence-based practices known to reduce the prevalence of adverse events. This review seeks to describe the critical role of safety culture and patient and... read more
Building Critical Care Community Through Twitter Chat
Twitter chats can be a powerful tool for the widespread engagement of a medical audience. Social media sites such as Twitter can significantly enhance education and advocacy efforts. In 2013, the American College of Chest... read more
Safety Hazards During Intrahospital Transport
A prospective observational study. Data from participant observations of the intrahospital transport process were collected over a period of 3 months. Findings suggest that intrahospital transport is a hazardous process for... read more
The Glass Door of the Patient Room
Poor communication among health-care providers is cited as the most common cause of sentinel events involving patients. Our goal was to create a novel, easily accessible communication device to improve ICU patient care. Due... read more
Reduction of Laboratory Utilization in the ICU
In our academic ICU, there is excess ordering of routine laboratory tests. This is partially due to a lack of transparency of laboratory-processing costs and to the admission order plans that favor daily laboratory test orders.... read more
