teleICU

It can be easy to forget, considering all the COVID-related information deluging us daily, but the entirety of the U.S. pandemic response came down to ICU statistics. Phrases like “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread” became ubiquitous in March and April […]

The challenge of cost-effective ICU staffing is easy to sum up: how to match high variability in patient acuity and volume with the fixed costs of staffing, space, and equipment to care for those patients. Easy to sum up—yet difficult to address. […]

By Dr. David Fedor I was a fellow when I did my first proning procedure. We assigned roles, we looked after the lines, tubes, and drains, we discussed proper communications, and then we flipped the patient. Unfortunately, my attending hadn’t prepared me […]

By Dr. Bill Krimsky Picture this: it’s the dead of winter in the North Country of New Hampshire, in a little town called Colebrook. Population just over 2,000, basically a sleigh ride from the Canadian border, snow as far as the eye […]