What does it take to conclude that socioeconomic status is a factor in determining management decisions, outcomes, in critical care. What is «reasonable» in controlling for confounding, and what simply masks the effects of poverty by supposing that other risk factors are distributed equally. Any good pointers, @iwashyna?
Jon Henrik Laake MD PhD
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Chair, Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Consultant anaesthesiologist at Rikshospitalet (ICU), Oslo, Norway. Bibliography: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Laake+jh&sort=date
How many other fraudsters get away with shit like this simply because they stay out of the limelight? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/us/politics/trump-personal-financial-disclosure.html
Jack Iwashyna 🫁Dale Needham teaching today begins with Tom Petty
“I am troubled when I make rounds in critical care units today because of the grotesque and inhuman scenarios that I so frequently encounter. … But what I see these days are paralyzed, sedated patients, lying without motion, appearing to be dead, except for the monitors that tell me otherwise. Why this syndrome of sedation and paralysis has emerged baffles me, because this was not the case in the past.”
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(15)47709-8/fulltext
We favour a common language for clinical practice guidelines. @GRADE_WG offers a framework and terminology that could be adopted by all.
A lingua franca for guidelines—or a Tower of Babel? (With Morten Hylander Møller)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aas.14242#.ZDY9wa9cPLg.twitter
If only Judge Thomas had only half the integrity of these young lawmakers. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html
Justice Thomas hints at corruption at a grand scale in the US Supreme Court. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-travel.html?unlocked_article_code=81N91B_vSr53n2B7yPEg__mMOKytZTV71ju18jKTyVkrn9C7ilyP8-FhR0BYIorWTK-H_jLKnyqAdaITMJZ3y3lFzJgDXNfbfnsZrUGmzkLWxA2OLTvUFypOBcRRbE7EXyNg2OcSwPFkPU2EXvyoqaL3NGYSEKagr96CSrikTog7ATS2mZjgmOMZKlKNTib9hXKyg01TcFL_QOrPuWwZkt5-cJsLgILhlsz4WkHvp560qj0ZY7zqQCtysId6fUXutEJGhL_qV0NzuURcXAMSQnfWoeHdEYeqHZ6yyhgNIDUIwQC3JyiM7CBaYnkr5qqN7B-oAssf50AO2X3hp4PRmH1sI-Rv7Q41-KMzEM3LisHs3g&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Post–COVID-19 condition (PCC; WHO definition) in young people is not linked to Covid-19. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802893?s=03
«Corralling the sick away from public view and discreetly disposing of their bodies is the unvoiced mission of every Western hospital. Whether in a private room or on a crowded ward behind hastily drawn bed curtains, death is sequestered, redefined as medical failure and a shameful public embarrassment.»
https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/relearning-how-to-die/
