Love and Mercy in the ICU | Wes Ely, MD
The ICU can be a traumatizing place for patients, who are frequently heavily sedated, rendered unable to speak by breathing tubes, isolated by family visit limitations, and sometimes even physically restrained. In fact, a significant proportion of patients discharged from the ICU later develop persistent cognitive impairments and physical disabilities. Over the past two decades, Wes Ely, MD has worked to improve the care of patients in the ICU, leading landmark studies resulting in the d...