Episode 338: Post-op Delirium With Michelle Humeidan
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
Jed Wolpaw
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this 338th episode I welcome Dr. Michelle Humeidan to the show to discuss post-op delirium. We discuss the prevalence, risk factors, how we can try to prevent it, and her exciting work with cognitive prehabilitation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Ackrek. I'm Jed Wolpaw and I'm thrilled. We have a fabulous |
| 0:18.1 | show for you today. We had an amazing Grand Rounds talk at our place several months ago, and I immediately said we have to have this amazing physician on Ackrak, and I'm so glad that she agreed to come on. And so today we're going to talk about post-opt delirium with Dr. Michelle Humeiden. She's a professor of anesthesiology at the Ohio State University |
| 0:37.9 | at Wexner Medical Center. She's a clinician scientist and a practicing neuroanesthesiologist. |
| 0:42.5 | Her research focuses on preclinical and clinical studies of central nervous system aging |
| 0:46.7 | with the overall goal of optimizing perioperative management of older patients to facilitate |
| 0:52.2 | the best possible functional recovery after surgery for |
| 0:54.8 | these patients. She serves as the medical director for the multidisciplinary enhanced surgical |
| 0:59.2 | recovery program at OSU, and she is the site PI for the multi-center scope trial, sleep, cognition, |
| 1:05.2 | and pain versus ERAS cardiac for post-op delirium funded by the patient-centered outcomes research |
| 1:10.4 | institute, also known as |
| 1:11.5 | Pecori. Thrill to have her here, Michelle, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I'm really looking |
| 1:17.5 | forward to the opportunity to speak with you. Awesome. Well, tell me a little bit about how you got |
| 1:22.6 | interested in post-op delirium in the first place. So I really got interested in this as a medical student toward the end of my, you know, |
| 1:33.3 | clerkship time, which I did at the MD PhD program at the University of Kentucky. |
| 1:38.0 | So that was an eight-year, you know, run. |
| 1:40.3 | That was the traditional two years of kind of classroom-based, and then I went to the lab for |
| 1:46.3 | four years. And then the last two years, I was back, you know, doing my clerkships. And I did my |
| 1:52.8 | PhD in neuroscience. I already had that kind of lens that I brought back to the clinical time. But |
| 1:59.8 | I just got so in, first of all, I loved anesthesia. |
| 2:03.2 | I mean, as soon as I got the chance to try it, I was just totally enamored with everything |
| 2:07.6 | about the OR and just all of the dynamics of it. |
| 2:11.3 | And what really got me interested in delirium was all the focus on optimization that |
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