From the classroom to the emergency room, O-R and beyond.

You're joining trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

When Osler talks about equanimitas and equanimity and distancing ourselves so that we don't get hurt,

I have found that there's a healthy balance between working

through a practice of equanimitas versus holding hands, making eye contact, diving in deep with

my patients. And I call that a burnout prevention program because I can't get burned out if I

immerse myself into the lives of these people

and they also likewise bring me into their inner circle.

That to me is the most robust payback that I could ever ask for in medicine to be considered

in somebody's front row.

And we did away with it in COVID, but it's time to

re-up that, realize this is why we're here. These are the people we're here to serve. And that

essentially is the entire message in every deep-drawn breath is these are real people. I'm a real

person. We're there to serve one another.

That's Dr. Wes Ely. Dr. Ely is a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of

Medicine with subspecialty training in pulmonary and critical care of medicine.

He's also the co-director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain Disfunction, and Survivorship,

and Dr. Ely's

research over the years has focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill

patients with ICU acquired brain disease. For those of you familiar with the CAM ICU tool

for assessing for the presence of ICU delirium, yes, Dr. Ely and his team developed this tool, and it's been translated into over

30 languages and is used to measure delirium in ICU-based clinical trials, as well as clinically

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