From the classroom to the emergency room, O.R. and beyond. You're joining Trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

Thanks for joining us on trauma ICU rounds. I'm your host, Dr. Dennis Kim. And joining me on rounds this week is Dr. Scott Brackenridge.

Dr. Brackenridge is an associate professor of surgery with tenure in the Division of Acute

Care Surgery at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the Center co-investigator at the

University of Florida, sepsis and critical illness research center.

He completed his general surgery residency training at UT Southwestern,

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, followed by a trauma surgical critical care

fellowship at the University of Washington, Harbor View Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.

And Scott, I want to say a big congrats to you. I saw on social media just within the last

couple of weeks. You have made the announcement that you are in fact returning to Harborview.

So congrats on that. Thanks, Dennis. It's great to be on the show and really excited to be here

to talk about this stuff. And yeah, it's also exciting to when you always, it's always great to

have a chance to go back and contribute to a place that built you up. So it's exciting times for sure.

So this term picks, Scott, you know, when I look at previous research and articles that you and your

group at the University of Florida have written on this, PIC stands for persistent inflammation,

immunosuppression, and catabolism after shock.

And more recently, I've seen PICS used in another context.

And I kind of get confused between the two and whether or not they're sort of the same

thing with a different name, but the post-intensive care syndrome.

Are we talking about the same thing here?

It is easy to kind of get tied up in all these acronyms, and especially when they're

developed by different people who are studying similar things and kind of end up things

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