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show. All right, today's guest is a specialist in something that we desperately need to talk about

now more than ever, but every day this is an important conversation, which is how do we make sure

we treat our patients in the ICU as the human beings who are suffering that they are? How do we

manage ICU delirium? How do we get them moving? How do we make sure they don't have long-term

consequences of being in a place that would trigger PTSD in anyone if we're not careful? Now Dr.

West Ealy is a medicine and critical care specialist at Vanderbilt. He's also at Nashville,

VA down there, and he is a world expert in exactly this. And he joins us today. Let's just

launch into it. West, thanks for being on the show, man.

Steven, thank you so much for having me. These topics could not be more important. COVID-centric

is to get everything's all COVID all the time. And we know these patients are suffering. They

feel isolated. We're going in in spacesuits. We're not spending enough time at their bedside,

and they're confused. They're getting a lot of sedation. And it's a delirium factory out there.

So we've got to do what we can to mitigate that and to really maximize human dignity in this process.

I love what you just said. It's a delirium factory. What we're doing is en masse trying to save people.

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