“Every person is priceless, no matter how much disease they’ve got.”  This is what my guest  in this podcast, Dr. Wes Ely left our listeners with during the interview.  Dr. Wes Ely is is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical care physician and the author of a new book entitled “Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU.”

In this interview, we speak about COVID and other critical illness, ICU care and  his safety program called the A2F Bundle which is now being implemented, studied and adopted by ICU teams around the world.  A2F Bundle has the following components:

A  – Assess, Prevent and Manage Pain, B – Both Spontaneous Awakening Trials & Spontaneous Breathing Trials, C – Choice of Analgesia and Sedation, D – Delirium: Assess, Prevent and Manage Pain, E – Early Mobility and Exercise, F – Family Engagement and Empowerment

I invite you to listen to this great podcast with Dr. Wes Ely while we explore questions for the listeners about great path towards getting your life back even after profound COVID and ICU stays  If you would like to learn more about Dr. Ely and his book, please click here to be directed to his website.

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical care physician. Dr. Ely earned his MD at Tulane University School of Medicine, in conjunction with a Masters in Public Health. He serves as the Grant W. Liddle endowed chair in medicine and is a physician-scientist and tenured professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also the associate director of aging research for the Tennessee Valley Veteran’s Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC). He is the founder and codirector of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, an organization devoted to research and ongoing care for patients and families affected by critical illness. Dr. Ely has had numerous studies published in The New England Journal, JAMA, and The Lancet, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and numerous other publications. He lives in Nashville.

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