Colour information biases facial age estimation and reduces inter-observer variability.

Age estimation is a perceptual task that people perform automatically and effortlessly on a daily basis. Colour has been identified as one of the facial cues that contributes to age perception. To investigate further the role of colour in age perception, we manipulated the chromatic content of facial images holistically.

Critical Care Simulation Education Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Coronaviruses are important emerging human and animal pathogens. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is responsible for the current global pandemic. Early in the course of the pandemic, New York City became one of the world's "hot spots" with more than 250,000 cases and more than 15,000 deaths.

The Mount Sinai Hospital Institute for critical care medicine response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a surge of critically ill patients. This was especially true in New York City. We present a roadmap for hospitals and healthcare systems to prepare for a Pandemic.

Impact of ABCDE Bundle Implementation in the Intensive Care Unit on Specific Patient Costs.

Objectives: To measure the impact of full versus partial ABCDE bundle implementation on specific cost centers and related resource utilization.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Two medical ICUs within Montefiore Health System (Bronx, NY).

The "cheerleader effect" in facial and bodily attractiveness: A result of memory bias and not perceptual encoding.

Individual faces are rated as more attractive when presented in a group compared with when presented individually; a finding dubbed the "cheerleader effect." As a relatively recent discovery, the conditions necessary to observe the effect are not clearly understood. We sought to better define these conditions by examining two parameters associated with the effect.

The Impact of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Use on Patient Mortality and the Availability of Mechanical Ventilators in COVID-19.

How to provide advanced respiratory support for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to maximize population-level survival while optimizing mechanical ventilator access is unknown. To evaluate the use of high-flow nasal cannula for COVID-19 on population-level mortality and ventilator availability. We constructed dynamical (deterministic) simulation models of high-flow nasal cannula and mechanical ventilation use for COVID-19 in the United States.

Magnetic resonance fingerprinting: from evolution to clinical applications.

In 2013, Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) emerged as a method for fast, quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. This paper reviews the current status of MRF up to early 2020 and aims to highlight the advantages MRF can offer medical imaging professionals. By acquiring scan data as pseudorandom samples, MRF elicits a unique signal evolution, or 'fingerprint', from each tissue type.

A multisite study of nurse-reported perceptions and practice of ABCDEF bundle components.

Objectives: ABCDEF bundle implementation in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is associated with dose dependent improvements in patient outcomes. The objective was to compare nurse attitudes about the ABCDEF bundle to self-reported adherence to bundle components.

Research Methodology/design: Cross-sectional study.

Implementing Automated Prone Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome via Simulation-Based Training.

Background: Prone position ventilation (PPV) is recommended for patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, but it remains underused. Interprofessional simulation-based training for PPV has not been described.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a novel interprofessional simulation-based training program on providers' perception of and comfort with PPV and the program's ability to help identify unrecognized safety issues ("latent safety threats") before implementation.

Use of rehabilitation after hip and knee replacement in New Zealand: a national survey.

Aims: Our objective was to describe rehabilitation used before and after joint replacement in New Zealand and evaluate variation based on geography and ethnicity.

Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional questionnaire-based study we recruited participants 45 years or older (n=608) from the New Zealand Joint Registry six months after primary total hip, total knee or uni-compartmental knee replacement.

Results: The cohort was predominantly New Zealand European (89.

Joint replacement rehabilitation and the role of funding source.

Objective: To examine associations between funding source, use of rehabilitation and outcomes after total joint replacement and to evaluate variations based on demographic characteristics.

Design: Cross-sectional, questionnaire-based national survey.

Subjects: Participants aged 45 years or older (n = 522) who received either private or public funding for their surgery, were recruited from the New Zealand Joint Registry 6 months after a total hip, total knee or unicompartmental knee replacement.

Staged Implementation of Awakening and Breathing, Coordination, Delirium Monitoring and Management, and Early Mobilization Bundle Improves Patient Outcomes and Reduces Hospital Costs.

Objectives: To measure the impact of staged implementation of full versus partial ABCDE bundle on mechanical ventilation duration, ICU and hospital lengths of stay, and cost.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Two medical ICUs within Montefiore Healthcare Center (Bronx, NY).

Rehabilitation after total joint replacement: a scoping study.

Purpose: The evidence supporting rehabilitation after joint replacement, while vast, is of variable quality making it difficult for clinicians to apply the best evidence to their practice. We aimed to map key issues for rehabilitation following joint replacement, highlighting potential avenues for new research.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a scoping study including research published between January 2013 and December 2016, evaluating effectiveness of rehabilitation following hip and knee total joint replacement.

Clinical deterioration in older adults with delirium during early hospitalisation: a prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To measure the prevalence and incidence of delirium in older adults as they transition from the emergency department (ED) to the inpatient ward, and to determine the association between delirium during early hospitalisation and subsequent clinical deterioration.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Urban tertiary care hospital in Bronx, New York.

Let's Talk Critical. Development and Evaluation of a Communication Skills Training Program for Critical Care Fellows.

Rationale: Although expert communication between intensive care unit clinicians with patients or surrogates improves patient- and family-centered outcomes, fellows in critical care medicine do not feel adequately trained to conduct family meetings.

Objectives: We aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a communication skills program that could be easily integrated into a U.S.

The association between acute respiratory distress syndrome, delirium, and in-hospital mortality in intensive care unit patients.

Rationale: Both acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and intensive care unit (ICU) delirium are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. However, the risk of delirium and its impact on mortality in ARDS patients is unknown.

Objectives: To determine if ARDS is associated with a higher risk for delirium compared with respiratory failure without ARDS, and to determine the association between ARDS and in-hospital mortality after adjusting for delirium.

Prevalence and impact of active and passive cigarette smoking in acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Objectives: Cigarette smoke exposure has recently been found to be associated with increased susceptibility to trauma- and transfusion-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome. We sought to determine 1) the incidence of cigarette smoke exposure in a diverse multicenter sample of acute respiratory distress syndrome patients and 2) whether cigarette smoke exposure is associated with severity of lung injury and mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Design: Analysis of the Albuterol for the Treatment of Acute Lung Injury and Omega Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network studies.

Can intensive care unit delirium be prevented and reduced? Lessons learned and future directions.

Delirium is a form of acute brain injury that occurs in up to 80% of critically ill patients. It is a source of enormous societal and financial burdens due to increased mortality, prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital stays, and long-term neuropsychological and functional deficits in ICU survivors. These poor outcomes are not only independently associated with the development of delirium but are also associated with increasing delirium duration.

Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for delirium in hospitalized and intensive care unit patients. A systematic review.

Background: Active smokers are prevalent in hospitalized and critically ill patients. Cigarette smoking and nicotine withdrawal may increase delirium in these populations. This systematic review aims to determine whether active cigarette smoking increases the risk for delirium in hospitalized and intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Biomarkers increase detection of active smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in critically ill patients.

Objectives: The association between tobacco smoke exposure and critical illness is not well studied, largely because obtaining an accurate smoking history from critically ill patients is difficult. Biomarkers can provide quantitative data on active and secondhand cigarette smoke exposure. We sought to compare cigarette smoke exposure as measured by biomarkers to exposure by self-report in a cohort of critically ill patients and to determine how well biomarkers of cigarette smoke exposure correlate with each other in this population.