How Should We Expand Access to Psychedelics While Maintaining an Environment of Peace and Safety?

Psychedelics have long been used by individuals seeking peace and a sense of wellness. This article examines widespread adoption of ketamine as a proxy for psychedelics. For ketamine, there is a need to protect vulnerable persons from exploitation that should be balanced against risks of hypermedicalization.

First-Onset Psychosis After COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been an inciting factor for a wide variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including first-episode psychosis (FEP).

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the current literature on COVID-19 associated postviral FEP.

Methods: A systematic review was completed using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and identified 81 articles that met inclusion criteria.

Ensuring privacy in telemedicine: Ethical and clinical challenges.

Data privacy in telemedicine has been extensively considered and reviewed in the literature, such as explorations of consent, who can access information, and the security of electronic systems. However, privacy breaches are also a potential concern in the physical setting and surroundings of the patient. Here we review clinical situations in which there is unanticipated loss of privacy, as well as potential physical and psychological safety concerns for the patient and others when privacy is limited.

Donepezil treatment is associated with improved outcomes in critically ill dementia patients via a reduction in delirium.

Introduction: During hospital admissions, patients with dementia are at risk for developing delirium, an acute state of brain failure associated with significant morbidity. There are currently no pharmacologic tools to treat or prevent delirium. Decreased cholinergic signaling plays a role in the pathophysiology of both disorders.

Fatigue Symptoms During the First Year Following ARDS.

Background: Fatigue is commonly reported by ARDS survivors, but empirical data are scarce.

Research Question: This study evaluated fatigue prevalence and associated variables in a prospective study of ARDS survivors.

Study Design And Methods: This analysis is part of the ARDSNet Long-Term Outcomes Study (ALTOS) conducted at 38 US hospitals.

Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Burnout Among Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education Trainees: a Systematic Review.

Objective: The authors conducted a systematic review of the published literature to identify interventions to prevent and/or reduce burnout among medical students and residents.

Methods: The authors searched 10 databases (from the start of each through September 21, 2016) using keywords related to burnout, medical education, and prevention. Teams of two authors independently reviewed the search results to select peer-reviewed, English language articles describing educational interventions to prevent and/or reduce burnout among medical students and/or residents that were evaluated using validated burnout measures.

Pulsed laser syntheses of layer-structured WS2 nanomaterials in water.

We used water as an environmental friendly medium for the synthesis of hexagonal WS2 nanoparticles by the pulsed laser method. The materials collected on substrates were oriented with the 2H-WS2 basal planes parallel to the surface. The use of water, UV lasers, and large WS2 targets prevented the nanoparticles from restructuring into inorganic fullerenes, which were observed in research using hydrocarbon solvents, longer wavelength lasers, and dispersed powder targets.