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Editorial: Financial Toxicity After Hospitalization; Considerations in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Recovery

rom Critical Care Medicine. In this Editorial, the authors comment on an article by Hauschildt et al. (Financial Toxicity After Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A National Qualitative Cohort Study).


What type of conversation would you have with a patient in the ICU who is not vaccinated and whose family has been exposed to COVID-19?

Questions from social media, blogs and the various discussion forums, including the new SCCM COVID-19 Discussion Group, were answered. This microlearning content was taken from the COVID-19 Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinicians: Expert Panel Series held on August 11, 2021


National Research Action Plan on Long COVID

The Research Plan provides the first U.S. government-wide national research agenda focused on advancing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and provision of services and supports for individuals and families experiencing Long COVID. The reports represent the federal government’s response to ensure the acceleration of scientific progress and to provide individuals with Long COVID with the support and services they need. They affirm the U.S. government’s commitment to addressing the impacts of Long COVID with federal government resources, in collaboration with the private sector, and improving our Nation’s health and well-being. 


Services and Supports for Longer-Term Impacts of COVID-19

The Services Report outlines federal services and mechanisms of support available to the public in addressing the longer-term effects of COVID-19. The reports represent the federal government’s response to ensure the acceleration of scientific progress and to provide individuals with Long COVID with the support and services they need. They affirm the U.S. government’s commitment to addressing the impacts of Long COVID with federal government resources, in collaboration with the private sector, and improving our Nation’s health and well-being. 


SCCM Pod-496: Moving From Surviving to Thriving With Long COVID

Millions of people have long COVID and may experience cognitive, mental health, and physical side effects. Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by James C. Jackson, PhD, PsyD, to discuss practical strategies to move patients from merely surviving to thriving. Drawing on research and vast clinical experience with ICU survivors with long COVID, Dr. Jackson highlights the value of acceptance, self-care, boundary setting, social support, and posttraumatic growth—coping strategies that can help patients foster meaningful lives, even in the face of chronic conditions.


Editorial: The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Following Critical Illness—Has the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Demonstrated Their Usefulness or Emphasized Their Downside?

From Critical Care Medicine. This Editorial accompanies the article “Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Outcomes of Mechanically Ventilated Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019’ by Saad et al.


SCCM Pod-492: The Long and Short of Long COVID

COVID-19 survivors who experience severe critical illness are at risk even when they leave the ICU. Long COVID is becoming recognized as a widespread problem, resulting in lower quality of life and productivity. Ludwig H. Lin, MD, is joined by E. Wesley Ely, MD, MHP, MCCM, to discuss the range of symptoms encompassing long COVID, as well as the latest research and treatment. Dr. Ely is a subspecialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who conducts patient-oriented health services research as a professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is a practicing intensivist and the author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU. As associate director for research for the VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, his focus is on geriatric ICU care.