Elizabeth Killien, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU at Seattle Children’s. She earned her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2011. She completed her residency in General Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. She underwent additional training in pediatric trauma research at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in the Pediatric Injury Research Training Program from 2017-2019, and completed her Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology at the University of Washington in 2019. She is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, and American Thoracic Society. Her scholarly work focuses on organ failure after traumatic injury and long-term outcomes after critical illness.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:

1. Define post-intensive care syndrome, recognize the clinical presentation and make the presumptive diagnosis.
2. Recognize common risk factors of post-intensive care syndrome in children.
3. Discuss practical ways to reduce the risk of post-intensive care syndrome in children admitted to the pediatric ICU.
4. Discuss management strategies to optimize the care provided to children suffering from post-intensive care syndrome.
5. Recall key next steps in post-intensive care syndrome research.

References:

Manning, Joseph C. RN, PhD1,2,3; Pinto, Neethi P. MD, MS4; Rennick, Janet E. RN, PhD5,6; Colville, Gillian MPhil, CPsychol7; Curley, Martha A. Q. RN, PhD8,9,10. Conceptualizing Post Intensive Care Syndrome in Children—The PICS-p Framework*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 19(4):p 298-300, April 2018. | DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001476 

https://www.palisi.org/ 

Killien EY, Zimmerman JJ, Di Gennaro JL, Watson RS. Association of Illness Severity With Family Outcomes Following Pediatric Septic Shock. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Jun 15;4(6):e0716. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000716. PMID: 35733611; PMCID: PMC9203075.

Smith MB, Killien EY, Dervan LA, Rivara FP, Weiss NS, Watson RS. The association of severe pain experienced in the pediatric intensive care unit and postdischarge health-related quality of life: A retrospective cohort study. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 Aug;32(8):899-906. d

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