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Lauren Southerland
@lsgeriatricem.bsky.social
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Emergency Medicine doc at Ohio State University, researcher, implementation scientist and geriatrician. Mom to four kids
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acepnation.bsky.social
ACEP is deeply concerned by this week's CDC panel vote to stop recommending hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns. Families deserve vaccine information grounded in science. We urge the CDC to retain the current evidence-based approach. 🔗 below for more.

https://bit.ly/48CPKG6
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
nidus-delirium.bsky.social
Are you an early-stage physician or health professional investigator with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases? The Beeson award is designed to advance your research and leadership skills.

Learn more: www.grants.gov/search-resul...
#delirium @nidus-delirium.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
lsgeriatricem.bsky.social
Nicely done study by my colleague Pedro Curiati and others out of São Paulo- if an older patient needs assistance with ambulatory, give them a walker and training!

Walking Aids and Locomotion Training in the Emergency Department url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Walking Aids and Locomotion Training in the Emergency Department
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness of training and provision of walking aids delivered by physiotherapists, with or without telemonitoring, on mobility among older adults in th...
jamanetwork.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
drmikewiser.bsky.social
I am not kidding when I say that I have considered having an Adulting Party where we all fill out medical advanced directives and witness each others' wills and make sure we've got beneficiaries listed on our bank accounts and the like.
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
infectiousdz.bsky.social
Reports of a suspected viral hemorrhagic fever in Ethiopia: 8 suspected cases, including 2 healthcare workers, and 6 deaths. HCW infections raise concern for direct person-to-person spread or a shared exposure source.
www.afro.who.int/news/ethiopi...
www.addisinsight.net/2025/11/13/s...
Ethiopia reports suspected viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak
Health authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out further investigations and ramping up response after suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever were reported in the country’s South Ethiopia Region.
www.afro.who.int
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
jeremymberg.bsky.social
So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

1/4
a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .
ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
saemaemp.bsky.social
What is an @saemonline.bsky.social #AEMP RxSTAT Chapter?

Your campus hub for emergency medicine pharmacy. Connect with #EMPharmD, get hands-on programming, and lead locally with national support.

Contact aemp_rxstat@saem.org for more information on chapter registration!

#PharmD #EmergencyMedicine
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
tfishermd.bsky.social
In the ER, I see the suffering that results from policy decisions — people sick and injured because our policies don't value our lives.
I’m running for Congress to change that. Join me in building a government that heals: thomasfisherforcongress.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
thesgem.bsky.social
I've had an opportunity to do a structured critical appraisal of the unpublished Henry Ford obs study comparing vax vs unvax using a tool to probe the evidence for its validity & mitigate bias.

Here are my thoughts & I welcome feedback. @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social #MedSky @caulfieldtim.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
lsgeriatricem.bsky.social
I don’t post often, but out in the US somewhere is a young man who donated bone marrow cells to my sister and she is doing really well after the transplant and may get out of the hospital early! Thank you so much for saving her life! #kindness
September 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
acepnation.bsky.social
The changes at CDC are alarming and threaten our nation’s public health infrastructure. Adding preventable stress to our health care system is unacceptable.
Read the joint statement from leading physician organizations via the link below. 🔗

https://bit.ly/3V1KMMX
September 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
abfriedman.com
New work out in JAGS (@agsjournal.bsky.social) today led by Sarah Nessen and Anita Chary: Nurse or Technician Insights Into Cognitive Evaluations in the Emergency Department
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs....
NOTICE‐ED: Nurse or Technician Insights Into Cognitive Evaluations in the Emergency Department
Nurses and ED technicians proposed steps for the screening process that incorporated machine-learning-based screening and two stages of CI screening, requiring EHR support and team-based care. CI, co...
dx.doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut nearly $800 million in National Institutes of Health grants for the study of diseases in minority, gay and transgender communities.
Supreme Court allows nearly $800 million in cuts to NIH grants
The Trump administration said the research was unscientific and went against efforts to end initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
wapo.st
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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jama.com
A JAMA study examined how US children’s health across a broad spectrum of indicators has changed from 2007 to 2023.

Lead author Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD, from @childrensphila.bsky.social shared key insights from the findings with several media outlets. 🧵

ja.ma/44NrNKz #MedSky
July 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ucs.org
In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
annmlipton.bsky.social
It is ironic that they cut the budget for nursing homes so they could increase the budget to arrest many of the people who work in nursing homes.

A bit overkill on the nursing home attacks, really.
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
lizszabo.bsky.social
For older adults, the longer someone stays in the emergency department, the worse the experience can get for them, with higher risks of delirium and death. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Prolonged Emergency Department Stays for Older US Adults
This cross-sectional analysis investigates prolonged emergency department (ED) stays and ED boarding times among older US adults stratified by health care site type.
jamanetwork.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
abfriedman.com
New work on nursing and tech perspectives on cognitive impairment screening in the ED, led by Penn CECPR Fellow Sarah Nessen, and in collaboration with Baylor EM's Anita Chary and others:
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
angus.bsky.social
The democracy that's being dismantled is our American democracy. The research and medical and educational institutions that are being destroyed are American institutions. Not uniquely American, but they're American. I'm an American, and this is my country they're breaking.

It's okay to say that.
June 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Some reasons I signed the #BethesdaDeclaration:

1️⃣ I couldn’t be complicit in harming people anymore

2️⃣ I want my kids to see how to stand up to bullies

3️⃣ They are coming for us anyway - keeping our heads down won’t save us.

Why did you sign? actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
amaclullich.bsky.social
In Ancient Greece, #delirium was known as "phrenitis," a term coined by Hippocrates.

"... the patient may leap from their bed, speak wildly of unseen terrors."
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
josephsakran.bsky.social
Most school shooters don’t get guns from strangers. They get them from home.

We can change that—by locking up firearms and demanding safe storage.

Because one locked gun could save a life. #ProtectOurChildren

Do you own a gun?

✅ Lock It Up.
✅ Store Ammo Separately.
April 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
camerongettel.bsky.social
1/ 🚨 ED care transitions are critical for older adults, but no standardized tools have been available to measure patient-reported outcomes. Here we share the development and validation of the PROM-OTED tool to address this gap.

Access in @aem-journal.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40155783/
March 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
ohdearz.bsky.social
OSU banned departments from considering race in admissions two years ago -- we aren't allowed to know applicants' races, and diversity (of any kind) was removed from all rubrics. So to come after us now shows how useless & futile it is to comply.
March 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Lauren Southerland
drsherrypagoto.bsky.social
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM