May is National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month, a time to celebrate our ICU teams and honor our patients. In this episode of the podcast, we will focus on the forgotten patient – the loved ones and families of critically ill patients. We will explore the topic through the lens of a cardiac arrest co-survivor. Our guest is Kristin Flanary, a cognitive neuroscientist and social psychologist. Kristin is a co-survivor of cancer(twice) and a co-survivor of sudden cardiac arrest. She is also known for her social media alter ego – Lady Glaucomflecken. In 2022 Kristin co-founded Glaucomflecken LLC, where she works to advocate for caregivers and co-survivors of medical trauma and critical illness, community CPR and AED use, and sudden cardiac arrest survivorship. She has written about her experience as a co-survivor in medical journals and has received an EMS Cardiac Arrest Save Challenge Coin, the Citizen CPR Foundation’s '40 Under 40' award, and the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Champion award.

Additional Resources:

The Quiet Place. K. Flanary. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2021: https://www.onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(21)00403-6/fulltext

Roger. K Flanary. CHEST. 2022: https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(22)04029-6/fulltext

Life after Cardiac Arrest: The importance of engaging with the “forgotten patient.” K Haywood & K Dainty. Resuscitation, 2018: https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(18)30195-3/pdf

Link to the Glaucomflecken’s website: https://glaucomflecken.com/

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

In Shock. By Rana Awdish: https://bit.ly/441b0Cx

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Releasedatum: 11-5-2023 09:00:20