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Open Neuroscience Initiative, Austin Lim

College of Science and Health Full Text Publications

The Open Neuroscience Initiative is a free-to-use textbook

This project began as a means to overcoming the financial burden that face undergraduate neuroscience students when buying textbooks. By compiling and writing a completely free-to-access textbook that covers the foundations of a typical college introduction to neuroscience course, students would have one less obstacle to overcome in their educational career, allowing them to focus their valuable time and attention on learning rather than finances. To make this project a reality, I began with a humble tweet in May 2019 that managed to gain a tiny bit of traction among the neuroscience …

Faculty Publications 2010

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 844 publications.

Faculty Publications 2004

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 1027 publications.

Faculty Publications 2013

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 806 publications.

Automated Alerts To Improve Timely Evaluation And Treatment Of Valvular Heart Disease: The Alert Trial., Firas Zahr, Firas Zahr, Kevin Stiver

Medical Education Articles

BACKGROUND: Severe aortic stenosis (AS) and mitral regurgitation (MR) are frequently undertreated and characterized by persistent sex, racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities despite effective valve therapies. Whether automated electronic clinician notification (ECN) alerts improve the evaluation and treatment of AS and MR across health systems is unknown.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether ECN alerts improve guideline-directed evaluation and treatment of significant AS and MR across multiple health systems.

METHODS: ALERT is a multisystem, cluster-randomized clinical trial including clinicians ordering echocardiograms across 5 U.S. health systems encompassing 35 hospitals between August 2024 and September …

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - 2012- 138th Commencement

Graduation Programs

The program for the 138th Commencement of LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans held May 17, 2012.

Surviving Sepsis 2026: Key Updates, Katherine Ghattas, Amanda Rawa

Transformative Medicine

The 2026 update to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines introduces several important changes in the management of sepsis and septic shock, with a greater focus on tailoring treatment to individual patients. Notable updates include lower blood pressure targets for older adults with septic shock, continued support for early fluid resuscitation, the selective use of rapid diagnostic testing to guide antibiotic therapy, and increased flexibility in vasopressor selection for patients with cardiac dysfunction. These recommendations are based on emerging evidence aimed at improving patient outcomes while reducing unnecessary interventions and treatment-related complications. Overall, the updated guidelines reinforce a more personalized approach …

Faculty Publications 2003

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 869 publications.

Debunking Medical Myths: Is Starving Yourself An Effective Way To Lose Weight?, Mark Gregory, Adrienne-Denise Bilbao, Lana Zalt, Rachel Puentes, Anuj Kavi, Alexander Buendia

Patient Education Projects

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In-Person And Virtual Adaptation Of An Interprofessional Palliative Care Communications Skills Training Course For Pediatric Oncology Clinicians, Beatriz Rozo, Laura Salvador, Clark Andersen, Alakh Rajan, Robert Arnold, Julie Bradley, Allie Carter, Lauren Draper, Timothy Garrington, Jonathan Gill, Douglas Harrison, Masanori Hayashi, Amy Heaton, Cynthia Holladay, Alex Lion, Daniel Runco, Kathryn Sutton, Verna Ferguson, Karen Moody, Shermini Saini

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Introduction

Empathic communication is crucial for clinicians when discussing palliative and end-of-life (PC/EOL) care with parents of children with cancer. Unfortunately, many parents report inadequate communication at these distressing times. This study evaluates the communication skills training (CST) clinicians received to deliver a PC/EOL communication intervention as part of a multi-site randomized-controlled trial (RCT). Training was provided using an in-person format and then adapted to a virtual platform to accommodate remote learners.

Methods

Clinicians were trained in dyads (one physician and one nurse [RN] or advanced practice provider [APP]) over 3 days (in-person or virtually). Four pediatric oncology cases were …