Wesley Ely

Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA

Dr. E. Wesley Ely is a professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with sub-speciality training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Ely's research has focussed on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill patients with ICU-acquired brain disease (manifested acutely as delirium and chronically as acquired dementia). He is the co-director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS Center), which has amassed thousands of patients into cohort studies and randomised trials answering vital questions about ICU acquired brain disease and other components of ICU survivorship. His team developed the primary tool CAM-ICU (translated into 30+ languages) which is used to measure delirium in ICU-based trials and clinically at the bedside in ICUs worldwide.

Dr. Ely has been continuously federally funded (NIA and/or VA) for over 15 years. He has over 400 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 published book chapters and editorials.

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Lectures by Wesley Ely

Prioritising Brain and Body Management in Non-Neuro ICU Patients

A review of the evidence

Critical Care Medicine / Patient Care

Cognitive, Functional and Emotional Impairment

A review

Sepsis / Post-Sepsis