DECEMBER 2019    Volume 102, Number 10

ADVERTISING

Editors-in-Chief
William Binder, MD
Edward Feller, MD

Associate Editor
Kenneth S. Korr, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

Advertising Administrator
Sarah Stevens

Advertising Rate Sheet
and Insertion Order Form

For Authors
• Author Guidelines
• Copyright Transfer
• Financial Disclosure
• Letters to the Editor
• Images in Clinical Medicine

From THE EDITORS  
Thanks to RIMJ’s Guest Editors, Contributors of 2019
William Binder, MD
Edwrd Feller, MD
Kenneth S. Korr, MD
Mary Korr

COMMENTARY    
‘Good Initiative, Bad Judgment’
Patrick McGlone, BS, MD’21

WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE   
RIMJ Readers' Photos
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

UPDATES IN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Guest Editors
Gerardo P. Carino, MD, PhD
Andrew T. Levinson, MD, MPH
[Complete 33-page Themed Section]

Updates in Critical Care Medicine: Evidence-based Practice in 2020
Gerardo P. Carino, MD, PhD
Andrew T. Levinson, MD, MPH

Treatment of Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Current Evidence-Based Practices
Jisoo Lee, MD
Mitchell M. Levy, MD, MCCM, FCCP

Acute Renal Failure in Critically Ill Patients: Current Evidence-Based Practices
Katherine Cox, MD
Debasree Banerjee, MD, MS

Red Blood Cell Transfusions in the ICU
Channing Hui, DO
Grant Cagle, MD, MPH
Gerardo Carino, MD, PhD

Communication at the End-of-Life in the Intensive Care Unit:
A Review of Evidence-Based Best Practices
Sarah Rhoads, MD
Tim Amass, MD, ScM

Lung Ultrasound for Diagnosing Patients with Severe Dyspnea
and Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
Mohammad Arabiat, MD
Andrew E. Foderaro, MD
Andrew T. Levinson, MD, MPH

Extracorporeal Life Support in Adults with Acute Respiratory Failure:
Current Evidence-Based Practices
Adeel Abbasi, MD
Cynthia Devers
Neel R. Sodha, MD
Corey E. Ventetuolo, MD, MS

High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: Current Evidence-Based Practices
Christopher D. Theroux, MD, MS
Jason M. Aliotta, MD
Christopher J. Mullin, MD, MHS

PUBLIC HEALTH
Health by Numbers
How Many Parents are Reading with their Young Infants in Rhode Island?
Karine Monteiro, MPH
Hyun (Hanna) Kim, PhD
William Arias, MPH
Pamela High, MS, MD

Vital Statistics
Roseann Giorgianni, Deputy State Registrar

RIMS NEWS   [5-page section]
Are you reading RIMS Notes?

Working for You: RIMS Advocacy Activites
Eleventh Hour Educational Event

IN THE NEWS    [7-page section]
Rhode Island Hospital Researchers identify potential nanotechnology therapy
for chondrosarcoma

Brown researchers receive $6.8M in NIH grants, partners with RI,
to evaluate, expand opioid interventions

RI MomsPRN new statewide initiative, addresses maternal depression
and related behavioral health needs

Providence VAMC breaks ground for Research Service

Elizabeth Goldberg, MD, awarded $1.1M in NIH funding to study fall prevention

RI researchers, policymakers outline new framework for opioid use disorder treatment

Lifespan dedicates new Ambulatory Care Center on revitalized industrial site

PEOPLE/PLACES    [4-page section]

Appointments
Matt Quin appointed president of W&I

Peter Kim, MD, PhD joins pediatric surgery team at University Surgical Associates

Lindsay Tse, DO, joins Center for Surgical Weight Loss at CNE

RECOGNITION
South County Health has been recognized with
the 2019 Gold Level Health Impact Award by AHA

Women & Infants raises more than $500,000 at community event;
proceeds will support Birth Center

Newell E. Warde, PhD , honored with AMA Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award

Arun K. Singh, MD receives AHA Lifetime Achievement Award

Obituaries
Robert M. Dowben, MD
Harold Milton Horwitz, MD

HERITAGE   
Dr. H.P. Lovewell: Traversing the woods, bogs and backwaters in search of Materia Medica
Mary Korr

COVERYS

HUB INTERNATIONAL

WEBSTER BANK

FAVORITE STAFFING

COVERYS

NORCAL

AETNA