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Paul Edmund Wischmeyer

Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

Selected Presentations & Appearances


We Must Improve Post-ICU Rehabilitation! Strategies for Rehabilitation from Critical Care · July 2021 International Meeting or Conference International Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine,

Lecture on new nutrition, exercise, and anabolic agent interventions to improve recovery from critical illness and COVID-19 ICU stays in the intensive care unit. Targeted at recovery from Post ICU Syndrome (PICS) and ICU-acquired weakness. Lecture from the International Society for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Paul Wischmeyer MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Director of TPN/Nutrition Team.

Nutrition Care in the Obese ICU and COVID-19 Patient · July 2021 International Meeting or Conference International Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium (Online)

Lecture on feeding the critically ill Obese and COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit from the International Society for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Paul Wischmeyer MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Director of TPN/Nutrition Team, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Nutrition and Metabolic Care in COVID-19 with Dr Paul Wischmeyer · July 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Society of Critical Care Medicine SE Chapter,

Presented at Southeast Chapter- Society of Critical Care Medicine.

One Easy Step To Protect Against COVID-19: Probiotic Protection Against COVID-19-PROTECT-EHC Trial · 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Society of Critical Care Medicine,

Are you at risk of getting COVID-19?: One Easy Step to Protect Yourself From COVID-19
Critical care clinicians, the elderly, and many others are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. Society of Critical Care Member Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, has a pearl of advice: take probiotics and vitamin D and encourage your loved ones and patients to do the same.

Duke Health researchers, led by Dr. Wischmeyer, are conducting a study to see if a regimen of over-the-counter probiotics – specifically the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) – may protect people from becoming infected with COVID-19 or developing severe symptoms.

“This is something safe and simple that providers can do at home. On a very practical level, the role of probiotics to prevent infection or infection progression is real. It’s something people should consider doing,” he said.

The study, which is currently enrolling participants, is based on previously published research in Shock, Nature, and Cochrane Reviews, showing probiotics have the potential to safely and effectively reduce infections, especially respiratory tract infections, by up to 50%.

The 60-day study is open to anyone in the United States who has one or more COVID-19-positive housemates. Study sign-up and procedures are online with no hospital or doctor visits necessary, and participants receive compensation upon completion of the trial.

Learn more about the study and how to enroll at: sites.duke.edu/protectehc/

Surgical and Perioperative Nutrition Care and Optimization: We Must Do Better! · December 2020 International Meeting or Conference Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) Congress,

No patient should ever have major elective surgery without a nutrition evaluation and nutrition optimization!

Lecture on key role nutrition plays in improving preparation and outcomes from surgery. Key advice on diagnosing malnutrition before surgery and research-based nutrition interventions to improve outcomes from surgery.

Key data on role of protein intake, ERAS pathways, parenteral nutrition, and other key nutrition data for patients and for surgical teams to improve patient outcomes. Also discusses key role of a registered dietitian in all surgical care.

Presented at 2020 EBPOM (Evidenced-Based Perioperative Medicine)
London Meeting

Essential knowledge for perioperative caregivers including surgeons, anesthesiologists, RD's, ERAS coordinators, preoperative clinic staff, and patients everywhere.

What Patients Need Doctors to Know” -Keeping the CARE in “HealthCARE - Samuel Thompson Rowling Lecture · May 2019 International Meeting or Conference Royal College of Anesthesia, London, England
Early Mobility in the ICU- A Multidisciplinary Journey · 2019 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium

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Early mobility...walking patients on ventilators and ECMO is the new standard of care in optimizing ICU patient outcomes. Achieving early mobility requires a multidisciplinary team of nurses, respiratory therapists, physicians and the essential physical therapist. In their role coordinating and supervising patient care, intensivists can put into place all the pieces of early mobility therapy and work together with "mobility therapists" and the whole medical team to optimize your patient or family members outcome. Please feel free to contact me at: paul.wischmeyer @duke.edu with questions. And- please follow me on twitter- @Paul_Wischmeyer and Instagram - paul_wischmeyerMD for more information.
View full video and get more information about early mobility in the iCU here: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en...
Thanks to Medtronics for making these educational videos possible.
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Are You Ready for Surgery?: The Three Key Surgical Malnutrition Questions You Must Ask · July 2018 Interview Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (ANHI),

Dr Paul Wischmeyer on Malnutrition: The 3 Questions I Ask Before Surgery

“Malnutrition is truly an epidemic. We know if we address malnutrition before surgery or in cancer we can change the very outcomes that matter most not just to our physicians, but the outcomes that matter to patients—the things that keep them in the hospital, the things that take their lives away. So, the key questions I wish we could teach all our healthcare providers to ask their patients are simple ones.”

Thanks to ANHI and Abbott for making this key video

What Nutrition Means to Me: Dr Paul Wischmeyer - Hospital Malnutrition and Nutriiton Delivery · March 11, 2018 Interview ANHI ,

Surprising Facts about the Epidemic of Hospital #Malnutrition - Learn more about this unrecognized epidemic in this interview as I discuss my passion for clinical nutrition and addressing patient malnutrition.

Interview on my Experience as ICU Patient and Physician and Essential Role of Early Mobility In ICU- Motion Means Life! · March 2018 Interview

My New Video on my Experience as ICU Patient and Physician and Essential Role of Early Mobility In ICU- Motion Means Life! #SurvivorsNotVictims

Power of Protein in Recovery from ICU and Illness: Paul Wischmeyer M.D. · 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium

Paul Wischmeyer M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University discusses key role of protein delivery and nutrition in improving clinical outcomes and optimizing quality of life following critical illness and surgery. Provides summary of recent evidence-base and published literature regarding optimal ICU nutrition delivery and protein delivery. Discusses muscle recovery and muscle loss in ICU.

Surviving the ICU-The Patient Experience: What Patients Need Their Doctors to Know · 2016 Invited Talk

Paul Wischmeyer, M.D., E.D.I.C., Department of Anesthesiology and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, shares his personal experience as an ICU patient and what patients wish their providers, doctors, and nurses knew. Asks the question- "are we creating survivors...or are we creating victims" in the ICU and Dr. Wischmeyer's personal experience on how to optimally recover from the ICU and prepare for surgery. Includes details on optimizing nutrition and exercise to recover from injury and illness.

Service to the Profession


Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2007 - 2010 Editorial Activities American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition ,