Karla Krewulak
I am a senior research associate working with Dr. Kirsten Fiest in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary. I am also an executive member of the Canadian Critical Care Research Coordinator Group. In my current role, I coordinate Dr. Fiest's research programs on: 1) transitions in care, 2) family presence policies, and 3) ICU family member involvement with delirium prevention, detection, and management. My areas of expertise include patient and family-oriented research, ICU delirium research, qualitative data collection & analysis, and systematic/scoping reviews.
Recent work
Krewulak KD, Jaworska N, Lee L, Louis JS, Dmitrieva O, Leia MP, Doig C, Niven DJ, Parhar KKS, Rochwerg B, West A, Stelfox HT, Leigh JP, Fiest KM. Impact of restricted family presence during the COVID-19 pandemic on critically ill patients, families, and critical care clinicians: a qualitative systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Aug 15;24(1):936. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11398-x. PMID: 39148067; PMCID: PMC11328402.
Krewulak KD, Jaworska N, Spence KL, Mizen SJ, Kupsch S, Stelfox HT, Parsons Leigh J, Fiest KM. Impact of Restricted Visitation Policies during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Communication between Critically Ill Patients, Families, and Clinicians: A Qualitative Interview Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jul;19(7):1169-1176. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202107-877OC. PMID: 34914537; PMCID: PMC9278629.
Krewulak KD, Sheikh F, Heirali A, Marshall JC, Burns KEA, Kupsch S, Maratta C, Murthy S, O'Hearn K, Russell K, Mehta S, Fiest K. Core socioDemographic data variables in ICU Trials (CoDe-IT): a protocol for generating core data variables using a Delphi consensus process. BMJ Open. 2024 Jul 23;14(7):e082912. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082912. PMID: 39043595; PMCID: PMC11268068.
Krewulak KD, Knight G, Irwin A, Morrissey J, Stelfox HT, Bagshaw SM, Zuege D, Roze des Ordons A, Fiest K, Parhar KKS. Acceptability of the Venting Wisely pathway for use in critically ill adults with hypoxaemic respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): a qualitative study protocol. BMJ Open. 2024 May 28;14(5):e075086. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075086. PMID: 38806421; PMCID: PMC11138268.
Krewulak KD, Hiploylee C, Ely EW, Stelfox HT, Inouye SK, Fiest KM. Adaptation and Validation of a Chart-Based Delirium Detection Tool for the ICU (CHART-DEL-ICU). J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Apr;69(4):1027-1034. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16987. Epub 2020 Dec 21. PMID: 33348428; PMCID: PMC8049975.
Krewulak KD, Rosgen BK, Ely EW, Stelfox HT, Fiest KM. The CAM-ICU-7 and ICDSC as measures of delirium severity in critically ill adult patients. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 16;15(11):e0242378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242378. PMID: 33196655; PMCID: PMC7668609.