Michalla Braford, DO

Department of Psychiatry, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, Virginia

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Michalla Braford, DO, is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at LewisGale Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. Braford has published on topics including patient care in critical and intensive care settings, approaches to diagnosing and treating neurological symptoms such as dizziness and dyspnea, and the screening and management of adverse childhood experiences. The work spans clinical areas of child and adolescent psychiatry, neurology, posttraumatic stress disorder, primary care, and psychiatry. Braford has collaborated frequently with authors such as Theodore A. Stern and Dona A. Kiriella.

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Rounds in the General Hospital

The Meaning of Monitoring to Patients and their Families in Critical Care Units

July 7, 2026

Patients and family members in ICUs frequently focus on the numeric displays of monitoring devices to feel that they are in control, rather than adrift in a helpless situation.

Joseph D. Dragonetti, Katerina V. Mastronardi, Samah Ibrahim, et al

Rounds in the General Hospital

Strategies for Managing Dyspnea

April 2, 2026

Pharmacologic approaches and behavioral and psychological interventions such as mindfulness, relaxation, and CBT can mitigate dyspnea and associated anxiety.

Joseph D. Dragonetti, Kamalika Roy, Maureen K. Cassady, et al

Rounds in the General Hospital

Diagnosing and Treating Dizziness

September 18, 2025

Psychiatric treatment of dizziness includes behavioral therapy to decrease arousal to the identified stimulus and pharmacologic interventions to decrease acute anxiety and prevent onset of downstream anxiety.

James K. Rustad, Michalla Braford, Elyse Nguyen, et al

Rounds in the General Hospital

Facing Intensive Care: A Guide for PCPs

June 17, 2025

Critically ill patients develop complex problems that involve affective, behavioral, cognitive, and motor manifestations, and failure to attend to these signs and symptoms can jeopardize the safety of both...

Sofia E. Matta, Ewa D. Bieber, Melissa Bui, et al

Rounds in the General Hospital

Sequelae of Adverse Childhood Experiences

May 6, 2025

Long-term complications of ACEs involve psychiatric and medical conditions, such as mood and substance use disorders, chronic heart and lung diseases, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and PTSD.

Sofia E. Matta, Joseph L. Bonvie, Olga Terechin, et al

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Michalla Braford, DO

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