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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

As was to be the case throughout the disaster, communication was a real problem, and the only way we had any idea of the magnitude of what was unfolding, was from the paramedics and public that presented. Many of the public who presented with ‘minor’ injuries had just lost everything. All were absorbed into the charcoal faced crowd.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock. Lauren: Yeah.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. So the kind of technological bind we’re talking about that first became recognized in the sixties or so with ventilators, the kinds of technologies that we have to sustain different kinds of bodily function. Winston 33:31 2013.