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

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

This was the average prognosis in 2015 – but no one has an expiration date stamped on them. I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. I have Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (IPAH), a rare lung disease that ultimately leads to heart failure and death.

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