GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Analyzing data from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV), the study included 7,107 adult sepsis survivors, of which 23.6% Visit the AJCC website for more details and the full article. were readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. It’s been a while since we’ve done a Covid/bioethics podcast (see prior ethics podcasts here , here , here , and here ). Eric: Yeah. Emily: Yeah.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. Let me see. Our telehealth visits.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Who are they?

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Miscommunication of this information could lead to unwanted interventions, and Alice could end up on breathing support in the emergency department, something she clearly does not want.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 4, 2022

A must-read article for all budding ICU, NICU and paediatric nurses. Also called bronchopulmonary dysplasia, it can often be caused by needing prolonged oxygen therapy, pulmonary damage during mechanical ventilation, infections, or simply underdeveloped lungs due to prematurity. This ventilator is essentially a drum.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 4, 2022

Check out our other flight nursing articles below! Flight Nursing Articles. The brief covers any aircraft specific information, making sure everyone is current to fly and fulfil their role, any fatigue management concerns, and weather implications. Make sure to check out their website ! Write for us.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 16, 2022

In this instance, the normal care would be to use a bag valve mask and ventilate or breathe for the patient, however in a CICO event, you are unable to ventilate and hence unable to oxygenate. This involves writing down aspects of medications they aren’t familiar with during their shift, to help solidify the information.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

At that time, I formed a relationship with the center director and about 18 months later, she helped me form a plan to become a Registered Nurse and work my way into my position at NCPC as a Specialist in Poison Information (SPI). I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. It was information about our ACP facilitator. We’re not collecting any of this information directly from patients.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

So legally dead in California, family moved to New Jersey, where she was kind of alive despite having a death certificate for another four years, and then died four years later after being actually home on a ventilator for a while, too, we talked more about that with the Bob Truog podcast. They don’t need a heart. Winston 14:17 Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. We really tried to be very broad and were receiving mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours continuously.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. Pretty tough.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed?

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