GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator. Should we keep them on the ventilator? Their advanced directive.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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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. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock. Lauren: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. That’s not unique to POLST as an order.

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