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.
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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Caregiver Support Services
JANUARY 26, 2025
Books, puzzles, or simple arts and crafts can provide mental stimulation to keep your clients mind active. The room should be well-ventilated and at a comfortable temperature, typically between 68 and 74 degrees Fahrenheit. Choose activities that align with their interests and energy level.
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.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Eric: You’ve done a lot, you’re a prolific author.
GeriPal
APRIL 28, 2022
And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. And then bringing it back to the patient, as you say, at the end.
Daily Nurse
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Convinced that the civil rights leader was a “communist” and a “flimflam artist who pimped the community,” she armed herself with a pearl-handled letter opener and attended the book signing. When she neared King, she aimed right for his heart and managed to drive her makeshift knife six centimeters into his chest.
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