Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. To me, that’s the definition of miscommunication. Will you please answer the question for us? laughter] Eric: That was miscommunication on my part. I didn’t assign somebody to ask.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. I definitely don’t want to do that today. Definitely doesn’t correlate with need. Kate: So it was a little windy path.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.

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