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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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And this is the range of recommended chest compressions to record your pulmonary resuscitation or CPR. Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Eric 01:35 Okay.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. And I think that’s where we want to be.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? You’ve had three documented conversations to “clarify code status.” Alex: Wait, what’s the linkage here? Alex: Thank you.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

Why don’t people want to document serious illness conversations? I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. And then there’s this other time, and this gets to the geriatric patients, where you’re adapting to change and loss and then it’s a new normal that you’re trying to adapt to.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. There’s more to it that you should be documenting than DNR DNI, which seems like. Anyway, we resuscitated him as best we could, stayed in the ICU, and then ended up in a nursing home.

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