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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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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. On the admission, are you telling them, “Think about withdrawal and life-sustaining treatments?”

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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So when I was in my last year of pulmonary critical care fellowship, we had two week elective. Kate: And I kept saying, I want to do end of life care research with Scott Halpern and that’s what I did. Whether it’s supportive care or a social work led intervention, an ACP led intervention, whatever it may be.