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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

GeriPal

I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? So that would be how I would describe what lucidity looks like. Andrew could talk about. Eric 03:57 Well, maybe we could just.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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

GeriPal

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.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

That we can’t predict when they’re gonna get sick or when they might go to the ED, when that big event may occur, but it’s also the uncertainty of who might be able to get transplanted. But I think for Liverpool, it’s not only the uncertainty, right. Brittany 15:07 Right. Like, it’s not an if, right?

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. We really tried to be very broad and were receiving mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours continuously. The granddaddy nudge is the one we talked about on our last podcast with you where you change the default option.