GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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? Alex: A feeding tube. 20 years later, Wendy Anderson did exactly the same study and found that residents at UCSF used exactly the same language.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If you look at the recordings of discussions they have with their doctors and even sort of the intonation when they talked about resuscitation, maybe that gives you information you could use to predict. But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data.

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