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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor, VitalTalk co-founder. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jacky: Thank you.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

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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