Geriatrics Information Ventilator 
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: Okay.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article. And I think a lot of that leads to extreme moral distress.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.” ” Because I’m like, “Yeah, to what end?
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca. Who are they?
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge.
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