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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills. Why do so many (most, all??)

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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. I remember there was an Archives article from, or Annals, I forget, it was probably called Archives back then, Resuscitating Advanced Directives. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. Being a palliative care physician, the one that came immediately to mind was Knocking on Heaven’s Door. When it was do not resuscitate, fewer people chose it.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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We’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Juliet Jacobsen, who’s a palliative care doctor. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. ” But I’m a palliative care doctor and so I tripped on this. Brad: I completely forgot about that. That’s great.

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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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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. Anyway, we resuscitated him as best we could, stayed in the ICU, and then ended up in a nursing home. We’ve resuscitated people. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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

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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. Now there’s looking at online behavior. Teva has this really nice paper. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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