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MARCH 30, 2025

A Call for Action The increasing number of older trauma patients presents a challenge that cannot be ignored. Quality indicators for a geriatric emergency care (GeriQ-ED)-an evidence-based delphi consensus approach to improve the care of geriatric patients in the emergency department. 2020;28(1):68-.

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Geriatrics Nursing Resuscitation Blog 47

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And this is the range of recommended chest compressions to record your pulmonary resuscitation or CPR. Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Cause what we see is that some of the worst outcomes we have are when someone gets resuscitated because no one was there to explain.

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Palliative care Palliate Resuscitation 2016 199

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. 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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Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 285

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But when the doctor explained the choices between, you can either have CPR or have a do not resuscitate order, or you can have CPR or allow a natural death. When it was do not resuscitate, fewer people chose it. And we’ve accrued over a hundred different clinicians and we analyzed their language when presenting treatment options.

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Ventilator Vital signs Palliative care Resuscitation 278

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. And I described a code that I led as a senior resident. Alex: Wait, what’s the linkage here? We’re giving some biologic information if they want it.

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Informed consent Article Palliative care Resuscitation 340

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. And then there’s this other time, and this gets to the geriatric patients, where you’re adapting to change and loss and then it’s a new normal that you’re trying to adapt to. And so, that’s what we learned from them. This is a blind spot for me.

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Books Blog Palliative care Palliate 320

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. Anyway, we resuscitated him as best we could, stayed in the ICU, and then ended up in a nursing home.

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Article Resuscitation Nursing home Document 246