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.
Daily Nurse
MARCH 25, 2024
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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. Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.
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? 20 years later, Wendy Anderson did exactly the same study and found that residents at UCSF used exactly the same language. Alex: Thank you.
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. 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?
Minority Nurse
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
In the CFRN certification program, the emphasis on resuscitation and “special populations” were both increased due to greater volumes of high acuity patients transported by air and to adequately address essential knowledge regarding the special needs of obstetrical, neonatal/pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric populations.
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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