GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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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?

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Life & Death Matters

MAY 10, 2021

Much of the discussion about ethical issues has centered around the availability of ventilators, but little has been said about the need and the responsibility to provide palliative care, ways to integrate a palliative approach for those who are seriously ill, and how to best support those […].

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Hospice nursing supports patients with dementia.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. A lot of them ended up having functional limitations that made that if they came from home, they ended up going to a nursing facility or hospice. Welcome, Abby.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. Eric: Because those full treatment include hospice and comfort focused medications.

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jean, FNP Due to its busy nature, providers in the Emergency Room (ER) may not immediately identify patients for hospice care. Approaching patients or family members about hospice can also be challenging-especially if they have specific questions. What is hospice? Hospice is for patients who are at the end of life.

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Seasons Hospice

AUGUST 12, 2024

Home Hospice Works Home hospice care is an increasingly popular option for patients with terminal illnesses. Unlike hospital-based or institutional care, home hospice care is delivered in the comfort of a patient’s own home, allowing them to spend their final days surrounded by loved ones in a familiar environment.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I think one of the challenges, especially about liver, is it doesn’t have a dialysis, it doesn’t have an ecMo, it doesn’t have a ventilator. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on. Butrans is a lot of hospices don’t even have it on their formula. But it is a.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And then, “I call hospice giving up.” And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. Like, oh no, I said it.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over the past two years despite all the stressors faced there has been a sound heard increasingly throughout the corridors of the hospice. Photo by darin ashby on Unsplash.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Hospice Training Courses HCP Training courses designed by clinicians for clinicians, to help boost your team’s confidence in quality reporting, care delivery, and more.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As a hospice volunteer, I noticed that many patients held strong beliefs about miracles that were important to them when making decisions about their health care. He spent 30 days in the ICU and was on a ventilator three times while at MedStar Franklin Square where he almost died. What about you? Do you believe in miracles?

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions). Advance care planning.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions). Advance care planning.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions). Advance care planning.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. If you are receiving hospice care, your hospice team can help you create a living will if you desire. If so, for how long?

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Hope Hospice Provides end-of-life resources including POLSTs and a free, downloadable/fillable Advance Health Care Directive for the State of California.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Hope Hospice Provides end-of-life resources including POLSTs and a free, downloadable/fillable Advance Health Care Directive for the State of California.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. Hope Hospice. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: Advance care planning. Following is Part 1.5, Mistake #1.5:

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

This type of request is often made by those wishing to avoid life-prolonging treatments such as ventilation or artificial nutrition when there is no hope for recovery. appeared first on Seasons Hospice OK | End of Life Care | Tulsa, OK. The post How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

As the disease progresses, you may begin thinking more about Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and mechanical ventilation. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization website is one of many resources that can help you find information and state-specific forms, as well as your local state health and human services website.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 15, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. The post Top Family Caregiver Mistakes: Part 2; Not hiring in-home help appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Revisit Part 1.5:

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. We need more men in nursing!

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

We were already an admitting service for inpatient hospice patients, but that’s only a couple a week. Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. I was here consecutively 64 days, seeing people around the clock. At the same time, in order to offload the hospitalist service, palliative care became an admitting service.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Sydney 06:45 So I’ve been Developing and running palliative care and hospice programs at Hopkins for about 25 years. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Eric 06:38 Let me ask you this. Why was this study important to you? Like if somebody just drops.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. We sometimes take care of patients who are on home ventilators, so coming in for an office visit is not practically feasible. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done?

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