Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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End-of-life care Healthcare proxy Resuscitation Document 52

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. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 208

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. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock. Lauren: Yeah.

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Geriatrics Ventilator Events Palliative care 188

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. That’s not unique to POLST as an order.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 145