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The Value of Hospice-Emergency Department Collaboration

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Due to the ways EDs function — with the motto “triage, resuscitate, stabilize and transfer” — staff often wait until the patient is actively dying to contact hospice or palliative care, according to Malloy. They are also not equipped to manage the increasing number of people that come in during their final phase of life.”

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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

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Some call these cases “wrongful life lawsuits” when they occur in the courts, though “wrongful resuscitation” may be the more accurate term. . This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. . While in the past, lawsuits like these rarely resulted in hefty judgements, that appears to be changing.

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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

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Those were a group of outcomes that we looked at that included mechanical ventilation, hospital admissions within the last 30 days of life, intensive care unit admissions, receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chemotherapy within the last two weeks of life. The hospice indicator is stratified.

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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

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The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. I applied for that position and ended up doing the training and getting into palliative care.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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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. Summary Transcript Summary Amber Barnato is an expert in simulation studies. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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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. Bernie: So let me flip it around.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

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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? Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin.