Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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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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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

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. So these are generally seen as treatments that are futile.

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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.” This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Amber: I do.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. I can correspondingly count on one hand the number of patients I’ve cared for who said I want to be on mechanical ventilation at all costs, even if it means I will never come off. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me.

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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). What the palliative care team needs to know. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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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). What the palliative care team needs to know. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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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). What the palliative care team needs to know. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. I found out that the stairwell wasn’t just a heart healthy method for getting from floor to floor; it was where nurses and residents went to cry.

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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. Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? But how long can you stay in the program, and is it effective if you do? How Long Can You Be In Palliative Care?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Welcome back, Bob. Bob: Thank you. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Thanks for having us. Welcome back, Sean.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As many doors and windows have been left open to allow greater ventilation to allow viruses and other infective materials to be circulated out of the building but the sound of the wind is not the subject of this post. It can change your facial expression in an instant. It can lead to a sudden and rapid expulsion of air from your body.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This ensures that the family and the care team honor the patient’s wishes like determining do not resuscitate (DNR) status, using ventilator support, and providing enteral feedings. Documenting care preferences in advance — Planning care early in the disease process is a meaningful way to identify, document, and communicate a patient’s goals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’re able to provide IV treatments, and we’re even able to do home extubations with ventilator support. I think that those hospital modalities at VITAS were able to bring high-flow oxygen and other breathing modalities into the home. HSPN: Of course, most hospices these days provide more than just hospice.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. I found out that the stairwell wasn’t just a heart healthy method for getting from floor to floor; it was where nurses and residents went to cry.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. So the disconnect there potentially with healthcare providers is when we talk about end of life and end-of-life planning, we’re thinking about the before death stuff. Eric: And to all of our listeners, thank you for your support.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. ALS is usually characterized by pain, muscle twitching or spasms, stiff muscles, or excessive drooling (caused by weak chin muscles), and later difficulty talking, swallowing, and breathing.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Interested in your thoughts on revising this framework at a national level, the NIH framework versus clinicians making individual choices about who to allocate this, a scarce treatment to whether it’s Paxlovid or an ICU bed or a ventilator or a dialysis compounds. Emily: Yeah.

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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. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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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. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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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. Before you begin writing the advance directive, you can talk to your healthcare providers about the treatments you will most likely be given. Some states ask for both things.

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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. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family. Hope Hospice.

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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. Mental Health Nursing. Miscellaneous. News & Spotlights. Nurse Educators, Facilitators & Tutors.

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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. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

We invited Jim back with us along with Darrell Owens , DNP, MSN, who is the head of palliative care for the University of Washington’s Northwest campus. . What I loved about this March 2020 podcast was that Darrell pushed us to think differently: “Expect that it’s not business as usual. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Pretty amazing.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

So legally dead in California, family moved to New Jersey, where she was kind of alive despite having a death certificate for another four years, and then died four years later after being actually home on a ventilator for a while, too, we talked more about that with the Bob Truog podcast. They don’t need a heart. Winston 14:17 Right.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you. Carly, welcome to GeriPal.

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