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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. After listening to this episode you will be able to: Describe the findings on history and physical examination that differentiate organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status. Psychiatric emergencies.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Conspicuously missing is any rebuttal to one other issue raised in the June 22, 2020 HHS memo : that laboratories based out of state universities or public health departments are not “persons” as defined in key premarket review and enforcement provisions of the FD&C Act.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 4: You Can’t Get Fooled Again

PEMBlog

Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, 2006 Jul 24 [Updated 2017 May 25]. His Mother noted that this morning he was difficult to arouse, unwilling to wake up, and his abdomen was more distended than usual. There is no recent history of vomiting, diarrhea, cough, cold, congestion, fevers, trauma, or any known ingestion.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Alex: I’m excited about this podcast.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. And the MIND at Home at Hopkins.