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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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Alice Kuo and Ilene Claudius Podcast EIIC: Safe Control of the Agitated Patient Webinar Series with Dr. Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. Pediatrics. 2020 Jun;145(6):e20191536.

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Exploring the Use of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation

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The most common things you might see are bradycardia and hypotension, but these are usually mild and easy to manage. Dexmedetomidine: a review of clinical applications. 2007 Mar;8(2):115-31. At the doses we’re talking about for minimal sedation (1-2 mcg/kg intranasally), side effects are pretty rare. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

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This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. And they really have been shown in several clinical trials to have reductions in vertebral fractures, non-vertebral fractures, and hip fractures. See screenshot below.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. Alex: And, it means pain management. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Eric: All right.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD .

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

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I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. Jane 23:25 Which is, you know, I have had a few different kinds of leadership roles, and one was, as clinical director for our clinical service at Dana Farber and Brigham and women’s, overseeing the clinical operations for our whole fairly large group.

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