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ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

Physician's Weekly

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

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Elevated BAR Signals Poor Prognosis in Patients With CKD Admitted to ICU

Physician's Weekly

The study investigated the association between BAR and 28-day mortality risk in 4,625 adult patients from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database, which included health records for patients in the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2008 and 2022. By tertile, mortality rates were 14.6%

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Margaret 22:45 So the eligibility was that they had to have a life threatening illness.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

As she embarked on her project, she realized that improving serious illness care would require improving serious illness communication. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. Carine talked about her expertise in empathically communicating with patients as a palliative care physician. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 4;384(9):791-793. J Natl Med Assoc.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. And, that’s to help people who have serious illness, that’s to help people who have diseases of aging at a younger age, people who are homeless, people who are incarcerated.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?