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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. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Thats a lot of S s.

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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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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade – hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care. If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. Is it you, Ira?

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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. Although they began with a large focus on police brutality as a whole, they realized that the presence of police within the hospital had not been sufficiently examined.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

The hot sauces progressed from mild to extreme (and I mean extreme) heat. Can I just say…it works? Being asked a question with your mouth on fire, sweat streaming down your face, feeling the most awake and terrified you have ever been in your life, forces you to give an unadorned answer, straight from the heart. Lynn: Okay. Anne: GeriPal edition.

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