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ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

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

JUNE 19, 2025

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.

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

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

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. So medication adjustments. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

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

MAY 2, 2022

Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. Race and the Utilization of Security Responses in a Hospital Setting.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Janet 00:26 Thank you so much.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. And where I’m going with this is even if … Or patient-centered medical home, patient-centered care, right?

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

The second is an idea that Michael and Balfour Mount were really, I think, instrumental in articulating, which is this idea that healing is possible through the course of serious illness. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. It’s 1974. What was it?

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

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. I’m excited.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe: Great to be here.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Few HHS Secretaries have actually been medical doctors; Dr. Price was the first M.D. Moreover, it could cost him support in the 2008 presidential primaries, where he eventually came in second place to John McCain. s views on cancer screening. to hold the position in 24 years.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

2008 Jul 15;71(3):170-6. Epub 2008 Jun 4. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000310774.01185.97.

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ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

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

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

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

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

GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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

Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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

Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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