PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. However for preterm newbown with more severe illness, systemic antibiotics along with intravenous immunoglobulins may be necessary. This is the first of the four cases. Lancet (London, England), 351(9116), 1614–1619.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Illness Patients 59

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). So you’re right.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Because I don’t come from a clinical background, so I have a whole different set of language in the way I approach something than someone with a medical background.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117