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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

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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. And number two, maybe we should allow gentle occasional use of NSAIDs for chronic pain management if it means keeping somebody off of opioids.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

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Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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This long and sordid history of gabapentin and pregabalin is beautifully described in Seth Landefeld and Mike Steinman 2009 NEJM editorial. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. J Am Geriatr Soc. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

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. And number two, maybe we should allow gentle occasional use of NSAIDs for chronic pain management if it means keeping somebody off of opioids.

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

GeriPal

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So if you look at anything pre 2009, seven or nine in emergency medicine, anything that was published as an intervention was essentially a primary palliative care intervention. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

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

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How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you? How is that done?

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: To all of our listeners, thank you for your support of the podcast.

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