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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Ruth: Sure.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Smith has no Meal Times, Minimal Comfort feeding for Patients with Advanced Dementia. Why did you write this paper?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. Eric 07:25 I guess, Chris, from your perspective.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Well, they say that LP should be performed when there are meningeal signs or symptoms or other clinical features that suggest possible meningitis or intracranial infection. In a study from Kim published in Pediatrics in 2010, they looked at 526 children with complex febrile seizures. So what does the AAP say? You can do this.

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