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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. Winston 33:31 2013.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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If you are concerned that your silence can be a form of complicity and bad behavior, too, we have a certain amount of expertise. For hospitalization, for death, for all sorts of adverse events, I think are a reason for concern. There is a tension. Although I might push a little harder to say that the risks of frailty with.

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