PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Diagnosis is made based on history and slit lamp findings. Acute Corneal Hydrops: Etiology, Risk Factors, and Management. doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2015-308251 McMonnies CW. This is the third of the four cases.

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Patient-Centered Diagnosis Management Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Joel: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away.

Families 106

Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And as things sometimes happen in surgery, patients can experience complications and one complication, particularly in someone who’s frail, who’s not buying the cabbage, maybe they’re buying the chard at the farmer’s market. Kara 10:12 Yep.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. So, they were finding that their miscarriage management was constrained and sometimes less safe, honestly, because of the restrictions. And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. I got it the second time. Lori: Absolutely.

Provider 19

Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19