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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Epub 2018 Apr 6.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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

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I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? But yeah, it’s complicated.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? You want to go back, I know this is pre-pandemic. Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Kara 10:43 Those are inpatient consults? Eric 10:44 No, all consults. Just if you look at all consults.

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