PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). 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. Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. Lymphoma D.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma 52

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. If yes, was it more, less, or the right amount of pain management? People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

Families 106

Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. To diagnose, to come up with a formulation, to be able to really get hold of the cause of this individual suffering. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. I don’t know how our patients manage that.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106