PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The condition affects multiple organ systems—muscular, cardiac, and respiratory—leading to a myriad of clinical complications. Once patients become non-ambulatory, they often develop secondary complications like lymphedema, which further complicates their care. 2018 Oct;142(Suppl 2):S72-S81. 2018-0333I.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma 52

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California. Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. They just kept at it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? What’s the evidence behind it?

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