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

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And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. In fact, the Right to Try act signed into law in 2018, allows patients with life threatening illness to access investigational drugs. Adam 07:05 Absolutely.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot.