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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

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2024-066854. 2024-066855. Yes, and so thinking about these imaging modalities, I keep coming back to the fact that most of the time when we’re ordering one, it’s because we’re thinking about what’s next from a management standpoint for the patient. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066854.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” Because I read every national guideline around palliative care and each one says we should be identifying and managing psychological and psychiatric aspects of serious illness.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie: Thank you.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. We know what’s going to happen.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. Then just got the diagnosis. Alex 23:47 Yeah.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s not just about physical symptom management. English or spanish speakers.

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

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And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about. We were agnostic on the timing.