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A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We don’t have to go into that, but I do want to highlight, you had a JAGS article that was published on pre-hospitalization dysphagia and feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? Eric: Great. Raele: Blind Melon. Eric: Blind Melon.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. But it seems very apropos to the topic. Soo 01:37 It’s a little obvious.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. I guess, I’d say, and I said this in the article, we saw more movement on the FACT-G subscales of social and emotional quality of life. David: Yeah.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.