Community Emergency Room Hospital Illness 
The Clinical Problem Solvers
MAY 14, 2020
We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. But, this requires an adequate understanding of the syndrome and having well-defined illness scripts.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .
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GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.
GeriPal
APRIL 13, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?
Physicians News Digest
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Health officials are urging the public to take preventive measures as hospitals nationwide grapple with a surge in influenza cases. The CDC estimates that there have been approximately 300,000 hospitalizations and 20,000 flu-related deaths this season. “This flu season is unprecedented in its intensity,” said Dr. .
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