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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. They were hospitalized but something comes up about mammography screening and it can be really quick. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs. And so then they saw their PCP.