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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Ariel, you want to take that question? Ariel: Sure. ” Ariel: Exactly. Ariel: Yes.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

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In the case presented, the patients blood pressure was significantly elevated, and she exhibited symptoms indicative of end-organ involvement, including altered mental status, headache, and nausea. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. Of these interventions in those individuals.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall. Try to really understand what’s happening. They’re side to side.