PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis The child protection team and orthopedics were consulted due to concern for possible healing femur fracture. Syphilis Complicating Pregnancy and Congenital Syphilis. Osteomyelitis D.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Lymphoma D.

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

Some examples of this would be for as a failing root canal, a presurgical consultation, to determine an odontogentic or non-odontogenic lesion, or if the source of the patient&amp;rsquo;s chief complaint is not obvious on the 2D radiograph. <em>J Endod.</em> </em> 2014;40(7):910-916.</span></p>

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Are there things that we can do to prevent the complication of aspiration, which we most fear, aspiration pneumonia? Nicole: Yes.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

AUGUST 8, 2024

Knowing the difference can help you seek the right treatment and avoid unnecessary complications. When to See a Doctor While mild UTIs sometimes resolve on their own, it’s essential to consult a healthcare provider if: Symptoms persist or worsen after a few days. Timely diagnosis and treatment are crucial to prevent complications.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Unlike urgent care, which is suited for non-life-threatening conditions, the ER is designed to provide immediate, high-level care for severe complications from a sore throat, such as difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, or signs of a serious infection. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay. Sudden flare-ups of chronic conditions can also necessitate immediate care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Matt: We have seen pilot level studies, interventions like that one to do clinical ethics consultation.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. I mean, how do you negotiate that with the oncologist who is the one who consulted you, by the way, Eric, who does that go to? They’re asking you for a consultation. This is a complicated case. After a very long 1 hour consult, you’re exhausted.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. Eric: Yeah. What are the patients that we remember?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. People who have serious medical illness and have psychiatric complications as a result, or people who have coexisting psychiatric illness and serious medical illness and that this issue of maid sort of brings things. Like 80 to 90% of patients we see have a psychiatric diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. When we think about palliative care delivered here, like individuals with chronic pain, non-serious illness chronic pain, non-life threatening illness, oftentimes if we get consulted on them, we don’t even see them, may just be discontinued in most palliative care places.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I wish they were just a diagnosis. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. They have a experience that you will never have had.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Alex 04:49 Amyloid. Sean 17:40 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? We see how hard it is. We see when they don’t understand.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Complications that you should be aware of include bacteremia, endocarditis, septic arthritis, or osteomyelitis. So how do you make the diagnosis? Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52:e18.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Philip Maxwell, Victoria, British Columbia A Seattle reader delivered a diagnosis on X: So I guess this article and the Dr. Interviewed are far left progressive. Patients, Health Advocates See More Risk ,” May 23), have pre-vaccine complications such as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children been forgotten?

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