PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. The bleeding is usually painless.

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Diagnosis Complication Consulting Management 64

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. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? Eric: Because you need saliva to swallow, right? Nicole: Yes.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Individual 124

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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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

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. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies.

Hypertension 75

Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

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.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

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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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. We see how hard it is. Juliet: Sure.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98