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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. 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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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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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. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. What is sludge? I highly encourage you.