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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” And that’s how we connected. Justin: That’s probably the million dollar question.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. That put me in the emergency room. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. Eloise 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are. There’s.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. We can make this better.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right?

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts.