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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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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. We have patients who are acutely ill, pulmonary consequences can be really, really serious for a lot of our hospitalized patients.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? Eric 01:34 Oh, I love that. Dani 01:36 More to talk about there.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. 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.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. Ann: No, he was very excited. So we used a lot of rehab to death.

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

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It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. We’ve had you on twice before.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.