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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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

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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? Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). This is the second of the four cases. Aspirated foreign body B. Lymphoma D.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital. Do you have a weak immune system (e.g.,

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Antibiotic treatments for infections require timely prescriptions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By prognosis?

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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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this?

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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. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? ” and the answer is no, that probably was more just about do you need anybody to support you kind of emotionally or during this hospital stay, just give information to.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. People are living with HIV into advanced ages. The average age at death is likely in the 60s. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Don, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. The intervention itself is very straightforward. Before the primary care visit.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And we have some great guests.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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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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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols. Aside from coughing forever, there’s some important complications you need to be aware of.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Other people say, oh, no, this is just normal cognitive aging. There is a tension.

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