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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

This heightened temperature can precipitate complications affecting vital organs like the brain and heart. Rest : Allow the body to recuperate by resting and avoiding strenuous physical activity until symptoms subside. Loose Clothing : Wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing to facilitate better air circulation and heat dissipation.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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

GeriPal

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. Emergency rooms. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? We see how hard it is.

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