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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Having Smaller “Mini” Heart Attacks Reduces Your Risk For A Major Event A heart attack of any size indicates existing cardiovascular disease. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications. The post Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine.

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Men Over 50: 3 Common Health Problems To Ask Your PCP About

Center for Family Medicine

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications. While BPH is not cancerous, this condition can impact quality of life.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Eric: Yeah.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity. Katie: Awesome.

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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

GeriPal

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. Particularly patients, families. That their loved one is in there.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. Relationships are usually more complicated. I had no idea.

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