GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. Maybe even had come in with a complication.

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Vascular Physician

JANUARY 11, 2023

Depending on the procedure, an anesthesiologist will have a specifically tailored approach to how they administer and manage anesthesia from the beginning and till the end of the surgery. These eight weeks of smoking cessation will decrease the risk of experiencing many surgical complications.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If left untreated, serious AVFs can lead to other health complications including heart failure, internal bleeding, blood clots, or claudication. If you have been diagnosed with an AVF or are exhibiting signs of an AVF, be sure to work closely with your healthcare professional to manage the condition before it leads to other complications.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Vascular Institute of the Rockies 5-7 years of training after medical school specializing in learning about all aspects of peripheral vascular disease. Can also provide medical management, but if open surgery is the best option, they will refer the patient to a vascular surgeon. What is a Vascular Surgeon?

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Vascular Physician

MARCH 6, 2023

They are essentially hollow tubes with thin walls and special flaps inside them called valves. The most common complication from venous disease is a lower quality of life due to symptoms. Veins are a part of your circulatory system that are responsible for carrying blood all around your body and transporting it back to your heart.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Diamond plans to sue the broker who manages her company’s health plan and other benefits for negligence. The bills totaled more than $100,000. Lambert said she has seen the issue “many, many times.”

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a complex and progressive disease requiring highly specialized care, especially in emergency situations. The condition affects multiple organ systems—muscular, cardiac, and respiratory—leading to a myriad of clinical complications. Below are key considerations based on current best practices.

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AMMD

MARCH 10, 2025

1) If left unchecked, serious issues like malnutrition, digestive problems, and long-term health complications are the next step. Managing Your Gluten Intolerance Eliminating gluten 100% from your diet means 100%. In this case, the right supplements could help you manage the situation. The result? inflammation and damage. (1)

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PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

A special thanks to Dr. Cristina Tarango, director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center at Cincinnati Children’s and Lisa Littner, Project Manager at Cincinnati Children’s who helped me research and write this post. …and it’s called Hemlibra (Emicizumab) Why this med is important and why kids are on it?

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. Eric: But is that just something special about methadone and buprenorphine?

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. And that model just made sense.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. For Mesa residents dealing with these ongoing health challenges, regular visits to Mesa Family Physicians ensure that your condition remains well-controlled and complications are minimized.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

AUGUST 8, 2024

Knowing the difference can help you seek the right treatment and avoid unnecessary complications. Specialized Testing for STIs or IC: If an infection is not found, further tests may be necessary to diagnose underlying conditions like STIs or interstitial cystitis. Timely diagnosis and treatment are crucial to prevent complications.

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

Many chronic diseases—such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers—can be better managed or even prevented through routine checkups, lifestyle changes, and early detection strategies. These providers focus on the unique health needs of aging women, including bone density, menopause management, cancer screenings, and incontinence care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? Summary Transcript Summary.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes. What is in a clinic?

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

Ibogaine shows potential for promoting neuroplasticity and aiding recovery, though it carries cardiac risks that require careful management. The initiative aims to attract additional private investment and facilitate FDA approval. This summary was automatically generated using LLM.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Back in February, we asked you, our listeners, to tell us how you’ve managed when your prescriptions got really expensive. Like I’m having to go outside of that in order to get them the medications that are nothing special. I ended up learning about companies called pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs. Dan: Yeah, fair.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

No special preparation is needed beforehand unless your healthcare provider instructs you to fast for 9 to 12 hours. Schedule Your Cholesterol Screening Today Routine cholesterol testing allows early detection and better control of high cholesterol before complications arise. What Does the Screening Entail?

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn how to recognize and manage cases in the emergency department, ask the right questions to uncover inhalant use, and provide critical resources for prevention and support. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. References Perry H, Burns MM.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. And so I thought it was appropriate.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It used to be a much more complicated model. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? David: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

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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. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. No, no, no.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. ” But there seems to be something special when we move from something that we can just check box like, “I’ve done this,” like a lab order or imaging study.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. Relationships are usually more complicated. Alex 09:00 Not true. And we’re.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Is the sort of task to manage. This is a complicated case. I heard that. So I think it’s a bit of both acknowledging it and the emotion that may be in the room, but also just seeing the family. Eric 40:08 Great.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. It feels special to me. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me. What happened here?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. So it was more integrated.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Alex 00:05 To claim credit, p lease go to the C ME tab on GeriPal.org. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. 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.

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