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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

Well dive into the clinical presentations, including acute and chronic symptoms, the dangers of sudden sniffing death, and the specific risks associated with nitrites, hydrocarbons, and nitrous oxide. It presents as erythema and inflammation around the mouth and nose. So, what are inhalants?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. William: Not the future, but the present.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. He had this disseminated head and neck cancer and he had tried to get care before and due to his mental illness, he couldn’t follow up for cancer care. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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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 physical… Physical 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? Get the hospice referral. We see how hard it is. We wonder if they were told.

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