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Vascular Ultrasound: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Vascular Physician

Benefits of Vascular Ultrasound Undergoing a vascular ultrasound can provide a variety of benefits to individuals who have been diagnosed with a vascular condition or who are interested in using it as a screening tool. Some of these benefits include: Detecting blood clots in the deep veins of the body, such as the legs, (DVT).

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

GeriPal

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

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

GeriPal

So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. They know what their dog’s name are sometimes, which we don’t even have from a primary care level, and so that’s kind of a fascinating lens of opportunity.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming.

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