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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. Where was it?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. So for example, tracheostomies frequently occur in patients who are quite ill, but it’s not the trach itself that tends to lead to the mortality, it’s their generalized illness.