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How to Improve Your Venous Circulation with Compression Therapy

Vascular Physician

If you have arterial disease, please consult your physician before using compression therapy, as this may be contraindicated for some patients. Compression therapy during pregnancy should be used under the guidance of a healthcare professional. Proper fitting and care can usually help you avoid them.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. It gives us some idea if there’s something going awry in the swallow, but we can’t really plan treatment without imaging the swallow. Is there a role for that?

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. And as it speaks to this podcast, I found that radiation oncology also offered me the ability to treat patients with palliative intent treatment, both adults and children, and allows me to sort of treat every area of the body and focuses on anatomy.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Alex: Also, I’ll say that on in my clinical practice doing palliative care consults, on the last time I was on service, I resolved to ask each patient, who could answer, which is a subset of the patients who I see, if they were lonely. Among clinical patients, the study’s always adjusted for age and initial health status.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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