PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” Glucose We all need it.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Children requiring psychiatric consultation in the pediatric emergency Berg JS, Payne AS, Wayra T, Morrison S, Patel SJ. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

FDA Law

MARCH 20, 2022

FDA has model recall communication templates available here that firms can utilize. Firms also need to maintain distribution records to facilitate identifying the direct accounts that received the recalled product by name, physical address where the product was delivered, and contact information.

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Electronics Manufacturing Provider IT 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Their job was done.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. How do we move from efficacy (works in highly controlled settings) from effectiveness (works in real world settings? What’s the role of implementation science? What is a pragmatic trial ? Transcript.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This isn’t to say we’ve “made it” – more to say that we’ve reached a new stage of maturation of the field – in which the evidence we are discussing is frequently high quality randomized trial level data. -@AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Recognizing Hypertensive Emergencies The end-organ dysfunction component of this diagnosis presents as particular symptoms, physical exam findings, or laboratory and imaging results. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies.

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Graphic Novels. Graphic Medicine. I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. Take it away, Emily.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. We discuss the following: What is Palliative Psychiatry (and how is it different from Palliative Care Psychiatry)? What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness?

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

FDA Law

JULY 9, 2024

geographic location, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and mental disabilities, pregnancy status, lactation status, and co-morbidity) may impact outcomes. FDA encourages sponsors to consult patients and healthcare providers to assist in developing such strategies. population demographics.

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Clinic Provider Individual IT 59

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Saw them play a couple times.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Since then there has been a lot of back and forth, with even a couple of podcasts from us, several JAMA viewpoints, and most recently a series of published replies from leaders in the field on why ACP is still valuable (see below for references). . Despite all of these publications, I’m still left at a loss of what to think about it all.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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