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A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart. We will discuss CAC score in detail in the Part 2.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Eric: Yeah. Scott: That’s what it was. Eric: Okay.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

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. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. It’s a healthcare crisis, it’s lack of tenant protections, death of a spouse. To Susan’s point.