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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.

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

GeriPal

You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Eric: So let me ask you this, Rale, because I feel like, it could be wrong, but the most common time where we start diagnosing dysphagia is during a hospital stay. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint?

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. We, I’m going to say, pit diagnoses against each other. But it was.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. Look, I’m in a line talking about grownups here. It’s good.

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

GeriPal

Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Those two things together, no increase in mortality but increase in hospice utilization, it doesn’t prove that palliative care is goal-concordant, but it’s certainly suggestive. Eric: Yeah. Scott: That’s what it was. Eric: Okay.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Janet: It was this young man. He was in his mid twenties.

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