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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). He was the special prosecutor. Bring it to the emergency room because they’ll never find it in the chart. Eric: Yeah.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Tom: We should have had you sing Urgent Emergency. Eric: Okay.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. Joan: Thanks.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic.