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

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. Eric: Okay.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Eric: So probably a very uncommon circumstance where an outpatient provider who’s had this conversation, who’s known the individual for a very long time actually goes to the ICU, communicates with the family and potentially communicates with the ICU providers about who this person is, what’s important to them.

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

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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