Remove Emergency Room Remove Events Remove Management Remove Physicals
article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. That we can’t predict when they’re gonna get sick or when they might go to the ED, when that big event may occur, but it’s also the uncertainty of who might be able to get transplanted.

article thumbnail

Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

article thumbnail

Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. And the blue stripey bear says to the red stripey bear, “I have a fracture. Alexis: Yeah.

IT 128