GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. So I go between.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Health officials are urging the public to take preventive measures as hospitals nationwide grapple with a surge in influenza cases. Among the most vulnerable groups, the elderly, young children, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions are experiencing severe complications.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. I could walk down the hall and get information. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. And then once we have the surrogate, let’s really try to give them the information they need to make decisions. So address both of the problems.

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