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

GeriPal

So this was a primary palliative care study that we’re gonna be talking about. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

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

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Absolutely.

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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. Isn’t this just a difference?”

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And I was an internal medicine resident. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. I heard this loud click. Sometimes it is that simple.