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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512. And we would screen it and then we would filter that down to sort of a select number of EHR passages that we thought were of high likelihood to have a goals of care discussion. Randy always got mad at me when I said 2,000.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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