PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

Family 101

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management. But it’s just a CXR right? link] References Shah SN, Bachur RG, Simel DL, Neuman MI. Does this child have pneumonia? 2017;318(5):462-471.

Asthma 52

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a year long, monthly Project ECHO ® educational series on OUD. Roles included physicians, pharmacists, nurses, MA’s, office managers, advance practice nurses, behavioral health staff, and office staff.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education 130

StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife.

ER 100

ER Family Families Patients 100

Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This free blood clot can be transported throughout the arteries until it becomes lodged in a narrowed artery away from its original location. A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there?

Transportation 52

Transportation Hypertension Complication Management 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Summary Transcript Summary. Janet: Thank you.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Families 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. They weren’t hurt, they didn’t need transport, and we were seeing the same people over and over again. Same thing with kind of medication management.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. Because I mean, California is different. They have an advance directive.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.

Consulting 59

Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. That’s a big question.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. One of our first podcasts, over 300 podcasts ago, was with Nate Goldstein, who studies heart failure management in older adults, and particularly older adults nearing the end of life. Was it sodium hf?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.”

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

billion this fiscal year from its tax on managed care plans and took in about $5.9 All states except Alaska have at least one provider tax on managed care plans, hospitals, nursing homes, emergency ground transportation, or other types of health care businesses. For instance, California has netted an estimated $8.8 By Bernard J.

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Provider Hospital Finance Insurance 52