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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Same thing with kind of medication management. Is there any feedback in any of these to the PCP? In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening. Get them back in the PCP office. When’s the last time you saw your PCP? Do you even have a PCP?”

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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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?

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. So the patient gets gabapentin prescribed from their surgeon, they see their PCP, they have a list of medications, and they all get renewed, get represcribed. J Am Geriatr Soc. Tasce: Lots of reasons.