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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1

Pallimed

by Drew Rosielle ( @drosielle ) Several years ago I was giving a talk in front of a mostly palliative care audience and asked, " How often do you find yourself, in the care of your patients, saying to yourself something like 'Thank the stars this patient has a healthcare directive (HCD)'?" He founded Pallimed in 2005.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

In 2005, Gary Franklin, MD, MPH, Director of the Labor and Industry Program, who would later become PROP’s Vice President of State Regulatory Affairs, published an article alleging that “that tolerance or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity may be occurring in some workers who use opioids for chronic pain (9).”

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Palliative Care Nursing. Patient Perspective. Peter | Paramedic to Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner. I’m a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Aged Care. I have been an Emergency Nurse since 2005. Anton | Palliative Care Nurse. Michael | Palliative Care Nurse and ex army medic. Paramedics.

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Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken

Pallimed

To the best of my knowledge, the DOC2 EAT exists largely to better account for these ratios going from IV hydromorphone, considering that Reddy et al is undoubtedly the best/biggest real-patient study looking at this very relevant real-life clinical question. (It He founded Pallimed in 2005. For more Pallimed posts about opioids.

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