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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

Peeking out of the small window in the resuscitation room, it seemed the world had been dipped in a bucket of hell. They were rushed into the resuscitation room where the trauma team pounced on them. Generally, working in the resuscitation room is nothing like you see portrayed on TV. I was working that day. the firestorm.

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