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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

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Since 2016, webPOISONCONTROL has assisted almost 800,000 people worldwide with their poisoning exposures. I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. webPOISONCONTROL was developed and is maintained by a team of board-certified medical and clinical toxicologists.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And how did you do that?