GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. 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.” Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Eric: You’ve done a lot, you’re a prolific author.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
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GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Thanks for having us. Who are they?
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Their oxygenation, while important, whether or not we can take them off the ventilator, probably has nothing to do with the big picture, oh, and they’re dying of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Yes, you read some book or you try to steal a phrase from somebody else, and then you say that for the first time, it does feel awkward.
GeriPal
APRIL 28, 2022
And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. And then bringing it back to the patient, as you say, at the end.
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