Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. But they don’t always understand what that means.
Daily Nurse
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Convinced that the civil rights leader was a “communist” and a “flimflam artist who pimped the community,” she armed herself with a pearl-handled letter opener and attended the book signing. When she neared King, she aimed right for his heart and managed to drive her makeshift knife six centimeters into his chest.
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GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
He spent 30 days in the ICU and was on a ventilator three times while at MedStar Franklin Square where he almost died. Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.
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
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.
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.
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