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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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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. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. To me, that’s the definition of miscommunication. Will you please answer the question for us? laughter] Eric: That was miscommunication on my part. I didn’t assign somebody to ask.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Yeah.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. I definitely don’t want to do that today. Definitely doesn’t correlate with need. Kate: So it was a little windy path.