Document Feeding Presentation Ventilator 
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. And I think that’s where we want to be. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.
Seasons Hospice
OCTOBER 26, 2022
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. 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.”
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. So just to make that more concrete, Scott and I did a study a couple of years ago as well looking just at OHSU patients who presented to the emergency department with POLST. But yeah, full treatment.
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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah. Lauren: Shock.
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