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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. So I was really excited to bring in a couple of co-editors who were young and hip, and at the cutting edge of palliative care now, along with my collaborators: the social workers, the psychiatrist, a chaplain to really make this book relevant for now. Eric: And then-.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. Okay, another sign to look for is a change in their vital signs. As a person approaches death, and we're talking active dying now, their vital signs will get a little goofy.