GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.”

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Abby: This is absolutely a conversation tool and it’s a conversation starter, but then it documents the ability to document that conversation over time and potentially connect dots between care teams when you have this in the electronic healthcare record. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

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. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: And how did you do that?

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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. ” Don: It was part of the palliative care fellowship, a study of linguistics and communication.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . And instead of only being focused on the mechanical ventilation parameters that day, we force them to focus on prognosis.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. 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.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. Jim: In Virginia, we actually convened a Joint Commission on Healthcare.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. We sometimes take care of patients who are on home ventilators, so coming in for an office visit is not practically feasible. ” Why don’t we say, “All of healthcare is dangerous.” Alex: Hope so. Alex: And that was during the pandemic.

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