GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. ” Or for a social worker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” But the priority for these individuals, a lot of focus, and I totally get it, is on those services and the celebration of life afterwards. It was great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?

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