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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

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.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

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I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. Poison center nurses usually have at least two years of experience working in an ICU or an Emergency Department, but nurses in other specialties such as pediatric, geriatric, or transplant nursing can successfully make the transition into toxicology.

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Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent

GeriPal

Interested in your thoughts on revising this framework at a national level, the NIH framework versus clinicians making individual choices about who to allocate this, a scarce treatment to whether it’s Paxlovid or an ICU bed or a ventilator or a dialysis compounds. Emily: Yeah.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. The post Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.” ” Because I’m like, “Yeah, to what end?

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

GeriPal

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. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Thanks for having us. Who are they?