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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code. What can we nurses do to support informed choices? Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. were made by patients with cancer.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. Here is a list of important information that you might want to share with your child’s palliative care team so that they understand you, your child, and your family. Your own concerns and hopes.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. Here is a list of important information that you might want to share with your child’s palliative care team so that they understand you, your child, and your family. Your own concerns and hopes.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. Here is a list of important information that you might want to share with your child’s palliative care team so that they understand you, your child, and your family. Your own concerns and hopes.

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

GeriPal

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jacky: Thank you. It’s a pleasure. He’s at the University of Pittsburgh.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

But we had her code, each doctor’s interaction with the Black patient and the white patient, and she coded it with video using detailed information about how many times they touched the patient, how close they got to the patient’s bed, where their body was positioned, and whether they had open or closed body posture. Amber: I do.