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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

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. I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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

GeriPal

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So the first order on all POLST forms is around code status.