Approximately 75% of patients older than 65 years of age are seen in an ED within 6 months of their death. While palliative care teams are now present in many hospitals in the US, they are often not present 24/7 or in resource-limited settings. As such, there may be an opportunity to improve palliative care in the ED by providing palliative care education to ED team members. In this podcast, we review the recently published PRIM-ER trial, which evaluated the impact of a robust primary palliative care intervention on hospital admission rates in 29 EDs across the US.
Approximately 350,000 adults in the US experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Despite numerous potential improvements in treatments, survival from OHCA remains essentially unchanged...
Both NIV and HFNC are used to treat patients with acute respiratory failure. Current guidelines recommend NIV for acute respiratory failure caused by COPD...
Patients with severe aortic stenosis who present with acute decompensated heart failure are among the most challenging patients to resuscitate. In this podcast, we...