Geriatricizing the ICU
July 3, 2018
For today’s GeriPal Podcast we talk with Drs. Nathan Brummel and Lauren Ferrante, both critical care physician-researchers, about integrating geriatrics…
NEJM Family-Support Intervention Trial, Breakthrough or Bust? Podcast with Doug White
June 1, 2018
This week’s guest is Doug White, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and lead author of…
Jessica Zitter on Palliative Care in the ICU
February 20, 2017
In this GeriPal Podcast we talk with Dr. Jessica Zitter, a pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine physician. Jessica Zitter…
JAMA ICU Trial: Messaging, Information Toxicity, and The Simpsons
July 13, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD There’s been some terrific discussion about the ICU trial published in JAMA. I’d like to share…
Just ask-tell-ask: Physician-Surrogate discordance about prognosis in the ICU
May 18, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I’m sure that all of us have encountered this scenario: the doctor thinks patient’s prognosis is…
New guidelines address conflicts over “potentially inappropriate” treatment in the ICU
May 27, 2015
By: Laura Petrillo, @lpetrillz Summary Decisions about life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit are among the most ethically fraught…