Palliative Pearls

Your Patients Need Your Help

Your Patients Need Your Help

October 2017 - "VitalTalk Tips" – A free app to help you with difficult conversations. VitalTalk Tips is free and easy to use. Its layered structure allows you to use it to quickly review a topic before a difficult conversation or to study in greater depth. It sends a...

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Words Can Heal

October 2017 - VitalTalk Tips – A free app to help you with difficult conversations. VitalTalk Tips is free and easy to use. Its layered structure allows you to use it to quickly review a topic before a difficult conversation or to study in greater depth. It sends a...

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Who Will Decide if You Can’t?

Who Will Decide if You Can’t?

August 2017 - Establishing Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (DPOA-HC) is a gentle way to start advance care planning. In the state of Washington, if no DPOA-HC has been established, the responsibility for medical decision making for an incapacitated adult...

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Taper BP Meds for Falling, Frail Elders

Taper BP Meds for Falling, Frail Elders

July 2017 - Study shows burden may outweigh the benefit for managing hypertension in elders with a history of falls. Antihypertensive medications were associated with an increased risk of a serious fall injury, particularly among those with previous falls. The...

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Olanzapine (Zyprexa) for Nausea

Olanzapine (Zyprexa) for Nausea

June 2017 - Olanzapine has “broad spectrum” activity for difficult to treat nausea. Olanzapine has broad activity at dopaminergic and serotonin receptors as well as activity along histaminic, muscarinic, and alpha-adrenergic pathways. Nausea treatment includes...

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