Delivery of End-of-Life Care in Patients Requesting Withdrawal of a Left Ventricular Assist Device Using Intranasal Opioids and Benzodiazepines #LVAD #hpm #palliativecare journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Let’s get some good submissions about cardiovascular palliative care! Please submit to our SIG by 4/15/19 for SIG endorsement.

When GOC = GoT amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/01…

Welcome to Prof. Dio Kavalieratos @diokavalieratos, guest speaker at our Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, “Palliative Care v2.0: Promoting Equity Across Diseases & Settings”. UChicago Medicine UPMC #PalliativeCare

Charles Rhee gives a nice presentation RUSH Geriatric Medicine rounds about where we are in integrating #PalliativeCare into the care of patients with #heartfailure RushPalliative Rush University Rush University System for Health UChicago Medicine AAHPM

Abstracts are due this Wednesday, October 23 at noon PT for the State of the Science in Hospice and Palliative Care, March 20-22, 2020. Be sure to get your submissions in soon! #hapc #hapcResearch #hpm #pedpc aahpm.org/stateofthescie…

Webinar from the PCRC with Laura Gelfman, Marie Bakitas, and Nathan Goldstein “Getting to the Heart of the Matter: How the PCRC HF SIG has integrated palliative care research into HF” palliativecareresearch.org/research/inves…

Wonderful webinar by Dr. Nathan Goldstein Nathan Goldstein and Marie Bakitas Marie Bakitas on integration of research into the heart failure palliative care arena. For more information, join the PCRC HF SIG.

JAMA - Kirkland, Washington (Evergreen Hospital) -21 COVID ICU pts -mean age 70 (43-92) -Vent 17 (71%) ARDS - Cardiomyopathy 7 (33%) - 11 died (54%), 8 still vented (38%), 2 improved (9.5%) - no data re decline or vent withdrwal jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Suicide is a major risk for our older patients with diabetes and heart failure. We must mitigate that risk with all this social distancing. #aging #Covid_19

A well articulated resource: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32456514/

My paper about end-of-life care for patients with heart failure was just published by JAHA :). ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…

The Week in Review is now available. Catch up on Academy happenings from this week, including a launch of DEI resources, upcoming Assembly-related deadlines, a letter sent to CMS re: MIPS, the new Impact Report, & a free webinar on April 29. Read on: aahpmblog.org/articles/week-… #hapc

Heart Failure course: Define the prevalence and burden of #heartfailure, recognize and anticipate the disease trajectory and its impact on prognosis and treatment, and identify the sources of suffering >> bit.ly/2UaEvld #hpm #hapc HPM-HeartFailure American Association of Heart Failure Nurses American College of Cardiology

AAHPM heart failure SIG meeting 5/17 at 2p EST. We hope to see you there!

Heart Failure course: Define the prevalence and burden of #heartfailure, recognize and anticipate the disease trajectory and its impact on prognosis and treatment, and identify the sources of suffering >> bit.ly/2UaEvld #hpm #hapc HPM-HeartFailure American Association of Heart Failure Nurses American College of Cardiology

Rural patients with heart failure less likely to die with hospice… #hpm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…