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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers. Home hospice is never an option for someone with no family, no friends, and, often, no home. She had tried to convince herself that his slips were just senior moments of an already eccentric academic. The decision to begin hospice brought guilt, grief, and relief. 

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Issue #1: The Latest in Critical Care, 5/8/23

PulmCCM

Among 2541 patients enrolled in a complicated pragmatic cluster-crossover design at a single academic center, there was no difference in any meaningful outcome (death, ventilator-free days, or severe complications) between patients randomized to an oxygen saturation target of 90%, 94%, or 98%.

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