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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers. Home hospice is never an option for someone with no family, no friends, and, often, no home.

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

PulmCCM

Among 1150 patients considered high risk for aspiration at 15 French hospitals, those randomized to receive remifentanil had a higher rate of severe complications of intubation (aspiration, hypoxemia, hypotension, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, or anaphylaxis), compared to those receiving neuromuscular blockade. This feels like a bad sign.

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