October 27, 2016
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Mechanical ventilation in Advanced Dementia
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAbout this episode
This week's GeriPal podcast is all about mechanical ventilation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. In particular, we discuss a new finding that use of mechanical ventilation doubled for these individuals from 2000 to 2013 without a substantial improvement in survival.