Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Mechanical ventilation in Advanced Dementia
- Author
- Alex Smith and Eric Widera
- Published
- Thu 27 Oct 2016
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geripal/290193707-geripal-geripal-podcast-3-keep-your-hands-to-yourself.mp3
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.
