Disease guidelines based on numeric age will eventually become obsolete

Better guidelines consider physiologic age
Function
Cognition
Multimorbidity

And most importantly, What Matters to the patient

#MedMastodon #MedTwitter #Geriatrics #Medicine #dignity #PatientCenteredDesign #PatientsOverProfits #PatientFirst

A patient was sad today because they’re stuck in the hospital after a fall, was told to go to rehab, but had no way to look after their pet bird

The bird is the only thing living with them for the past 7 years

Pet is family
Health care is multifactorial
We can do better

#MedMastodon #MedTwitter #Geriatrics #Medicine #dignity #PatientCenteredDesign #PatientsOverProfits #PatientFirst

Do you have patients who didn’t pass swallow evaluation?

I did today

Until I called family
And retested when family was present

Patient passed in a single try with flying colors

Family is an *integral* part of the patient care team

#MedMastodon #MedTwitter #Geriatrics #Dementia #Medicine #dignity #PatientCenteredDesign #PatientsOverProfits #PatientFirst

Mapzot Develops A.i. for Medical & Urgent Care Real Estate

Opening high-performing urgent care locations involve multiple factors and a very comprehensive analysis that requires experience in handling highly regulated data.

https://mapzot.com/news/mapzot-develops-a-i-for-medical-urgent-care-real-estate

#Concentra #MedExpressUrgent Care #AmericanFamilyCare #U.S.HealthWorks #NextCare #FastMed #PatientFirst #CityMDUrgentCare #CareNow #GoHealthUrgentCare #MedPostUrgentCare #DoctorsCare #FastPaceUrgentCare #CentraCare #PIC

We *should* expect patients to pull out IVs&try to get out of bed

It's not normal to be tied to IVs
It's not normal to be in bed all day

Our job *is not* to stop patients from pulling lines/getting out of bed

Our job is to help patients get as close to *normal life* as possible

#MedMastodon #MedTwitter #Geriatrics #Dementia #Medicine #dignity #PatientCenteredDesign #PatientsOverProfits #PatientFirst

A happy reminder that many hospitals in the world 🌟encourage🌟 patients to wear their own clothes, eat in the dining room with other patients, and exercise in group as part of physical therapy

Dignity
Independence
Community

It’s all possible

#MedMastodon #MedTwitter #Geriatrics #Dementia #Medicine #dignity #PatientCenteredDesign #PatientsOverProfits #PatientFirst

RT @cardiac_md
Updates on Nuclear Cardiology for chest pain imaging by ⁦⁦@almallahmo⁩ , ASNC President, prolific researcher and ⁦@BWHCVImaging⁩ alumnus.

#PatientFirst > any 1 modality first

⁦#whycmr #thinkPET #scmr23 ⁦@MyASNC⁩ ⁦⁦@SCMRorg⁩

Made it easier to quickly discuss need for Antiplatelet agent when they saw stent structure “foreign object” that could clot.

#patientfirst #sdm https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1608134008327790596

Point:
N=~12,000 #cardiacPET in a 2-year period. Experienced PET readers in mature program (high degree of collaboration in ED and Interventional cards).

Score may help augment reader. Routinely incorporates ancillary data (mbf, cac, tid, IB, etc.). #cvnuc #patientfirst
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RT @VietHeartPA
#CardiacPET is a great stress imaging modality for identifying epicardial and microvascular ischemia, coronary calcium, and poor LV fxn. How well d…
https://twitter.com/VietHeartPA/status/1605318471860244481