RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Apr 10, 2025 · 50m

Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. I can't do the primary thing I've been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didn't have the knowledge, skills, or experience…