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"Palliative" Inotropes?!?: Podcast with Haider Warraich
In your clinical experience, you may have cared for patients receiving palliative chemotherapy and wondered, hmmm, why is that called "palliative" chemotherapy? We've written about this issue previously here at GeriPal ("a term that should be laid to rest") as has Pallimed ("an oxymoron").
Well, now we have "palliative" inotropes for people with heart failure. And we have to ask, is this a fitting term? And the answer is...complex...more so than you might think. Recall that in one of our earliest podcasts, we talked with Nate Goldstein who memorably proclaimed "the best palliative care for…
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