Educational Videos
Short videos to help you understand what procedures actually look like.
When a family is facing difficult decisions about CPR, intubation, or comfort-focused care, it can help to have a visual sense of what those things actually involve. These videos are made to support education and informed conversation — not to replace clinical guidance.
Important: This information is for general education only. It is not medical advice and does not replace your relationship with your healthcare team. These videos are not a substitute for a conversation with the clinicians managing a patient's care.
How These Videos Were Made
Video methodology and disclosure
Transparency about how educational content is created is important. These videos were generated using AI video tools and developed by the HealthBuddy AI team under the clinical direction of Travis Boyer, NP, ACHPN.
These are pilot and test renders. They were created to explore whether AI-generated short-form video can accurately and helpfully depict clinical scenarios that families often struggle to understand — things like what CPR actually looks like, what happens during intubation, and what a comfort-focused care setting may look like.
What that means for the viewer
- These videos are AI-generated. They are not filmed in a hospital or clinical setting.
- They are intended for general educational orientation only — not as technical medical training.
- Some renders may have visual limitations or anatomical imprecisions. Content is reviewed against clinical accuracy standards before publication, but no AI-generated video is a perfect depiction.
- These videos have been reviewed for general accuracy and appropriate framing by a clinician with hospice and palliative care experience.
- As the library grows, each video will carry a review note with reviewer name, credential, and date.
Why this approach
Most families have never seen CPR performed in real life. When they are asked to make decisions about resuscitation, they may be imagining something they have only seen in television dramas — which tend to depict outcomes that differ substantially from what happens in clinical settings, particularly for frail or seriously ill patients. These videos attempt to give a more honest, calm, and informative picture.
The goal is not to steer any particular decision. It is to give families access to a more grounded visual understanding before a crisis conversation, so that their choices can be more genuinely informed.
CPR
What resuscitation may look like
These videos were created to give a clearer picture of what CPR involves in practice — including the physical intensity, the clinical team environment, and what it looks like for a frail patient. Different renders explore different aspects of the scenario.
CPR — Test B (Team environment)
CPR — Test C (Frail patient, close-up)
Intubation
What intubation involves
Intubation means placing a breathing tube through the throat and into the airway to support or control a patient's breathing. It is often discussed in goals-of-care conversations. This video is intended to give a general sense of what the procedure involves.
Intubation — Test v1
Context note: Intubation and mechanical ventilation are significant interventions. Whether they are appropriate depends entirely on the patient's condition, goals, and the clinical situation. If you are trying to understand this in the context of a specific patient, please talk with the care team.
Comfort-Focused Care
What comfort-focused care may look like
Comfort-focused care emphasizes relief of suffering, dignity, and peace. It may look very different from the intensive interventions shown in other videos. This video is intended to give a sense of that difference.
Comfort Care — Test v1
Educational boundary: These videos are general orientation tools. What comfort care looks like in practice varies by setting, illness, and patient goals. Hospice and palliative care teams can explain what comfort-focused care would mean for a specific patient in a specific situation.