We plan to provide courses on the following sections covered under the curriculum for Palliative Care. Links to individual courses available on specific topics provided below.
General
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment (Already covered) See course by Jeanette S. Ross, MD, AGSF, FAAHPM here
- Delerium care in advanced illness and end of life care (Already covered) See course by Dr. Jason A.Webb, MD, FAPA here
- Dementia: Managing behavioral and psychological Symptoms
- Hip fractures in the elderly: Prognosis and goals of care
- Managing sleep disorders and fatigue
- Skin conditions: Pressure ulcers, wounds (malignant/infectious), pruritus/excoriations, managing odor/drainage)
- Withdrawing non-beneficial treatment while maintaining care
GI issues in palliative care
- Feeding and swallowing issues
- Nutrition and hydration in serious illness
- Anorexia, cachexia, and weightloss
- Nausea, SBO, constipation
- Incontinence, fecal and urinary
Emergencies in palliative care
- Intractable pain
- Acute dyspnea
- Major bleeding
- Acute function loss
- Acute anxiety
- Delirium
- Epileptic seizures
- Aggressive behavior
Pain management
- Managing musculoskeletal pain in the elderly
- Opiate pain medication (indications, risks, morphine equivalency, methadone, PCA)
- Options for localized pain control (nerve blocks)
- Pain management in serious illness
- Cancer pain
Psychosocial issues
- Refractory and end of life depression and anxiety
- Grief, bereavement, and psychosocial issues
Respiratory issues in palliative care
- Dyspnea and nausea
- Palliative extubation
- Managing other (not dyspnea) respiratory symptoms: coughing, singultus, oral secretions, aspiration
End of life care
- Improving end of life care in ED
- Heart failure palliative care (CHF, Aortic Stenosis, Ischemic Heart disease)
- End of life care in Cirrhosis
- End of life care in AIDS
- Renal palliative care
