Palliative Medicine

Course/event description

This Palliative Medicine course will focus on the assessment and management of complex symptoms and challenging clinical decision-making in patients with advanced illness. The emphasis will be on presentations that are commonly encountered in acute and inpatient settings ensuring the course is clinically relevant for all those who work in the hospital setting. Using case-based presentations, evidence based discussions and the insights and experience of colleagues, each session will provide practical, clinically relevant learning to support confident, compassionate care.

Topics include:

Managing uncontrolled cancer-related pain in the AMU
Recognition and management of palliative care emergencies
Supporting patients who are distressed
The role of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
Reframing a good death
Breathlessness in patients with known lung-cancer
Symptoms and management of raised intracranial pressure

This course is designed to be interactive case-based learning, encouraging shared learning, and will be relevant to all clinicians working across a range of specialties within various care settings, supporting improved symptom control and patient centred decision making.

Course Details

Course details: palliative-medicine-promo-230626.pdf

Course/event description

Course Details

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