Care When There is No Cure for Patients with End Stage Diseases by Lores Vlaminck
Duration:6 Hours 30 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video
Circuit:
Disease Prediction: Inaccurate Art & Science
Personalized care: the importance of prognosis (science / art / intuition)
Definition of palliative care versus hospice care
Decisive conversations
Hospice benefit
Congestive Heart Failure: Broken Heart
Best Practice: Seattle KV Model
Drug management strategies
Symptomatic treatment and pain relief
Pacemakers, IKD and Lvad – Better Live or Prolong Suffering?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Global Guidelines for Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD)
COPD Assessment Test (CAT)
Dyspnea Treatment: “Pain in Non-Malignant Disease”
Medication toolbox: oxygen, bronchodilators, opioids and steroids
kidney disease
Proper use of dialysis
Disease stage with glomerular filtration rate
Predictor of hemodialysis mortality
Burden of symptoms
Underutilization of hospice
Dialysis opioids
liver disease
Poor forecast indicators
Differentiation when cirrhosis is the cause
Most helpful analgesics for pain
Waiting for a transplant while in hospice: using the MELD instrument
Progressive Dementia
GDS: FAST
Pain scales
Feeding tube dilemmas – and the results
Delirium and Dementia: Interventions for Arousal and Aggression
The final state of dementia
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Diagnostic tests for ALS
Preliminary directives and decisions on life support
Nutrition and gastrostomy
Non-invasive lung ventilation
Table of beneficial medicines and palliative measures
Advanced Cancer
The importance of early palliative care
Spiritual inquiries
Complications and interventions
Spinal cord compression
Superior vena cava syndrome
Intestinal obstruction
Hypercalcemia
Fungating wounds ulcers / terminal Kennedy
Eight signs of impending death
Challenging Decisions
What do people want at the end of their lives?
Delirium versus dying consciousness
The mental health needs of the dying
Palliative sedation for intractable symptoms
Does a dying person need hydration? Oxygen? Wheezing treatment?
Moral Suffering
Inconvenient patient / family scenarios
Ethical dilemma
Errors in taking medication
Conflict of conscience.
Description:
Preserving the Patient’s Legacy – Harold’s Story …
Harold was a patient with metastatic colon cancer with only a few months to live. Throughout his life, he was instrumental in transforming acres of farmland into a village he fell in love with. This legacy was extremely important to Harold. In an effort to keep this legacy alive, he made large posters from photographs and even used his carpenter skills to create an entire model of the city. During his visits to the hospice, he only focused on educating his caregivers about this legacy; he did not want it to be lost with his death.
His caregivers started filming him telling the story of his village, but that wasn’t enough for Harold. With his permission, a local TV station was turned on and focused on the model, the photographs and the stories behind them. The TV people never mentioned that Harold was sick. The video was broadcast on the local station, and Harold was ecstatic – and at peace. He died shortly afterwards, retaining his legacy.
In this compelling post, numerous case studies such as Harold’s research will provide you with examples you can use in caring for the terminally ill. Caring for end-stage patients requires extreme sensitivity, deep compassion and extraordinary knowledge. To provide skilled, holistic care, healthcare providers must have a toolbox full of new interventions to improve quality of life.
Each specific end-stage disease has unique challenges for the patient, family, and healthcare professional – and this record will cover specific strategies for caring for these patients.
Did you know that a patient in need of a liver transplant can stay in hospice while waiting? We will discuss how this is done.
What can we do for COPD patients who seemingly have a seemingly only way out of an emergency visit to the emergency department? For this we have an intervention.
How can we keep costs down without sacrificing patient care? We provide you with the latest strategies that have proven to be successful in practice.
It’s time to think outside the box.
Walk away from this record with new tools for quality support – and care when there is no cure.
Take Care When There is No Cure for Patients with End Stage Diseases by Lores Vlaminck at Whatstudy.com
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- Lectures 0
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- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 150
- Assessments Yes
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