#38: Hospice and palliative care: How to manage end of life symptoms

Recognize and manage end of life symptoms with competence and confidence. In this extensive discussion with Dr. Brooke Worster, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Sydney Kimmel Medical College and Medical Director, of the Palliative Care Service at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals we discuss scripts for having difficult conversations, managing patient/family expectations, what comes in the hospice “E” kit, terminal delirium, the “death rattle”, air hunger, and more.

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Time Stamps

00:00 Intro

03:10 Rapid fire questions

08:33 Defining hospice and palliative care

11:28 Case discussion

21:28 Gunderson, MI and Respecting Choices

24:25 How to counsel patients about home hospice?

37:10 Hospice “E” kit and how to use it

42:09 Air hunger, terminal delirium, death rattle, and Cheyne Stokes breathing

52:48 What is the PCM’s role while patient is on hospice?

58:19 Cancer survivorship and palliative care

60:33 Take home points

62:20 Outro

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