Mayo Clinic Palliative Medicine in Clinical Practice 2017

Topics

• Formulate a strategy for communicating with patients and families with a serious illness about their overall goals of care
• Develop an approach for managing pain in patients with a terminal illness including a toolbox for alternate routes of administration, when to recognize aberrant opioid use behaviors and how to collaborate with Pain clinicians in the care of these patients
• Develop a framework for assessing patient prognosis and how to apply to patients with medical frailty
• Identify barriers/pitfalls/conflicts to communicating with patients and families with serious illness and conclude how to overcome them
• Identify practical tools for managing debilitating symptoms for patients at the end of life

Who should Attend

Clinicians who work with patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses.