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Advance decisions
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareGerontologyLearn the history of advance decisions and what they are, learn how to advise someone who is planning to draft an advance decision, and learn about legal issues and ambiguities regarding advance decisions.
An introduction to advance care planning in practice
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareGerontologyThe purpose of this activity is to review the benefits and potential risks of advance care planning, how to and when to broach the subject with patients, how the mental capacity act relates to advance care planning, and the types of documents that can ari
Ask the consultant: Palliative care medicine
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareIn our series for internal medicine trainees, Dr Chris Farnham, medical director of the Heart of Kent Hospice, answers usersâ questions on switching opioids, managing nausea and vomiting, prescribing in patients with renal and liver disease, starting fl
Breaking bad news: a how to do it guide
30 minutes
Cancer and Palliative CareHaematology, Pathology and InfectionA module on breaking bad news in a sensitive and individual way, and developing a clinical plan to support future consultations.
Care of the dying patient in the community
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareThe purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology of the preferred place of death, factors associated with achieving preferred place of death, how to identify those in the last year of life. It also aimed to review the concept of anticipatory car
End of life care: a guide for GPs
30 minutes
Cancer and Palliative CareThis read, reflect, and respond module in the form of an audio podcast explores how to achieve a good death"
Nausea and vomiting in palliative care
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareThe purpose of this activity is to review the underlying causes, investigations, choice of antiemetic, and antiemetic side effects in patients with nausea and vomiting in the palliative care setting
Palliative care in non-malignant disease
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareA comprehensive guide to recognising when a patient needs palliative care at end stage respiratory, heart or renal failure.
Palliative care in patients with heart failure
1 hour
Cancer and Palliative CareThe purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology, symptoms, limitations, quality of life, palliative care interventions, and disease trajectory in patients with heart failure.
The management of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness
1 hour
Respiratory and SmokingCancer and Palliative CareThe purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness, review the impact and measurement of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness, discuss the ev
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