Lores Vlaminck – Care When There is No Cure for Patients with End Stage Diseases

What can we do? for patients with COPD who’s seemingly only solution for Exacerbation is A visit to the ER We offer an intervention for this.

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Lores Vlaminck – Care When There is No Cure for Patients with End Stage Diseases

Disease Prognostication: An Inexact Art & Science

• Individualized care: The importance of prognosis (science/art/intuition)
• Determining palliative care vs. hospice care
• Important conversations
• The hospice benefit

Congestive Heart Failure – The Broken Heart

• Best practice: The Seattle HF Model
• Strategies for medication management
• Symptom Management and Pain Management
• Pacemakers, ICDs & LVADs – Living better or prolonging suffering?

Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

• Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Guidelines
• The COPD Assessment Test (CAT).
• Treating dyspnea: “The Pain of Non-Malignant Disease”
• The medication toolbox: Oxygen (bronchodilators), opioids and steroids

Renal Disease

• Proper dialysis use
• Staging disease with Glomerular Filtration Rate
• Predictor of death from hemoodialysis
• Symptom burden
• Inadequate use of hospice
• Opiods with Dialysis

Liver Disease

• Indicators for poor prognosis
• Differentiating between cirrhosis and cirrhosis is The cause
• Most useful analgesics for The pain
• Waiting for The MELD tool is used to transplant patients in hospice.

Advanced Dementia

• GDS FAST
• Pain scales
• The dilemmas and solutions of feeding tube problems
• Interventions in dementia and delirium for Aggression and agitation
• End state dementia

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

• Diagnostic tests for ALS
• Advance directives, life support decisions and advance directives
• Gastrophary and nutrition
• Non–invasive ventilation
• A table listing useful palliative medications and other measures

Advanced Cancer

• The importance of palliative and early care
• Spiritual needs
• Complications and Interventions
  • Compression of spinal cord
  • Superior vena cava syndrome
  • Bowel obstruction
  • Hypercalcemia
  • Fungating wound/terminal Kennedy Ulcer

Eight Warning Signs of Death

The Challenges of Making Decisions

• What do people want for the end of their lives?
• Delirium vs. near death awareness
• The dying have mental health issues
• Palliative Sedation Therapy for intractable symptoms
• Do dying people need to be hydrated? Oxygen? Treatment for rales?

Moral Distress

• Uncomfortable patient/family scenarios
• Ethical dilemmas
• Medication errors
• Conflicted consciences

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Description:

Preserving a patient’s legacy – Harold’s story…

Harold was a patient with He was diagnosed with metastatic bowel carcinoma, and he only had a few months left to live. His life was a culmination of many years spent transforming farmland into a village he loved. Harold was very grateful for this legacy. Harold created posters from photos and even used his carpentry skills for a complete model of the town to preserve this heritage. He was a hospice visitor and his sole focus was to teach his caregivers about the legacy. with His death.

His caregivers began videotaping him sharing the story of his village – but that wasn’t enough for Harold. His permission was granted and a local TV station was set up to cover the model, the photos, as well as the stories behind them. Harold was not mentioned by any TV staff. Harold was thrilled and at peace when the video was broadcast on the local TV station. His legacy was left intact, and he passed away shortly thereafter.

This compelling recording is multiple case studies like Harold’s will provide you with Caretaking examples you can use for Caring for the terminally ill for patients with End stage disease requires exceptional compassion and extreme sensitivity. To provide expert and holistic care, healthcare professionals should have a full toolbox. Innovative interventions that improve the quality of your life

Every end-stage disease is unique. for The healthcare professional, the family, and patient – this recording will detail specific strategies for Care for These patients.

Did you know that patients who are awaiting a liver transplant may be able to receive hospice care while they wait? This will be discussed. is done.

What can we do? for patients with COPD who’s seemingly only solution for Exacerbation is A visit to the ER We offer an intervention for this.

How can we lower costs while still providing excellent patient care? We’ll give you the latest strategies, proven successful in practice.

It’s time to think outside the box.

This recording is not for you. with New tools for Quality support and care is no cure.

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