Have you missed one of our Hot Topic webinars? Perhaps you attended a webinar, and you’d like to share it with a colleague? Or maybe you’d like to re-watch one of the webinars yourself?
The Centre for Palliative Care webinars are all recorded and freely available for viewing after the event. Our webinars provide insights into various facets of evidence-based palliative care, presented by national and international leaders in the field. Overviews of our webinars are below.
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Providing palliative care for people in prison
Providing optimal palliative and end-of-life care for people in prison with advanced disease is a growing challenge globally. This presentation by Professor Jennifer Philip and Dr Stacey Panozzo reflects on the complexities and constraints of providing care for people in prison with life limiting illness and explores opportunities to improve models of care for those dying in custody.
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Management of NIV in MND & elective withdrawal of ventilation
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting some 2000 Australians. Average life expectancy from symptom onset is around 30 months, with patients showing different clinical phenotypes and rates of progression. Death usually results from ventilatory failure secondary to progressive respiratory muscle weakness and can be complicated by aspiration and respiratory infection. Offering respiratory support through non-invasive assisted ventilation (NIV) is considered best practice and can improve quality of life, symptoms and survival in selected patients. This presentation by Dr Rowan Hearn, Dr Susan Mathers and A/Prof Mark Howard discuss the management of NIV in MND and the elective withdrawal of ventilation.
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Recent developments in bereavement risk assessment & bereavement care
Bereavement risk assessment in end-of-life care has been identified as a critical indicator of quality practice. In this presentation, Chris Hall from the Australian Centre for Grief & Bereavement presents validated methods of assessing bereavement risk, the efficacy of bereavement interventions for sub-groups of bereaved individuals and how we might link bereavement risk assessment to a range of bereavement interventions.
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Respiratory Supportive Care: A flexible model of respiratory & palliative care for patients with advanced lung disease
Patients with advanced lung disease often have higher symptom burden and lower quality of life than patients with advanced lung cancer. Additionally, as their disease progresses these patients require frequent hospitalisation with their length of hospital stay estimated to be twice the average. Worldwide, the financial cost to healthcare services is significant. Dr Julie McDonald from St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne discusses an innovative program that has been established at a large metropolitan Australian health service to better meet the complex needs of these patients.
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Annual Lecture - Improving Palliative Care for People with Neurological Illness: National and International Perspectives
The Centre’s Annual Lecture explored different models and strategies to better meet the palliative care needs of patients with neurological illnesses and their families, drawing upon the latest evidence from Australia and overseas. Presented by Dr Benzi Kluger from University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA and Dr Susan Mathers from Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, Victoria, Australia, the lecture explores several models and strategies to better meet the palliative care needs of patients and families affected by neurological illness.
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The Power of Language: Perspectives From Palliative Care
The language used to describe illness, treatments, prognosis and death in our world is steeped in history, culture, meaning and implications. Over time, our language changes as cultural understandings and practices change, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the care of those who are dying. Prof Jennifer Philip, A/Prof Mark Boughey, Dr Jenny Weil and Dr Anna Collins presented their reflections on language used in the care of those with advanced illness and in palliative care from their key perspectives, and offered thoughts on how we can improve our communication.
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CarerHelp: Helping your family carers be prepared for end of life care
CarerHelp (www.carerhelp.com.au) is an online resource for people who are caring for a friend or family member with an advanced disease during the last months of life. Dr Tina Thomas and A/Prof Mark Boughey discuss how CarerHelp can assist carers by providing evidence-based information via fact sheets, learning modules, videos, and interactive resources, and is also helpful for health professionals working with people with advanced disease and their families.
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Planning for the COVID-19 pandemic
From the ICU and palliative care perspectives, A/Prof Antony Tobin and A/Prof Mark Boughey discuss how the challenges of the 2003 SARS epidemic may have helped inform our practices during the current pandemic and how the emerging frameworks can be considered for palliative care need during future pandemics.
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