Palliative Medicine Section Newsroom

March 3, 2023 • Palliative Medicine Section

Palliative Pulse - March 2023

March newsletter featuring clinical pearls, education/training resources, ED palliative program highlight, research article of the month, leaders in transition, and section announcements.

November 30, 2021 • Palliative Medicine Section

Now Available: “Pre-Hospital Providers Perspectives on Palliative and Hospice Care” Course

The new course “Pre-Hospital Providers Perspectives on Palliative and Hospice Care” is available here https://link.prodigyems.com/palliative-care . Please follow the link to create a free account to a...

October 14, 2021 • Palliative Medicine Section

ED Palliative Pulse - October 2021

October newsletter featuring clinical pearls, ED palliative program highlight, research article of the month and section announcements.

March 19, 2021 • Palliative Medicine Section

Monthly ED Palliative Pulse - March 2021

March 2021 newsletter featuring the clinical pearl of the month, a spotlight on ED palliative programs, and more.

January 29, 2021

Monthly ED Palliative Pulse - January 2021

January newsletter featuring the clinical pearl of the month, a spotlight on ED palliative programs, and more.

January 13, 2021

Download the EM Code Status Guide

For older adults with serious, life-limiting illness (i.e., terminal illness with less than one-year prognosis), the decision to initiate critical care/intubation is complex and emotional, especially ...

January 13, 2021

COVID Toolkit: ED Goals of Care Discussions

Bedside discussions about goals of care are essential to align treatments and interventions with patient values.

January 13, 2021

Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians

Rooted in everyday hospital medicine, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses. Spanning emergency medic...

October 5, 2020

Featured Article

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for his recent publication in the Journal of Palliative Medicine entitled “Emergency Department Admission Triggers for Palliative Consultation May Decrease Length of Stay a...

October 5, 2020

In the News

Congratulations to Goett and her colleagues who were awarded a section grant for their project EMS Education of Palliative Care and Hospice Patients! They will be developing palliative care modules fo...

October 5, 2020

What’s Happening

ACEP 2020 is just around the corner. The world has changed in unprecedented ways, and the work of bringing palliative care into the emergency department has only grown in importance.

March 31, 2020

In the News

Coverage from the New York Times on end-of-life care for some of the most vulnerable in society – individuals who are homeless with advanced illness. This eye-opening pictorial essay focuses on the wo...

March 31, 2020

Emergency Department-Based Palliative Interventions

Emergency Department-Based Palliative Interventions: A Novel Approach to Palliative Care in the Emergency Department - The Journal of Palliative Medicine.

October 8, 2019

Events at ACEP19

Join us at ACEP for the following events! Palliative Medicine Section Meeting When: Monday, October 28th 11am - 1pm Location: Hyatt Regency, Centennial Ballroom F, Third Floor Content: Updates on Pall...

October 8, 2019

Association of Emergency Clinicians' Assessment of Mortality Risk With Actual 1-Month Mortality Among Older Adults Admitted to the Hospital

In this prospective cohort study including 10,737 older adults who visited the ED, emergency clinicians’ response of no to the question Surprise Question (“Would you be surprised if your patient died ...

October 8, 2019

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients in the Emergency Department

10 high-yield tips to optimize the ED consultation by PC teams.

October 8, 2019

Research Committee

The research database is up and running on the Palliative Medicine section website! Check it out here To facilitate collaboration and reduce redundancy, we hope you will review this before starting yo...

October 8, 2019

Palliative Section Updates

The Mentoring Program to match mentors and mentees across a diaspora of interests between EM and palliative care is up and running.

February 25, 2019

Member Spotlight - Dr. Kei Ouchi

I am a clinical investigator and clinically active as an associate physician in the Emergency Department (ED) and a home hospital physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospita...

January 29, 2019

Research Committee

Greetings! For the inaugural ACEP Palliative Section Research Committee, we have two exciting updates that we’d like to share with you.

January 23, 2019

Virtual Consultation Service

Are you planning on pursuing a palliative care research, education or quality improvement project within your own institution? Are you seeking specialty training in palliative medicine?

January 23, 2019

Monthly Literature Review

Monthly Literature Review links for your convenience.

December 21, 2018

What's New for 2019

To ring in 2019, we are excited to deliver a revamped ACEP Palliative Care Section newsletter to your inbox!

October 18, 2017

A Voice at AAHPM

Sangeeta Lamba, Kate Aberger, Rebecca Goett, and David Wang will be delivering a lecture at the 2018 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Assembly entitled "Joining Forces with t...

October 18, 2017

Congratulations to Kei Ouchi on his NIH R03 award!

Dr. Ouchi is an attending physician in Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.