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November 30, 2021 • Palliative Medicine Section
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
October newsletter featuring clinical pearls, ED palliative program highlight, research article of the month and section announcements.
March 19, 2021 • Palliative Medicine Section
March 2021 newsletter featuring the clinical pearl of the month, a spotlight on ED palliative programs, and more.
January 29, 2021
January newsletter featuring the clinical pearl of the month, a spotlight on ED palliative programs, and more.
January 13, 2021
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 ...
Bedside discussions about goals of care are essential to align treatments and interventions with patient values.
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
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...
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...
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
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...
Emergency Department-Based Palliative Interventions: A Novel Approach to Palliative Care in the Emergency Department - The Journal of Palliative Medicine.
October 8, 2019
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...
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 ...
10 high-yield tips to optimize the ED consultation by PC teams.
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...
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
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
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
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?
Monthly Literature Review links for your convenience.
December 21, 2018
To ring in 2019, we are excited to deliver a revamped ACEP Palliative Care Section newsletter to your inbox!
October 18, 2017
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...
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.
The newsletter editors are pleased to introduce this new addition to the palliative section newsletter. We will use actual cases to highlight how palliative care made a difference for an emergency de...