End of Life Care; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Delivering excellent End of Life Care in the Emergency Care is a real challenge but also a huge privilege and has formed some of the most rewarding parts of our careers to date.

We've been really keen to End of Life Care as a topic for a while now. Many, if not all of you, will have been out to these patients or received them in your ED.

They aren’t simple cases to manage, with lots of issues around scope of practice, lack of alternative care pathways, confusion surrounding legal documentation and many studies have identified a lack of education around palliative care.

In this episode we’ll do our best to demystify those medico-legal terms, talk about care pathways and options that may be available to us, have a think about how we can talk with patients about death and then go on to discuss the clinical care we might need to deliver and the wider holistic nature of caring for these patients and their loved ones.

We're lucky enough to be joined by Ed Presswood, who's a palliative care consultant and clearly an expert on the topic. We gained a massive amount from this episode and we hope you find it really useful too.

You'll find the hyperlinks to some fantastic resources on the topic over on the webpage at TheResusRoom.

Once again we'd love to hear any comments or questions either via the website or social media.

Enjoy!

Simon, Rob & James

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:03.5	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:12.3	So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:15.5	I'm Simon Lang.
0:16.9	I'm Rob Fenwick.
0:18.0	And I'm James Yates.
0:19.2	And we're back after our summer hiatus with another
0:22.5	roadside to recess on a really really important topic on end of life care yeah we certainly are
0:29.3	and I'm really really excited to get my teeth into this episode I really really wanted to cover
0:33.5	this topic for quite some time now so I'm, really glad that it's finally kind of come to
0:37.6	fruition. Yeah, and before we get into it, a really big thanks to Zol Medical Corporation for
0:43.1	collaborating with us on the podcast and making this whole project free and open access and
0:48.5	available to you. And as we mentioned in September's papers of the month, Zol are hosting three
0:54.1	pediatric webinars this September.
0:56.8	Two of them will still be available to join in for free to check out the hyperlink on the web page.
1:02.2	And also in the month of September and October, there are a couple of Zol masterclasses with the Zol Live and Totem medical events coming up. So again, make sure you check
1:13.2	out the web page for the links to those events. So we've got a really special guest joining
1:18.7	us for this episode to add some great depth of knowledge and some really good pearls of wisdom.
1:23.7	So without further ado, let's crack into the episode.
1:30.8	So like I said, like Simon with his trauma survey episode, I have been really keen to cover
1:36.2	this topic for quite some time now because I'm sure many, if not all of you, will have been
1:41.0	out to these patients or receive them in your ED. And I don't know about
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