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Palliative care

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Improves QOL for patients and families facing life-threatening illness

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4 components of palliative care

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Prevention and relief of suffering
Early identification
Assesment
Pain treatment

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6 principles of palliative care

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Patient and family are a unit
systematic assessment of physical and emotional needs
Communciation and support throughout 
Releive symptoms promptly
Plan ahead and prevent problems
Team approach
4
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Hospice

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Patient centred holistic care focusing on QOL and extending support to families

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EOLC

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Focus on last 6 months of life

6
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% of HIV patients in developing countries

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98%

7
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% of opioids consumed in western countries

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90%

8
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Developing world resources

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5% of cancer resources but 2/3 patients

9
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% of hospital beds taken by EOL patients who dont want it

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20%

10
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% of people who die in hospitals

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60%

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Increase in elderly pop

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2-3x

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People that can benefit from palliative care but dont get it

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100 million

13
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Support and Palliative care indicators tool

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Used identify advanced illness and those in need of palliative care

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6 steps to palliative care

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Discussion about end of life
Assesment, care planning and review 
Coordination of care 
Delivery of high quality services in different settings
Care in the last days of life
After detah--> bereavemnt
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Palliative care areas to imporve

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Recognition of those who are dying
Out of working hoiurs service
Patients without cancer
Greater cultural consideration

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7 Cs Gold standrad of PC

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Communication
Coordination 
Control of symptoms 
Conitnuity out of hours
Continued learning 
Carer supports 
Care in the dying phase
17
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5 rights of patients

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Confidentiality
Pain control 
setting of death 
Degree of carer involvement 
Deny illness
18
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% who think of EOL issues

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74%

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% that support palliative care

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96%

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% that prefer to die at home

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75%

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hours of caregiving required ot die at home

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54 hrs/week

22
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Canadas ranking for quality of death

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11/80

23
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% who suffer from chronic illness

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32%–> 74% of seniors have more than one

24
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% of deaths from chronic illness

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70%

25
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Dementia prevalance

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8% 65 and up

1/3 over 85

26
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Amount saved with hospital based PC

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2.1 billion–> 50% savings

27
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% who feel they cant care give for family

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65%

28
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$ from informal care giving

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25 billion

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Informal care giver

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54% women
44% aged 45-64
28% are raisign children

30
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4 major conditons requiring care

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Aging (28%)
Cancer (11%)
CVD (9%)
Mental illness (7%)

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% of PC doctors who focus on palliative care, and who are specialists

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12% focus on PC

5% are specialists

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% of PC docs that do home visits

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68% for Canada
75% in ontario
44% in Quebec

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Symptoms of dying

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Fatigue
Respiratory secretions
Mouth care
Restlessness and agitation

34
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4 things needed to die at home

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Family or care givers
Adequate nursing care
Night sitting service
Access to specialist palliative care

35
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4 quality outcomes of terminal care

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Preffered place of death
successful symptom management
Spiritual care
Good experience for care givers

36
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4 psychosocial needs

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fear
guilt
anger
uncertainty

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DNACPR

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do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation . Order discussed and kept with patient

38
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4 components of general care at EOL

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Positioning and pressure care
Mouth and eye care
Bladder and bowel care
Fluid and nutrition

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Death anxiety

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Thought by Freud and sociologists to bind and preserve social groups

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4 factors in a death system

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Exposure to detah
life expectancy
Percieved control over forces of nature
Perception on what it means to be human

41
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3 levels in evealution of spirituality

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Routine asessmenrt –> all patients
Multidiscliplinary assessment
Specialist assessment

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Kubler Ross stages

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining 
Depression 
Acceptance
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Total pain

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Includes emotional, social and spiritual suffering as well as physical

44
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Frued

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Reality of death is repeatedly tested until attachment from deceased is withdrawn

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Bowlby 4 stages of bereavemrnt

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numbing
yearning and searching
disorganization and despair
Reorganisation

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Wordens tasks of bereavement

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Accept reality of loss
Work through pain and grief
Adjust to environment which person is missing
Emotionally relocate desceased and move on

47
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Strobe and Schut Dual process theory of coping

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Oscillate betwen loss and restoration

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Klass. et al

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No breaking down of bonds, just create a new healthy attachment that is compatible with existing relationships

49
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Range of response to loss

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Overwhelmed–> immediate response
Controlled: Emotions are avoided
Vulnerability: Can persist in those with limited capacity
Resilience: Growing inner strength

50
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Adult attitude to grief scale

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Assess level of vulnerability to pathologic bereavement

51
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3 complicated bereavement reatcions

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Absent
Delayed
Chronic

52
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Lindeman 5 subgroups of grief symptoms

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Somatic distress
preoccupation with images 
Guilt
Hostility
Meaningless activity
53
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7 Key transition points in holistic assesment of cancer patinets

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diagnosis
beginning of treatment 
completion of primary treatment 
Each new episode of disease
Recognition of incurability
Beginning of end of life
Dying is imminent
54
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emotional thermometer

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Distress, anxiety, depression , anger and help wanted

55
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6 sources for bereavement management

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Written info 
Primary care team 
Specialist bereavement services
Hospital based services
Funeral directors
Volunteers
56
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Fiduciary

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Professional relationship built on trust

57
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Double effect doctrine

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Recognition that bad consequences are possible in doing good –>
Original action is good
Sole intention of the act is good
Good effect is not produced as a consequence of bad effect
Required outcome is significant enough to warrant risk

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4 prima facie principles

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Autonomy
Beneficence
non- maleficence
justice

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Distributive justice

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Fair spread of scarce resources

60
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Deontology

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Good means doing the right thing regardless of outcome. Duty ethics–> some acts are just wrong

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Consequentialism

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Cost-benefit analysis of likely outcome. Good action produces best result for the most people, produces the most benefit despite intentions

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Morality

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Absolute values vs moral relativism

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Kolva study amount of people who were seriously impaired in at least one capacity

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1/3

highest rates in understanding and reasoning

64
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MacCat capacity

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Significantly associated with cognitive funstion and education, not with anxiety or depression

65
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% who have not heard of ACP

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86%

66
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Fowler and Hammer results

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10-15% treated in ICU during final admission
12% wanted life prolonging tretaments
48% had an ACP