END OF LIFE CARE: Challenges and Management

Overview:

End-of-life care involves a mixture of challenging concerns and dilemmas which can lead to distress in physicians, healthcare workers, and patients including their families. Similar to all other types of medical care, End-of-life care is equally as important and necessary because it aims to provide comfort to patients and their families during the final phase of a patients’ life. This Family Medicine Grand Rounds presentation will provide high-yield information regarding End-of-Life Care – including why it is important, what the challenges are and how we, as healthcare providers, can address the difficulties surrounding end-of-life care.

Objectives:

1.  Understand why end of life care matters.
2.  Identify the challenges encountered during end-of-life care.
3.  Describe different end-of-life symptoms.
4.  Explain and compare different treatment options and management approaches.

Anna Tenorio, MD
Palliative Care Physician, Houston Methodist Hospital
Instructor, Houston Methodist Academic Institute

Financial Disclosures:

Anna Tenorio, MD has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Margaret Finley, MD, Andrew Dinh, DO, Maureen Alvarado, DO, Richel Avery, MD, Inez I. Cruz, PhD, and Nichole Rubio) have no relevant financial relationships to commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Long San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The Long School of Medicine designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu