We’re delighted to announce our top 10 blogs for 2023! Catherine Walshe Palliative Medicine eapcnet.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/ann…

“palliative care, at its best, is a form of preventive care” - David Hui doi.org/10.3322%2Fcaac… Cicely Saunders Int MD Anderson News

I recently shared a study on ⁦LinkedIn⁩ about setting goals as a way to overcome avoidance of boring tasks. What followed was a great discussion in the comments, about the tactics people found helpful for being #productive This inspired me to create this #infographic

Grow in private!

Signs of Emotional Intellgence

RE; Association for Palliative Medicine refutes accusations of misleading and stifling debate | The BMJ bmj.com/content/387/bm…

"reveals significant gaps in availability & use of essential #medicines 4 #palliativecare & underscores need for standardized guidelines & enhanced education. Addressing these issues critical 4 alleviating serious health-related suffering - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (JPSM) jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-…

We don’t hear enough from psychiatrists in the assisted dying / suicide debate imo. Good piece by Prof Allan House carefully deconstructing Kim Leadbeater’s Bill. Makes several very important points. betterwaycampaign.co.uk/psychiatrist-w…

Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Read the full statement: hospiceuk.org/latest-from-ho…

The importance of social work and palliative care in aged care cannot be overlooked. Thanks Palliative Care Australia and Jo Wood for these insights and advocacy. youtu.be/ZmAUJNGhqOw?fe…

“It’s rarely just the opioids in palliative care” -Infection -Organ failure -Seizure -Biochemical imbalance -Hypoglycaemia -Hypoxia -Gabapentinoids -Brain or leptomeningeal metastases -Normal dying Can all cause drowsiness and confusion as well as lowering the threshold for

Patients treated by female physicians have better outcomes than those treated by men- our work led by Kiyan Heybati and Angela Jerath MD, MSc published today ➡️ bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10… Physician patient concordance associated with better outcomes particularly between female

When discussing serious health issues with patients, it’s crucial to ask permission each time a serious topic is broached… people may have specific needs, timing, or preferences they’d like to voice before you “go there.”

🌟 NON INFECTIOUS CAUSES OF FEVER IN ICU From Infectious Diseases in Critical Care, Case-Based Approach

To support prescribing decisions for older people with moderate to severe frailty, we recently published our Pragmatic Prescribing guidance. Endorsed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians, this document was an instant hit. buff.ly/n33nYtM

Repeated needle pricks for drawing blood for tests may become a thing of the past. Aletta is a robot that makes drawing blood completely automated. Aletta® Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device™ is not yet approved by the FDA.

💡 One of the most important findings in delirium research in recent years, and I think it's still not widely enough known. The DECIDE study (Richardson et al, Age and Ageing 2021) followed 305 older adults from the population-based CFAS II-Newcastle cohort. They compared

More than 1 in 3 older inpatients in this study were dehydrated. Dehydrated patients: 13% higher odds of falling (OR 1.13, P=.002). ↳ Dehydration is cheap to fix - but easy to miss. 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 ⇉ Do you check fluid status on every ward round?

Things we often screen for on acute medical admission in older people: - Sepsis - VTE risk - Falls risk - Pressure ulcer risk - Nutritional status - Frailty But many places still mostly don't screen for: - Delirium BUT Delirium independently predicts mortality,