Episode 12 - Pain in Dementia - Terminal Dyspnea

Steve and Laura discuss assessment of pain in patients with cognitive deficits, and review current concepts in terminal dyspnea management.

There will be no HPM Talk this month, but please head on over to the Physician/Advance Practice Practitioner myNHPCO community site to see a presentation of Easy Opioid Conversion, presented by Dr. Steven Baumrucker, MD, FAAFP, FAAHPM.  Also, visit the MyNHPCO Physician/ Advance Practice Provider Community (NHPCO member sign-in required)

For episode 7, at the recent NHPCO Interdisciplinary Conference in New Orleans Dr. Bernice Burkarth had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Ronald Crossno about medical marijuana.

Episode 6: Join Bernice Burkarth MD and Kelli Nelson ARNP in an interview exploring the role of the nurse practitioner in a community based palliative care program.

Episode 5: Join Dr. Robert Crook MD as he discusses documentation supportive of ongoing hospice eligibility in patients with long lengths of stay

Episode 4: Hear Robert Crook MD review tips for documentation supportive of hospice eligibility.

Episode 3: Hear Robert Crook MD discuss the factor of advanced age in prognostication as well as prognostication in the setting of Cancer, End Stage Liver Disease, End Stage Renal Disease, and Dementia.Dr. Crook shares with us the use and application of the MELD score, the ADEPT tool, and the Mortality Risk Index Score.