CME Palliative Care

Palliative Care: Promising Support, Comfort and Dignity
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Medical Office Building/Rowland Hall - Room 340A
Terry Auditorium
4190 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

Katherine E. Galluzzi, DO, CMD, FACOFP dist.
Program Chairperson

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7:30 a.m.	Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m.	Welcome Introductory to Palliative Care Katherine E. Galluzzi, DO, CMD, FACOFP dist., Professor and Chairperson, Department of Geriatrics, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
8:00 a.m.	Palliative care and Hospice overview: Promise of Support Nicol Joseph, DO, Instructor, Department of Geriatrics, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
8:45 a.m.	Pain management: Promise of Comfort Gregory Busch, DO, MS, CMD, Executive Medical Director ACE Units and Palliative Care Services, Medical Director of Operations Virtua Berlin and Post-Acute Services
9:30 a.m.	Symptom Management: Promise of Dignity Janet Lieto, DO, Medical Advisor and Attending Physician, Samaritan Hospice
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine for End of Life Symptoms David C. Mason, DO, FACOFP, Associate Professor and Acting Chairman, Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine
11:15 a.m.	OMM lab- Hands-on symptom care session David C. Mason, DO, FACOFP and Program Faculty
12:15 - 1 p.m.	Q & A / Adjourn

Upon completion of this Program, participants will be able to:

Recognize the unique role for palliative care in providing pain and symptom control and support for families and caregivers of patients with serious, life-threatening illness.

Understand that palliative care should be offered along with curative modalities to patients with serious illness.

Recognize the requirement for hospice care and how these differ from the palliative care initiative.

Identify types of pain and the pharmacologic agents best suited for providing analgesia.

Demonstrate competency in prescribing, dose-adjusting and rotating potent opioid analgesics for relief of moderate to severe pain.

Appropriately prescribe medications from numerous classes for management of distressing symptoms such as dyspnea, nausea/vomiting, constipation, delirium, pruritis, anxiety and depression.

Acknowledge the central role for OMM as both potentially curative and always adjunctive to other treatments for pain and symptom relief.

Demonstrate hands-on ability to deliver effective osteopathic treatments vital and adjunctive to the comprehensive palliative care plan.

Continuing education credit Physicians: "The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has requested that the AOA Council on Continuing Medical Education approve this program for five hours of AOA Category 1-A CME credits. Approval is currently pending." Sign-in and full day attendance of program is required for credit. All faculty participating in continuing medical education programs sponsored by PCOM are expected to disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

Parking On-campus parking is available in our garage, please enter on Stout Road. All-day parking is $5.00. Please note: the automated gate takes quarters or one, five and ten dollar bills.

Fee policies Physicians $125.00, Physician Assistants and other Health Care Professionals, $75.00. Registration fees for Saturday and Sunday programs are not refundable, nor can they be credited to future programs.

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