Introduction
Welcome to the TAPM
Audio Series, a collection of presentations on topics for physicians and other
healthcare professionals with an interest in hospice & palliative medicine.
This is offered as part of TAPM's mission to support medical education
and the scientific advancement of palliative medicine.
Background
TAPM has partnered with VistaCare to create this series. Since 2001, VistaCare has held a regular
hospice and palliative medicine educational teleconference for its hospice
medical directors. Each teleconference is facilitated by
a
senior medical director,
each of whom is American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine certified.
Recent calls have been
recorded and from these the following nine modules were created. Each
module can be easily downloaded and accessed by anyone. Please click on each of the modules listed
below to go to the page describing each presentation in detail and to download
the audio file, resource materials, post-test and post-test reporting/evaluation
form.
Module 1: Opioid
Pain Management
Module 2: Neuropathic
Pain & Adjuvant Therapy
Module 3: Acute Infections
in Hospice
Module 4: Seizures in End of Life
Module 5: Metastatic Pain Management
Module 6: Cachexia, Anorexia, & Fatigue
Module 7: Anxiety, Agitation and Delirium
in the Hospice Population
Module 8: Nausea
- Assessment & Management
Module 9: Dementia - Assessment & Management of Behavioral
Symptoms
Series
Objectives and Statement of Educational Need
Please click here to view the series
objectives and the statement of educational need for this series.
Post-test Answers
Click here
to view the answer pages.
© Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine
2006.
Reproduction of these materials is permitted only for non-profit educational
purposes and must include this statement.
Special
thanks are given to VistaCare, which has provided commercial
support for this endeavor, in the form of an unrestricted grant. Click here
for more information regarding this support and for formal
disclosures. Click for
more information about
VistaCare.
