This package describes up-to-date information about the integration of specialist palliative care into the management of patients with congestive heart failure and COPD. It includes a topic focused on the challenging issues surrounding the use of cardiac devices in the population with advanced heart failure.

Palliative care addresses the suffering and illness burden experienced by all types of patients with serious chronic illness and their families. Although many best practices are common across diagnoses, there are important differences as well, which must be understood to properly address the key drivers of distress and burden. These differences are the focus of these webinars.

To manage patients with long-term opioid therapy, clinicians require the skills necessary to optimize analgesic outcomes, minimize side effects and toxicities, and assess and manage the risk of abuse-related outcomes. This package of three webinars provides information about the evidence base and best practices relevant to each of these areas.

Free Palliative Care Podcasts Available on PodBean and on iTunes