Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1|Describe the need for the development of guidelines to support the use of best practices when approaching patients at the end of life.
2|Apply and Recommend interventions to promote the palliation of symptoms associated with terminal illness.
3|Review the newly developed Baystate Adult Comfort Care Guidelines and discuss how these guidelines should be used in clinical settings.
4|Summarize next steps in education and implementation of the Adult Comfort Care Guidelines across Baystate Health Hospitals.

Presenter(s): 

Erin J. Salvador, MD MS
Palliative Care Physician
Inpatient, Outpatient Oncology
Baystate Franklin Medical Center

Emily Zametkin, MBBS HMDC
Baystate Hospice Medical Director and Palliative Care Physician
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School - Baystate

Yael Tarshish, MD
Chief, Palliative Care
Baystate Medical Practices