Pediatric Palliative Care and End-of-Life Treatment

Pediatric Palliative Care and End-of-Life Treatment is organized by Boston Children's Hospital.

Release Date: 06/28/2024
Expiration Date: 05/02/2027

Description:
The Pediatric Palliative Care and End-of-Life Treatment course is designed to provide information to practitioners who treat pediatric patients in the primary care with a subspecialty setting about palliative care for pediatric patients. The course content covers palliative care delivered by designated healthcare teams, primary palliative care delivery, end-of-life symptom treatment and orders for life-sustaining therapies.

Learning Objectives: 
At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

• Describe the differences between primary and subspecialty palliative care and how they complement one another.
• Describe the potential limitations of end-of-life decisions.
• Review how to identify patient wishes related to comfort, support, and remembrance at the end-of-life by family and friends
• Identify routine health care interactions as an opportunity for long-term goals discussion.
• Clarify the family’s understanding of the patient’s illness, identify worries and fears and discuss trade-offs between clinical choices including conditions that would be desirable or unacceptable. 
• Conduct a complete pain assessment appropriate for the age of the child.
• Describe the neurobiological mechanisms of normal pain perception.
• Describe the clinical implications of the neurobiological mechanisms of pain perception for treating and preventing pain.
• Design a pain treatment strategy for a child at the end-of-life.
• Describe the different palliative care outcomes.
• Identify concerns regarding current state of advance care planning (ACP) for children with life-threatening diseases.
• Describe the barriers to the use of MOLST.