Creating Synergy: Early Integration of Palliative Care with Complex Surgical Care (PA)

This session has been identified and designated as Credit to Address Regulatory Mandate for Palliative Care.

Session Description

Early integration of palliative care is associated with improved quality of life, reduced costs, and longer survival in patients with advanced cancer and chronic progressive disease. Core principles include: management of symptoms and suffering, building personal resilience, discussions of patients’ goals of care, and training in advanced communication skills. How this may apply to complex surgical patients with more acute problems and during discrete episodes of care has yet to be defined. This panel includes established and emerging evidence for initiatives that upstream palliative care into surgical populations: screening and early intervention in surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients, decision making that balances expectations about preand postoperative risks for complex elective surgery, and transitional models of care in advanced cancer when new treatments make outcomes uncertain.

Course Outline

  • Introduction
    Alexandra M. Easson, MD, FACS, Toronto, ON
  • Palliative Care in Trauma: The First 48 Hours
    Herb A. Phelan, MD, MSCS, FACS, Dallas, TX
  • High-Risk Surgery: Preoperative Decision Making
    Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, FACS, Madison, WI
  • Determining Goals of Care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
    Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS, Newark, NJ
  • Early Integration of Palliative Care in Complex Surgical Oncology
    Phillippa Hawley, BMed, FRCPC, Vancouver, BC

Target Audience

  • Practicing surgeons
  • Residents

Learning Objectives

  • Apply new knowledge and ideas to improve their surgical practice
  • Adapt concepts and quality measures in support of research advancements
  • Enhance the quality of patient care

Contact

  • For questions about the course content, please contact elearning@facs.org.
  • If you have any technical questions, contact learning@facs.org.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Certificate of Completion
  • 1.50 Self Assessment Credit
Course opens: 
10/05/2018
Course expires: 
01/31/2020

Disclosure Information

In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. For additional information, please visit the ACCME website: http://www.accme.org/requirements/accreditation-requirements-cme-providers/policies-and-definitions/financial-relationships-and-conflicts-interest

The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity.  Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during a activity, please report it on the evaluation. 

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Faculty and Disclosures

Alexandra M. Easson, MD, FACS, Toronto, ON - No Disclosures
Herb A. Phelan, MD, MSCS, FACS, Dallas, TX - No Disclosures
Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, FACS, Madison, WI - No Disclosures
Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS, Newark, NJ - No Disclosures
Phillippa Hawley, BMed, FRCPC, Vancouver, BC - Shares in NexPep

Program Committee and Disclosures

CHAIR: Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), Miami, FL - No Disclosures
VICE-CHAIR: David T. Cooke, MD, FACS, Sacramento, CA - No Disclosures

Members

David C. Borgstrom, MD, FACS, Morgantown, WV - No Disclosures
Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS, San Antonio, TX - No Disclosures
Roger R. Dmochowski, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN - Allergen: Honoraria: Consultant
Audra A. Duncan, MD, FACS, London, ON - No Disclosures
Mariam F. Eskander, MD, Boston, MA - No Disclosures
Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS, Richmond, VA - No Disclosures
Neil H. Hyman, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL - No Disclosures
Martin S. Karpeh, Jr., MD, FACS, New York, NY - No Disclosures
Dennis H. Kraus, MD, FACS, New York, NY - No Disclosures
Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN - No Disclosures
David A. Spain, MD, FACS, Stanford, CA - No Disclosures

Ex-Officios

Mary T. Hawn, MD, FACS, Stanford, CA - No Disclosures
Daniel M. Herron, MD, FACS, FASBMS, New York, NY - No Disclosures

Consultants

Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, FRCS(Hon), Houston, TX - No Disclosures
Quan-Yang Duh, MD, FACS, San Francisco, CA - No Disclosures
B. J. Hancock, MD, FACS, FRCSC, Winnipeg, MB - No Disclosures
Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), Seattle, WA - No Disclosures
Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, New York, NY - No Disclosures

 

Continuing Medical Education Credit Information

Accreditation

The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The American College of Surgeons designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 1.5 credits meets the requirements for Self-Assessment.

American College of Surgeons and ACGME Logos

Note: Residents will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Certificate of Completion
  • 1.50 Self Assessment Credit
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