Providing Perinatal Palliative Care with Compassion, Care & Confidence
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Stager Conference Center
Lancaster General Hopsital
555 North Duke Street
Lancaster, PA 17604
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Date: April 30, 2009
Time: 7:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Stager Conference Center
Lancaster General Hopsital
555 North Duke Street
Lancaster, PA 17604
Non-LG Participant Cost: $50 for each session
Target Audience: OB/GYN physicians, Pediatricians and Family & Community Medicine Physicians, Nursing, Certified Nurse Midwives, Social workers and Chaplains.
Includes:
Objectives:
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Apply feasible measures to improve care for dying newborns, infants and children and their families.
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Identify the major domains of palliative care.
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Recognize the pressing needs for inutero terminally ill infants & families.
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Describe the mechanisms for implementation of "Perinatal hospice".
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Create a "perinatal hospice" within your own health care system.
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Outline the general hospice concepts.
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Recognize the need for Perinatal hospice and palliative care support.
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Discuss prenatal decision-making and with continuing a pregnancy despite a terminal prenatal diagnosis.
Course Guide
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30 minutes Registration/Dinner
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15 minutes Welcome and Introductions
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60 minutes Byron Calhoun, MD
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10 minutes Questions
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60 minutes Brian Carter, MD
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10 minutes Questions
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15 minutes Break
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60 minutes Amy Kuebelbeck
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10 minutes Questions
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30 minutes Panel Discussion
Confirmed Speakers:
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Brian Scott Carter, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Training: Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (National Faculty), AMA, Chicago. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
(National Faculty), Education Development Center Boston. Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
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Byron C. Calhoun, M.D., FACOG, FACS, MBA,Board Certified OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine. Areas of interest: High-risk obstetrics, prenatal diagnosis, ultrasound, medical complications of pregnancy.
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Amy Kuebelbeck, MA, Describes her experience of continuing a pregnancy with a terminal prenatal diagnosis in her memoir; Waiting with Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life. Ms. Kuebelbeck edits the Web site PerinatalHospice.org. She is currently coauthoring a new book about continuing a pregnancy with a terminal prenatal diagnosis, forthcoming
Materials
Registration
For additional information, please contact:
Kristy Askey
KLAskey@LancasterGeneral.org
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME ).Lancaster General Hospital is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement: The Lancaster General Hospital designates this education activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.
Conflict of Interest Statement: Faculty and all others who have the ability to control content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by Lancaster General Hospital are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).
The Institute for Professional Development of Lancaster General is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Attendance to the entire event is required to obtain contact hours (no partial credit awarded). Please contact Lou Ann Fromuth @ 717-544-5039 for additional information.