Essentials 4 book: Nonpain Symptom Management

Upon completion of this self-study program the learner should be better able to

• recognize the importance of using symptom assessment tools to ensure comprehensive data collection and objective comparison between patient encounters
• assess and provide effective interventions for dyspnea, including
• nonpharmacologic management of dyspnea
• pharmacologic management of dyspnea
• management of pulmonary congestion and secretions
• refractory dyspnea and proportional palliative sedation
• compassionate ventilator withdrawal
• assess and provide effective interventions for dysphagia, including
• nonpharmacologic management of dysphagia
• pharmacologic management of dysphagia
• surgical interventions for irreversible dysphagia
• assess and provide effective interventions for anorexia-cachexia, including
• treating reversible causes of anorexia-cachexia
• pharmacologic management of anorexia-cachexia
• role of artificial nutrition and hydration
• assess and provide effective interventions for fatigue, including
• nonpharmacologic management of fatigue
• pharmacologic management of fatigue
• assess and provide effective interventions for nausea and vomiting, including
• pathophysiology and etiology of nausea and vomiting
• nonpharmacologic management of nausea and vomiting
• pharmacologic management of nausea and vomiting
• alternative routes of medication delivery
• assess and provide effective interventions for malignant bowel obstruction, including
• managing constipation and fecal impaction
• pharmacologic management of malignant bowel obstruction
• procedural interventions for malignant bowel obstruction
• assess and provide effective interventions for delirium, including
• definition of etiology
• reversing treatable causes of delirium
• nonpharmacologic management of delirium
• pharmacologic management of delirium
• assess and provide effective interventions for emergent conditions, including
• airway obstruction
• cardiac tamponade
• massive hemorrhage
• hypercalcemia
• pathologic fracture
• spinal cord compression
• seizures
• superior vena cava syndrome
• urinary retention.
  

Authors:
Jennifer Kapo, MD
Felicia Hui, MD
Ryan Giddings-Connolly, MD
Aleksander Shalshin, MD
Andrew Putnam, MD
Catherine Adams, MD PhD
Rebecca Sands, DO

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