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Pediatric Palliative Care


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Post Re: Continuous Suction at home DeeKarch 2 02/09/2012
I was wondering if anyone has sent a patient home on continuos suction for a repogle? What type of suction machine was the family able to rent?
Post Re: Continuous Suction at home DeeKarch 1 02/08/2012
I was wondering if anyone has sent a patient home on continuos suction for a repogle? What type of suction machine was the family able to rent?
Post Non Accidental Trauma (NAT) Triley 2 02/08/2012
Does your Palliative Care Team provide PPC consultations with famlies with regard to End-of-Life Decision Making in NAT cases? Is this an automatic referral criterion? Who intitiates this referral, PICU, Trauma Team? At what point in the care is this c ...
Post PICU Triggers Triley 3 01/26/2012
At our hospital, we have created algorithms with a couple of our departments to assist staff in determining appropriateness of a palliative care consultation referral. We are considering doing something similar with our PICU team. Besides the wonderful ...
Post 24 Hour Pediatric Palliative Care Triley 2 01/24/2012
Is anyone aware of a 24-hour Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Program that is hospital based (not part of home hospice)? If so, what size is your facility? How many of your consults are received each year during non-business hours? Who responds ...
Post Pediatric Palliative Discharge Criteria BarbZenker 3 11/10/2011
We are working on defining both admission and discharge criteria for pediatric palliative patients in a community based palliative program. We plan to incorporate the Pediatric Palliative Care Referral Criteria created by Dr. Friebert and Dr. Osenga in ...
Post POLST forms Triley 3 02/01/2012
Are any hospital based PPC programs utilizing the POLST form within thier facility or with their palliative care consultations? If so, when the family completes this form are you scanning this documentation within the electronic medical record? Thank ...
Post Palliative Care Room Mardi 2 11/07/2011
We are thinking about designating a room in our hospital for palliative care patients and their families. We would have some nice furnishings and a care basket. If you have such a room, what are the admission criteria for this room? Thanks, Mardi
Post Starting up a palliative care forum in my country SuaveGombwa 2 09/02/2011
I am Palliative care Clinician and it is my first time to be involved in online palliative care forum. I find it so helpful to me and also it will be to other palliative care providers in my country. Anyone with suggestions of how I can go about it? At t ...
Post Joint Commission Certification for Peds Programs sfriebert 1 08/26/2011
Good afternoon everyone! As you are probably aware, the Joint Commission's new Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care is available, starting September 1st. This certification is designed to recognize hospital inpatient programs that demonstra ...
Post Program Details of other PPC programs. Triley 2 08/25/2011
Our PPC program has recently been provided additional FTE’s . Currently we have a 0.5 MD, 0.6 program coordinator and .5 ancillary staff. Several years ago, we attended the CAPC conference; however this was prior to the creation of the PPC option. No ...
Post Neonatal Pallaitive Care Planning DebNicholson 2 08/22/2011
Does anyone have a care plan template that they use for prenatal planning in an probable unviable fetus? Brain stem only fetus.
Post Quality measures for ppc in home program NoahsChildren 2 08/19/2011
I am looking for quality measures for a ppc in home only program and effective ways to measure the indicators. Anyone have any suggestions?
Post Pediatric Ethical Question ultrapollo08 2 08/16/2011
Recently, our facility had a 9 y/o patient who under went spinal surgery for chiari malformation and unfortunatly post-op had spinal cord ischemia and became a quadrapalegic. The family decided they did not want the patient to suffer in quality of life an ...
Post Pediatric Terminal Restlessness BarbZenker 1 04/25/2011
When caring for pediatric patients with classic signs of terminal restlessness in the last day of life, what medications have you tried to help lessen these symptoms (This is assuming all other possible causes for restlessness have been addressed and/or r ...
Post Concurrent Care for Children Requirement bassriley 4 04/24/2011
Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this topic has already been covered. The health reform law has a provision (the Concurrent Care for Children Requirement-CCCR) that mandate that Medicaid or state CHIP programs provide both curative ...
Post ESAS Use with Pediatric Patients BarbZenker 3 01/26/2011
I am wondering if anyone is using the ESAS assessment tool for pediatric patients. If not, what other tools are you using to assess pediatric patient symptoms? Thank you!
Post Pediatric Palliative Care Cost avoidance data EllenHamann 2 12/15/2010
I am wondering if CAPC or anyone else has cost avoidance data for their pediatric program?Cost avoidance per patient. We are a 380 bed regional referral center with NICU/PICU and Pediartic units. Thank you.
Post pediatric hospice criteria sfriebert 2 01/17/2011
Hi Barb, Great question -- and one that many people are asking. The first level of the answer has to do with the fact that the concurrent care legislation doesn't change the eligibility criteria for children in the sense that all hospice eligibility crite ...
Post Pediatric Hospice Criteria BarbZenker 1 11/18/2010
With the recent addition of concurrent care for pediatric patients, I am wondering if anyone has been able to define pediatric hospice criteria for referral similar to the wonderful criteria for referral that Dr. Friebert and Dr. Osenga prepared for pedia ...
Post data analysis of existing programs JessicaFHFC 2 09/08/2010
Hi, I am developing a new hospital based inpatient and outpatient pediatric palliative care program and we are looking for documented pediatric palliative care outcomes regarding costs-savings and length of stay/re-admission rates, etc. to help gain admi ...
Post Keeping Fentanyl Patches in Place BarbZenker 2 09/02/2010
I am interested in learning if anyone has unique strategies they are willing to share on how to keep fentanyl patches in place? Thank you!
Post Team-Care Plan ashukraft 2 05/13/2010
In the audio conference yesterday, Jody Chrastek talked about a team-care plan as part of what Sarah Friebert called the "team covenant". Jody, could you share that plan with the group? I think this is a wonderful idea, and something that our team has b ...
Post Pediatric Palliative Care Referral Criteria PCaines 1 05/12/2010
To view the, "Pediatric Palliative Care Referral Criteria," document created by Dr. Sarah Friebert and Dr. Kaci Osenga as referenced during today's CAPC audio confence go to: http://www.capc.org/tools-for-palliative-care-programs/clinical-tools/consult ...
Post CAPC Pediatric Palliative Care Audio Conference PCaines 1 05/07/2010
Dear Forum Community: For all members of our community interested in the field of Pediatric Palliative Care, I want to inform you of the following upcoming event: CAPC Audio Conference Topic: Pediatric Palliative Care: Challenges and Oppo ...
Post Pediatric Average Length of Stays at End of Life BarbZenker 2 03/17/2010
I am wondering if there are any published metrics for pediatric palliative care programs in general but most specifically average lengths of stays at the end of life. Thank you!
Post Community Based Peds Pal Care Program susanfolk 2 03/17/2010
How many out there have initiated a Community based Pediatric Palliative Care Program? I am working on a research project/quality project for school and work. I am researching the barriers to a rural community based pediatric palliative care program...s ...
Post NICU template Triley 2 03/02/2010
Does anyone have a standard NICU template for EOL or PPC consultations you are willing to share? Currently, our PPC team utilizes the 4 box model DMT (originating from Seattle Childrens) with our pediatric population. However, we have found the DMT too ...
Post Inpatient Palliative Care SOP njjswim 4 08/06/2011
Hi, I am looking to create a standard operating procedures manual for our Pediatric Palliative Care program. Something that puts together a step by step of the tools, templates, consult process, referral criteria etc that is specific to the team so that w ...
Post DNR vs AND NAlcorn 4 02/01/2012
Are any of you at institutions that have changed the term "DNR" to "AND" (Allow Natural Death)? Do you feel the change has been beneficial?
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