Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Palliative Care - a Joint #gyncsm and #hpm chat

This month we were pleased to offer a joint chat with #hpm (Hospice and Palliative Medicine). They also hold a chat the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 9pm. The topic for the chat was Palliative Care. We were joined by Dr. Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair) a palliative and hospice medical care physician, editor at Pallimed and #hpm founder; as well as others from the #hpm community.

During the chat we welcomed 55 participants, posted 488 tweets and made 1,631,071 impressions.
The transcript can be found here and the analytics here.

Here are the topic questions and a sampling of the responses:
T1: What does the term "palliative care" mean to you? How do you think palliative care differs from hospice?
T2A: Have you discussed palliative care with your doctor? Who brought it up? How did it make you feel?
T2B: When in the patient's treatment do they tend to get referred to a palliative care specialist? When is ideal?
T3: Are there medical / insurance requirements to obtaining palliative care?
T4: What do you wish you would have known about palliative care? Doc's: What do you wish your patients knew?


T5: For those with experience with palliative care, what were the positives / negatives? 

Remember you can continue our discussion on SmartPatients. (http://gyncsm.blogspot.com/2014/10/continuing-our-chats-more-than-140.html)

We look forward to you joining us next month 9pm EST on July 8, 2015 to discuss Dealing With Anxiety.

Dee
Co-moderator #gyncsm


RESOURCES:

SGO article Comprehensive Care in Gynecologic oncology: The importance of Palliative Care

Palliative Care Fact Sheet from the NCI (@NCI).

Cancer.Net (@cancerdotnet).
http://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/how-cancer-treated/palliative-care/caring-symptoms-cancer-and-its-treatment

Canadian Virtual Hospice
Main site:     http://www.virtualhospice.ca/en_US/Main+Site+Navigation/Home.aspx
10 myths about Palliative Care : http://virtualhospice.ca/en_US/Main+Site+Navigation/Home/Topics/Topics/What+Is+Palliative+Care_/10+Myths+about+Palliative+Care.aspx

Pallimed
pallimed.org

Get Palliative Care
http://getpalliativecare.org/whatis/disease-types/ovariancancer/

Sarcoma Alliance 
http://sarcomaalliance.org/what-you-need-to-know/end-of-life-issues/ 

Palliative Doctors American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
http://palliativedoctors.org/faq

Medline plus Palliative site

U-tube Palliative Care: YOU Are a BRIDGE 

Friday, June 5, 2015

June 10th Chat - Palliative Care (A Joint Chat with #hpm )


Graphic by Christian Sinclair

This month on June 10th (9pm EST) we will be discussing Palliative Care. We are so happy to be hosting a joint chat with the #hpm (Hospice and Palliative Medicine) community. The #hpm chat founder, Christian Sinclair (@hpmchat / @ctsinclair) a palliative care and hospice medical doctor at the University of Kansas Medical Center and editor at Pallimed will be joining us. We also will welcome #hpm moderators Ashley and Niamh.

Our discussion will be guided by the following questions:

T1: What does the term "palliative care" mean to you? How do you think palliative care differs from hospice?
T2A: Have you discussed palliative care with your doctor? Who brought it up? How did it make you feel?
T2B: When in the patient's treatment do they tend to get referred to a palliative care specialist? When is ideal?
T3: Are there medical / insurance requirements to obtaining palliative care?
T4: What do you wish you would have known about palliative care? Doc's: What do you wish your patients knew?
T5: For those with experience with palliative care, what were the positives / negatives?

To prepare for the chat you may read this palliative care fact sheet from the NCI (@NCI).

Also this article from Cancer.Net (@cancerdotnet).

And this journal article Comprehensive Care in Gynecologic oncology: The importance of Palliative Care

Remember if you want to learn more about how to participate in tweet chats you can read this blog post. For this joint chat, include both #gyncsm and #hpm in your tweets.

We look forward to having you join our discussion or come and "lurk and learn".
Questions? Contact us at gyncsm@gmail.com.

Dee
#gyncsm co-founder and co-moderator