Lecture 4 Palliative Care

Question 1

Define palliative care

Answer 1

• to improve QOL for patients+families facing life threatening illness
• prevention and relief of suffering
• assessing, ID’ing, and treating pain and other issues - physical, psychosocial, spiritual

Question 2

What roles do physios in palliative care have?

Answer 2

• Sx management (pain, breathlessness, fatigue)
• rehab/reconditioning
• lymphedema mx
• education of family + carers

Question 3

5 ways to avoid burnout

Answer 3

1. Manage your stress
2. Take a break from technology
3. Nourish creative side
4. Healthy eating, sleeping, exercising habits
5. Set boundaries

Question 4

Challenges faced by physios in palliative care

Answer 4

1. Knowing when to regress an ex or give them a break
2. Knowing when to intervene and how
3. Managing carers
4. Accepting that most pt’s will die