Interested in developing you knowledge and skills? This course is ideal for experienced doctors and nurses who are practising in palliative care and end of life care.
Oxford Centre for Education and Research in Palliative Care is delighted to collaborate with Dorothy House Hospice for the second year to bring you this Masterclass.
Topics are selected from the Oxford Advanced Course in Pain and Symptom Management 2024. Updates and new publications in the field are added to the teaching materials. A case based teaching approach is used face to face in the beautiful setting of Dorothy House Hospice.
See the course programme section for a full description of topics and timings.
Taking place on the 5th of March 2025, 09.00-16.30.
Location: Face to face
Educational Credits: 5 CPD points TBC (application in progress)
+ Venue
Strathcarron Hospice, Fankerton, Scotland
+ Course Programmes
09.00 - Coffee and registration
09:15 - Welcome and Introduction
09:25 - End of life care for patients with Parkinson’s disease (Dr Mary Miller)
Caring for patients as they lose their oral route – goals of care, medications to use and those to avoid.
Thinking ahead and use of Rotigotine patches. Do you always need them?
10:10 - Hydration at the end of life (Dr Mary Miller)
Language used to discuss diminishing drinking, mouth care and hydration.
What does the evidence tell us and what is on the horizon?
10:40 - Coffee Break
11:10 - Benzodiazepines: an update (Dr Mary Miller)
Are these the best medications for the management of anxiety and delirium at the end of life?
Are there other options when consciousness is a priority?
11:45 - Annual Strathcarron lecture (Dr Sally Boa)
12:45 - Lunch
13:45 - Breathlessness (Dr Mary Miller)
Look at the evidence – do opioids and Mirtazapine work in the management of breathlessness?
What else can we use?
14:30 - Break
14:45 - The care of children when their important adult is dying (Dr Jeff Hanna)
Thinking of future generations, looking for the children in the family and supporting their important adults to have important conversations.
16.15 - Final remarks
16:30 - Close of day
+ Course Aims
Knowledge to inform your practice
Resources from which to continue learning and adapt that learning in practice
A means of ensuring your practice compares with ‘good practice’, benchmarking against your peers
Stimulation, time for thinking and reflection
