Caring for patients with delirium at the end of their life
Delirium is common in the last weeks or days of life. It can be distressing for patients and those around them. A clinical update explains why successful management involves excluding reversible causes of delirium and balancing drugs that may provoke or maintain delirium while appreciating that most patients want to retain clear cognition at the end of life.
Kate Adlington, clinical editor at The BMJ, is joined by the authors of the paper - Christian Hosker, consultant liaison psychiatrist at Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust, and Michael Bennett, professor of palliative medicine at the University of Leeds.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 14, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Caring for patients with delirium at the end of their life
Delirium is common in the last weeks or days of life. It can be distressing for patients and those around them. A clinical update explains why successful management involves excluding reversible causes of delirium and balancing drugs that may provoke or maintain delirium while appreciating that most patients want to retain clear cognition at the end of life.
Kate Adlington, clinical editor at The BMJ, is joined by the authors of the paper - Christian Hosker, consultant liaison psychiatrist at Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust, and Michael Bennett, professor of palliative medicine at the University of Leeds.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 14, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Information is key: why patients need to be empowered to learn about their disease
At the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), held in Valencia, Spain, John Murray, a Nurse Clinician at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 05/27/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - May 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Bone marrow transplant consent: insight into patient motivations
At the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), held in Valencia, Spain, John Murray, a Nurse Clinician at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 05/05/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - May 5, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Good nursing care is the key to veno-occlusive disease (VOD) management
At the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), held in Valencia, Spain, John Murray, a Nurse Clinician at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 04/26/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 26, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
How to reduce anxiety levels in patients undergoing bone marrow biopsy
At the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), held in Valencia, Spain, John Murray, a Nurse Clinician at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 04/20/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Nursing bone marrow biopsy
John Murray, Nurse Clinician at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK, gives an overview of when patients receive a bone marrow biopsy and what the experience is like for them. He also des...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 04/13/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 13, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Overview of Phase 3 clinical trial UKALL14 for ALL
David Marks, MD, PhD, from the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK, provides an overview of the randomized Phase 3 clinical trial UKALL14 for adult acute lymphocytic leukemi...
Author: VJHemOnc
Added: 04/13/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 13, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
”It’s the workforce, stupid” - is the NHS workforce in crisis?
As the junior doctors in England strike, concerns for the workforce are foremost in the minds of those running the NHS.
A summary is available here: http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1510
In The BMJ roundtable, recorded at the Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit on Friday 4 March 2016, we asked our participants if they think the NHS is in crisis, and what they think can be done to help those working across the system.
The participants were Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Samantha Barrell, chief executive at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Candace Imison, director of poli...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 9, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Zika Virus - "it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body"
“Juliet”, a woman living in London, was diagnosed with a mysterious illness in November 2015, Ian Cropley, a consultant in infectious disease from The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, was there to investigate.
In this podcast, we find out how Zika, once a little known virus causing a rash and fever, has subsequently become a global health... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Zika virus - "it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body"
“Juliet”, a woman living in London, was diagnosed with a mysterious illness in November 2015, Ian Cropley, a consultant in infectious disease from The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, was there to investigate.
In this podcast, we find out how Zika, once a little known virus causing a ras h and fever, has subsequently become a global health... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 26, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Zika virus - "it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body"
“Juliet”, a woman living in London, was diagnosed with a mysterious illness in November 2015, Ian Cropley, a consultant in infectious disease from The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, was there to investigate.
In this podcast, we find out how Zika, once a little known virus causing a ras h and fever, has subsequently become a global health emergency. We also discuss how the infection is linked to microcephaly, and what we still need to understand to control the disease.All Zika virus resources from BMJ are now freely available on www.bmj.com/freezikaresources. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 26, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Zika virus - ”it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body”
“Juliet”, a woman living in London, was diagnosed with a mysterious illness in November 2015, Ian Cropley, a consultant in infectious disease from The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, was there to investigate.
In this podcast, we find out how Zika, once a little known virus causing a rash and fever, has subsequently become a global health emergency. We also discuss how the infection is linked to microcephaly, and what we still need to understand to control the disease.
All Zika virus resources from BMJ are now freely available on www.bmj.com/freezikaresources. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 26, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Helping patients help themselves
At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Margaret Oakes, Specialist Counselling Psychologist at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Bracknell, UK, and Kevi...
Author: PatientPowerEU
Added: 01/14/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - January 14, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
