Learn About Palliative Medicine and COVID-19 on Webcast

OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 Learn About Palliative Medicine and COVID-19 on Webcast. On this CME webcast, we’re going to be discussing how to care for patients with advanced lung disease at the end of life. And we’re going to be focusing on how these same palliative care principles can be applied to patients with COVID-19. Joining our moderator on the webcast from the Ohio State University Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, is Clinical Instructor in Internal Medicine Dr. Jennica Johns.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DESCRIBE advanced care planning for patients with advanced lung disease as well as others in the setting of COVID-19; and IDENTIFY basic tools for symptomatic treatment of patients with advanced lung disease.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Advanced care planning for patients with COVID-19
  • Palliation of dyspnea in COVID-19
  • Managing opioid side effects

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

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