Perils and pitfalls of the incapacitated patient Providence Health CareAndi Chatburn, DO, MA
Determining capacity in the acute setting in WA state hospitals vs. determining need for guardianship, presented as a joint venture between Ethics, Risk Management and Psychiatry in Spokane, WA
Ethics at the End of Life and Introduction to Hospice and Palliative Care for Medical Students. Exploration of feeding tubes, code status, when to stop chemo. Discusses cases and the ethical principles and values that are the basis for disagreement in care and what to do when there is a conflict in ethical principles themselves. Also provides an introduction to decisions of last resort including physician aid in dying, palliative sedation and voluntary refusal of nutrition and hydration.
Explores impact of disturbed sleep on symptom management in patients with concurrent serious illness and at the end of life. Presented during Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Kansas 2014