Pediatric Palliative Care: Treating the Whole Infant, Child, or Teen

Speaker

Jennifer Kett

Description

Jennifer Kett, MD - Pediatric Palliative Care: Treating the Whole Infant, Child, or Teen. Kett specializes in complex critical care, working as part of an interdisciplinary team at Mary Bridge Hospital in Tacoma that provides family-centered care for children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses. She will address the special challenges of working with critically ill children and youth.

Objectives:

• Use cases to more deeply investigate the unique challenges faced in pediatric palliative care (medically, ethically, legally and socially)
• Outline as a group an approach to managing some of these challenges
• Describe the ways interdisciplinary team members are critical to overcoming some of these challenges
• Discuss systems-issues that can be barriers to success

Document Type

PowerPoint Presentation

Start Date

17-5-2019 9:30 AM

End Date

17-5-2019 10:30 AM

Location

Settlemyer Hall, Bellingham Technical College

Genre/Form

lectures

Program

Palliative Care: Treating the Whole Person

Subjects – Topical (LCSH)

Palliative treatment; Critically ill children

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Keywords

Pediatric palliative care, Critically ill children