Management of Highly Complex Situations in Palliative Care

4 ECTS / Annual / Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students):

Critically review scientific publications that address interventions in patients with highly complex palliative needs.

Generate scientific evidence of intervention in patients with highly complex palliative needs.

Formulate intervention strategies in patients with highly complex palliative needs

Syllabus:

  • Principles of palliative care and management;
  • Criteria for complexity in palliative care;
  • Implications for clinical, research and health policies;
  • Management of pain, dyspnea, nausea and vomiting, constipation, anorexia-cachexia syndrome, delirium;
  • End-of-life nutrition/hydration management and mouth care; Management of malignant wounds, radiodermatitis, fistulas;
  • Emergency management in palliative care;
  • Management of existential suffering;
  • Management of the last hours/days of life;
  • Palliative sedation.