Palliative Care Guidance & Consults
Sarasota Memorial's Palliative Medicine team provides an extra layer of support for seriously ill patients and their families during a hospital stay. Our palliative care team works with each patient's primary care physicians and other healthcare providers to help address pain, anxiety, weight loss and other symptoms. Palliative care is not just for Hospice patients; it can help patients of any age, at any stage of their illness, and can be provided together with curative treatment. Our team's expertise in making prognoses can help physicians develop a comprehensive care plan, and it can help patients and their families prepare for the future. For consults, call (941) 917-7572.
Physician Resources
As a member of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Sarasota Memorial, along with FPG physicians, iCare providers and our staff, have access to the tools, training and technical assistance offered by CAPC for frontline clinicians. You can access all of these tools and resources at www.capc.org.
Among other materials, CAPC Central provides access to:
- Highly interactive Pain Management and Communication Skills online training
- Webinars and Virtual Office Hours with CAPC faculty
- Moderated Discussion Forums
- Over 400 additional tools
- ‘How To Use CAPC Central’ video to use CAPC Central
If you need CAPC log-in assistance, please email james-grimes@smh.com.
Additional Tools & Reference
Educational Tools
Professional Organizations
Articles
- Dying In America – Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life, National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine
- 5 Things – Choosing Wisely, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- End-of-Life Care: Guidelines for Patient-Centered Communication, American Academy of Family Physicians series
- Applying Motivational Interviewing Techniques to Palliative Care Communication, Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs, American Medical Association
- Cost Savings from Palliative Care Teams and Guidance for a Financially Viable Palliative Care Program, Health Research and Educational Trust
- Expanding Palliative Medicine across Care Settings: One Health System Experience, Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer, New England Journal of Medicine
- Center to Advance Palliative Care Palliative Care Clinical Care and Customer Satisfaction Metrics Consensus Recommendations, Journal of Palliative Medicine
- The Growth of Palliative Care in U.S. Hospitals: A Status Report, Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients — An Urgent Priority, New England Journal of Medicine
Books
- On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler Ross
- Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
- Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to End of Life Care, Jessica Nutik Zitter
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe
- Being With Dying, Roshi Joan Halifax
- Final Gifts, Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
- Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
- Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Illness, 6th Ed. Hank Dunn
- Handbook for Mortals Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness, Joanne Lynn, MD and Joan Harrold, MD
- Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
- Living Well and Dying Faithfully, John Swinton & Richard Payne;
- Controversies in the Determination of Death, A White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics, December 2008.
- How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, Sherwin B. Nuland
- Dying Well and Midwife through the Dying Process, Ira Byock, MD
- The Book of Joy, a Conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu & His Holiness the Dali Lama
Videos and Television