Delirium in Specialist Palliative Care Webinar – palliativecarehubprofessional.com

Delirium in Specialist Palliative Care Webinar

Introduction:

Dr Regina McQuillan, Palliative Medicine Consultant, St Francis Hospice delivered the webinar and as part of the session Dr McQuillan discussed:

Definition of delirium
Incidence of delirium in people with life limiting illness
Causes and treatment of delirium – what is the underlying cause and can this be treated effectively before the person dies
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to support
Delirium Screening Tool – 4AT

The event was attended by 151 participants which included health and social care professional and researchers.

Please click on link to view a PDF of the slides (Link)

To view an infographic of the webinars evaluation, click on the following link (Link)

Macmillan Cancer Support Delirium eLearning Module (not available in the Republic of Ireland)

In order to access the programme, register for a free account on the Macmillan Learning Hub by clicking on this link Learning and development (macmillan.org.uk)

The Delirium Module can they be accessed by clicking on this Link

This module is one of many contained in the enhanced palliative and end of life care learning and development toolkit can be accessed on this Link