Greater St. Louis HPNA Provisional Group

Minimization of Medications in End-of-Life Care

Mercy Hospital: 4th floor Convent Conference Room
615 S. New Ballas Road
St. Louis, MO 63141

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 6:00pm CT - 8:00pm CT
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615 S. New Ballas Road , St. Louis, MO 63141

Info

Speaker(s)

Mary Mihalyo, PharmD, BCPS, CDE

Attachments
October HPNA (140 KB)
Mercy Map (140 KB)

Additional Information

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Define the following terms: Polypharmacy, Duplicate Therapy and Pill Burden
  2. List rationale for minimization of medication use in end-of-life care
  3. Formulate medication use criteria for select medications
  4. Identify therapeutic alternatives for select medications

As individuals approach the end-of-life they often desire to minimize the use of medications and prescribers are often asked by patients or caregivers to discontinue medications used to manage chronic disease states.  Clinician’s  often struggle with constructing a rationale medical plan to deal with medication use at the end-of-life.  This presentation will address the issues surrounding minimization of medication use in end-of-life care and propose a rationale approach to managing the dilemma of “to continue or to discontinue” select medications in end-of-life care.