Episode 4 - Buddy Marterre, MD, MDiv - Surgical Palliative Care? Navigating Options and Providing Value-Concordant Care in High-Risk Emergency Surgery

The PalliEM Podcast: Episode 7 It’s All About The Ketamine – with Jennifer McEntee MD, MPH, MA.Ed and Daniel Markwalter, MD

In this episode Daniel Markwalter guest interviews Jennifer McEntee, a palliative care physician at UNC Chapel Hill about their use of ketamine for inpatient and outpatient palliative care.  Dr. McEntee provides a thorough review of patients who may benefit from ketamine treatment as well as strategies employed at UNC for IV and oral ketamine dosing.

Episode 6 - Exploring Palliative Care Integration in Community Emergency Medicine - with Suzanne Bigelow, MD

In this episode I meet with Dr. Suzanne Bigelow to discuss her journey into developing her palliative care skills as a practicing emergency physician and how she was able to leverage this knowledge to improve the integration of palliative care at her local emergency department, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett Washington.

Episode 5 - Engaging EMS in Palliative Care Delivery - with Stephen Powell, MD

In this episode, I discuss  with Dr. Stephen Powell how EMS can help to provide acute palliative care interventions.  This is made possible in North Carolina as a result of a statewide EMS protocol that was developed to address the acute needs of palliative care and hospice patients when they or their families call 911.  To learn more about this topic, be sure to check out the additional related materials for the NC EMS Protocol at PalliEM.org [https://palliem.org].

Episode 4 - Buddy Marterre, MD, MDiv - Surgical Palliative Care? Navigating Options and Providing Value-Concordant Care in High-Risk Emergency Surgery

In this episode I meet with Buddy Marterre, a surgical palliative care specialist and educator.   We discuss the nature of high risk emergency surgery and how palliative care principles can inform decisions ahead of varying possible outcomes.

Episode 3 - David Wang, MD - Embedded Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

In this episode I interview Dr. David Wang, system director for palliative care with Scripps Health.  We discuss his journey into palliative care, system considerations in EM/Palliative care integration, and the results of a program he developed incorporating embedded palliative care providers in the Emergency Department.