Palliative Care For Hospital Inpatients: A Geriatrician’s Perspective (17 Feb 2025)
In this episode, Dr Kat Ralston chats with Dr Imogen Smith about palliative care in hospital inpatients.
In this episode, Dr Kat Ralston chats with Dr Imogen Smith about palliative care in hospital inpatients.
They discuss what is different about the older adult when considering palliative care, including thinking about trajectories, communicating uncertainty, and parallel planning. They explore symptom control including a practical approach to syringe drivers (continuous subcutanous infusions) for the non-specialist.
Dr Imogen Smith was appointed as Consultant in General Internal Medicine and Medicine for the Elderly at St John’s Hospital, Livingston, in April 2020. Her clinical interests are in Hospital at Home, and Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care/Palliative Care. She is an educational and clinical supervisor and also clinically supervises and educates Advanced Nurse Practitioners in HBCCC/H@H contexts. During training, she was appointed to the first cohort of NHS Lothian Chief Registrars (2018-2019). And she sat on the RCPE Trainees and Members Committee (2018-2020).
Dr Kat Ralston is a geriatric medicine registrar in Edinburgh. She is also the Education Co-Vice Chair and the joint Podcast Lead for the RCPE Trainee & Members' Committee (T&MC).
Recording date: 20 November 2024
Useful Links
Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
Patterns of Functional Decline at the End of Life
REDMAP Framework for Future Care Planning Conversations
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