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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We interview Audrey Tan, DO an emergency medicine/palliative medicine clinician, researcher and educator. We discuss processes she has explored in the emergency department which help to identify patients who are likely to benefit from palliative care support and advanced directive guidance.

We interview Kei Ouchi, MD an up and coming researcher in the field of Palliative Medicine/Emergency Medicine Integration. We discuss his journey into EM/Palliative Medicine research as well as his insights into how clinicians can engage patients and their families in critical conversations, in the face of serious illness.