Poster abstracts of the month: April

Poster abstracts of the month: April

The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exihibition of 64 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, this blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:

• How well did we palliate breathlessness in those dying of COVID-19?
• Improving Anticipatory Care Planning on a general medical ward
• Improving venous thromboembolism and steroid prescribing at an inpatient hospice unit: A quality improvement project
• Indictors of quality at end of life: A regional project spanning hospice, hospital and community specialist palliative care services in Lanarkshire
• Keeping connected through creative arts
• Leading Anticipatory Care Planning that includes cardio-pulmonary resuscitation decisions and discussions with patients and families: An advanced practice role for nurses and physiotherapists
• Living and dying - Class in a bag
• Making waves to keep patients at home: Establishment of a domiciliary ultrasound service for palliative care patients