End of Life/Palliative Care Fast Facts from EPERC

EPERC: End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center offers Fast Facts and Concepts, concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing life-limiting illnesses.

Fast Facts are designed to be easily accessible and clinically relevant monographs on palliative care topics. They are intended to be quick teaching tools for bedside rounds, as well as self-study material for health care professional trainees and clinicians who work with patients with life-limiting illnesses.

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# 229 Seizure Management in the Dying Patient

This Fast Fact reviews management strategies for seizures near the end of life.

# 228 Tapentadol

Tapentadol is a novel analgesic, with a 50 mg dose similar in efficacy to 10 mg of oxycodone.

# 227 The Family Meeting: End of Life Goal Setting and Future Planning

This Fast Fact discusses an approach to goal setting when the expected length of life is short.

# 226 Helping Surrogates Make Decisions

This Fast Fact reviews an approach to help surrogates through the decision process when patients cannot participate in decision-making themselves.

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