Management of Nausea and Nutrition in Palliative Care (Archived)
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
At the end of this session, students will be
able to: Identify common causes of nausea in the palliative
care population. Identify some methods of treating nausea based
on cause. Identify questions to ask to see if artificial nutrition would be worthwhile for a patient.
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 2 / Part 2
- Indicates most relevant
Tags
Archived
Archived
Basic Sciences
Ethics
Metabolism
Nutrition
Cohort Year
2010
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 2
Part 2
Curriculum Week
Part 2
Discipline
Nutritional Sciences
Palliative care
MCC Presentations
The Dying Patient
Vomiting and/or Nausea
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Anorexia [C23.888.821.108]
Cachexia [C23.888.144.243.963.500.500]
Death [C23.550.260]
Enteral Nutrition [E02.642.500.360]
Malnutrition [C18.654.521]
Nausea [C23.888.821.712]
Nutritional Status [G07.203.650.650]
Palliative Care [E02.760.666]
Parenteral Nutrition [E02.421.505]
Terminal Care [E02.760.905]
Vomiting [C23.888.821.937]