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This podcast will discuss the clinical challenges associated with the treatment of thrombosis in patients with advanced illness and review the risk of bleeding in the patient with chronic serious illness requiring anticoagulant therapy.

The goal of this podcast is to discuss best practices in opioid therapy for pain in those with serious illness, with a focus on managing the risk of substance abuse.

The purpose of this podcast is to provide an update about the clinical services and regulations that govern the federal and state hospice benefit.

The goal of this podcast is to describe the elements of goal setting discussions and provide a framework for improving the ability of clinicians to engage in these discussions with seriously ill patients and their families.

This podcast will address some of the particularities and challenges of HIV/AIDS.

This podcast will introduce Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), a novel, existentially oriented psychotherapy which focuses on sustaining and enhancing meaning in advanced cancer patients.

This podcast will provide a brief overview of the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF); discuss prognostication of CHF patients; and advanced heart failure treatment options including Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices, Cardiac Inotrope Therapy, and mechanical circulatory support (Left Ventricular Assist Device).

The purpose of this podcast is to discuss the assessment, management, and prognostication of patients with advanced COPD.

The purpose of this podcast is to enhance knowledge of the management of behavioral symptoms in dementia.

This podcast will address the complexity of prognostication in chronic advanced illness and cancer.

The goal of the podcast is to discuss care options available in the US including hospice and palliative care and how they are implemented.

This podcast reviews the use of medical marijuana in symptom care--particularly in pain, nausea, and anorexia.

This podcast aims to improve clinicians' knowledge of research practices, enhancing their ability to participate in research and to critically evaluate the research literature in palliative care.

This podcast reviews the guidelines and recommendations for the safe use of methadone for chronic pain, including how to avoid risks related to overdose and cardiac arrhythmias.

The purpose of this podcast is to explore how the treatment of lung cancer can affect quality of life.