Palliative Care for Trauma Patients is a TCAA course created from a previous live webinar in which Dr. Cook reveals the benefits of primary palliative care as an integrated part of trauma care, the different models to incorporate into your trauma program, and provides communication tools needed to provide palliative care. Estimated completion time: 60 minutes Target Audience: The Trauma healthcare team and other clinical departments Learning Objectives At the conclusion of this course, the learner should be better able to:
1. Describe the difference between primary and secondary palliative care and the benefits of primary palliative care as an integrated part of trauma care. 2. Describe three models of palliative care integration into trauma care and list pros/cons for each approach in their own institution3. Describe the best case / worst case communication tool and be able to analyze and apply the supportive literature for this communication tool.
Faculty Presenter: Mackenzie Cook Moderator: Laura GaminoFaculty Bio:
Dr. Cook was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in a small town in Connecticut. He attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and then spent a year backpacking and skiing in Utah before attending medical school at Duke University in Durham, NC. He spent his dedicated research year in medical school at the University of Wisconsin in the endocrine surgery lab as a Howard Hughes medical scholar. He then headed west for residency at OHSU, graduating in 2016 from the general surgery residency program. Following residency, Dr. Cook completed a surgical critical care fellowship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA in 2017. Dr. Cook lives in Portland with his wife, Crystal, their three kids and two rambunctious dogs. Avid hikers, skiers and climbers, the Cook family is happy to call Portland home.