Saturday November 11th - Cuisle Beatha 2017

Morning Session:

Session 1: Quality of Life (QoL) care in Dementia: Economics, Ethical End-of-Life (EoL) decisions and Empowerment to deliver Patient/Family place of Care

08.00	-	08.50	Registration, NUI Galway
			Opportunity to Visit Exhibition Stands and View Posters.
08.50	-	09.00	Welcome Address
			Prof. Dympna Waldron, NUIGalway, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, GUH - RCH - RHCT.

Co-chairs			Prof. Martin O'Donnell, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, GUH
			& Professor of Translational Medicine at NUI Galway & Associate
			Director of the HRB Clinical Research Facility Galway.
			Dr. Camilla Murtgagh Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Galway Hospice
			and Home Care Team (GHCT) Portiuncula.

09.00	-	09.30	End stage dementia and palliative care.
			Dr. Sharon Beatty, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, UHG & Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe.
09.30	-	10.00	Economics, resource allocation and ageing.
			Prof. Eamon O'Shea, Personal Professor, Centre for Economic & Social Research on
			Dementia NUI Galway.
10.00	-	10.15	Supporting people with Dementia to die at home in Ireland
			Ms. Marie Lynch, Head of Healthcare Programmes, Irish Hospice Foundation.
10.15	-	10.25	Disturbing and distressing - the tasks and dilemmas associated with end-of-life care
			Dr. Hannah Linane, SpR, Palliative Medicine Marymount Hospice Cork.
10.25	-	10.45	Capacity - the new legal approach in Ireland to be implemented
			Dr. Shaun O'Keeffe, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine Galway University Hospitals (GUH)
			& Merlin Park Hospital (MPH) & Clinical Lecturer, NUI Galway.
10.45	-	11.00	Tea/Coffee
			Opportunity to Visit Exhibition Stands and View Posters.

Session 2: Let's Define Quality of Life First then lets critic the literature research results to date

Co-chairs			Ms. Patricia O'Brien, Oncology Support Nurse, Cancer Care West.
			Dr. David O'Gorman, Consultant Specialist in Pain, Galway University Hospital (GUH)

11.00	-	11.40	Medicinal cannabis use in Ireland - where are we going?
			Prof. Tony O'Brien, Marymount University Hospital & Hospice, Cork University
			Hospital & College of Medicine & Health, University College Cork.
11.40	-	11.50	Quality of life measurement as a clinical tool
			Dr. Veronica McInerney, Early Phase & Cell Therapy Clinical Manager, Clinical Research
			Facility, NUI Galway.
11.50	-	12.00	Quality of life & symptoms in a cardiac rehabilitation population
			Ms. Emily Basquelle, Health Promotion Practitioner.
12.00	-	12.20	Depression in palliative care patients - the use of judgement analysis to identify
			those who need treatment as advanced malignancy would carry with it many
			symptoms associated normally with endogenous depression
			Dr. Anne Doherty, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Galway University Hospital (GUH).
12.20	-	12.40	A continuum of care - ‘preparedness for death' and other opportunities
			for bereavement care
			Ms. Orla Keegan, Head of Education, Research & Bereavement Services, Irish Hospice
			Foundation, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
12.40	-	13.00	Palliation presence in A/E; The Impact
			Dr. Eoin Tiernan, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Dublin.
13.00	-	13.30	Panel Discussion: Debate to the floor on the late morning session
13.30	-	14.30	Lunch

Session 3: Let's Lead the way for New Research for GI Dysmotility

Co-chairs			Dr Robert Rutherford, Consultant Respiratory Physician, GUH.
			Dr Dan Murphy, GP, Galway

14.30	-	15.00	Opioid induced bowel function. Pathogenesis and treatment.
			Prof. Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, Professor (Chair) and Chief Physician, Mech-Sense & Centre
			for Pancreatic Diseases, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Aalborg University
			Hospital, Denmark.
15.00	-	15.15	A Patient's case where use of Somatostatin Analogues has empowered the patient to
			stay in the community for years without hospital admission for aspiration pneumonia
			Dr. Adrian Carney, General Practitioner, Galway City.
15.15	-	15.35	Extraordinary outcomes with Somatostatin Analogues in recurrent pneumonia:
			A Case Presentation
			Dr. Ruth Waldron Clinical Microbiology SpR, GUH.
15.35	-	15.50	Coffee Break

Session 4:

Co-Chairs			Mr. Myles Joyce, Colorectal Surgeon, UHG.
			Mr. David Waldron, Consultant Surgeon, Limerick General Hospital.

15.50	-	16.00	Case series of patients with extrapyramidal side effects from antiemetics
			Dr. Hayatul Nawwar Miptah, Clinical Tutor in Medicine, GUH.
16.00	-	16.10	Use of venting PEGS & Prolonging morbidity from 1 month to 3 months with
			combination use of Somatostatin Analogues
			Ms. Niamh Gantley CNS, GUH.
16.10	-	16.25	ICU acute myopathy in the problems of aspiration pneumonia - complex case
			presentation on a patient who had two cardiac arrests from QT interval prolongation
			Dr. Bairbre McNicholas, Critical Care Fellow, UHG.
16.25	-	16.45	The problem of GI dysmotility & it's complications of aspiration pneumonia reflux
			pain, nausea & vomiting - view on the investigations needed to diagnose
			Dr. Eoin Slattery, Consultant Gastroenterologist, UHG.
16.45	-	17.10	Game of life: nutrition strategies for extra time
			Ms. Ruth Kilcawley, Senior Nutrition Support Dietitian, specialising in Oncology & Haematology, UHG.
17.10	-	17.40	Upper GI Dysmotility & its implications in clinical practise and surgery
			Mr. Chris Collins, Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Portiuncula Hospital
			and Galway University Hospitals.
17.40	-	18.00	Debate; Study proposal from GUH

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