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TESTS I WISH YOU HAD NEVER
ORDERED:
A PALLIATIVE CARE PERSPECTIVE MARIANNE M HOLLER, DO FACOI
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
VNA HEALTH GROUP
HOLMDEL, NJ
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OBJECTIVES
TO GUIDE DECISION-MAKING ABOUT PATIENT
CARE BASED ON GOALS
TO ENCOURAGE THOUGHTFUL
CONSIDERATION OF WHAT WE DO “TO”
PATIENTS VS WHAT WE DO “FOR” PATIENTS
TO HELP PRACTITIONERS BECOME
COMFORTABLE WITH UNDERSTANDING THAT
“LESS” CAN BE “MORE” WHEN TREATING
PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED ILLNESSES
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The stories you are about to hear are true
The names and places have been changed to
shield the guilty and protect the innocent
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Here we go
This is the city: Toms River,
NJ
I work here
I carry a badge
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I was working the day shift when the call came in
I was happy that it was late in the day and I would be
going home soon to my happy life just 8 miles from
the scene of the crime. Little did I know…
My partner was off (as partners usually are when
things happen that are not pleasant)
From as near as I could determine it was going to be
an assault case on a frail senior citizen whose family
had been led astray by well-meaning bystanders
I had heard it before, but it didn't make it any easier
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I raced down the
hall
I wanted the facts, just the facts. And
here is what I found…
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Miss Eileen Dover
87 year old female
Dx with met rectal cancer 4 months ago, no surgery
or treatment recommended due to her overall poor
condition
She was bed bound with dementia, required total
care at the time of her cancer diagnosis
She came in from home 2 weeks ago with a
“change in mental status”. She was DNR/DNI. She
was admitted to the hospitalist service and placed
on telemetry
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Miss Eileen Dover
Telemetry you ask? Why telemetry?
(This would be the first of many mis-steps by the
well-meaning bystanders)
She was given 2 liters of fluids and returned to her
baseline (per the family) by the morning
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Miss Eileen Dover
The Hospitalist returned in the am, happy that his
patient had improved. All the work-up was
negative in this frail elderly patient with dementia
and met rectal cancer…except…
Her telemetry…there were pauses overnight on
the monitor (explain to me again why this patient
was on telemetry?)
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Yup that’s what it was
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What should we do
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Eureka!!!
How about if we bypass explaining the situation to
the family, asking for their input and call
Cardiology instead?
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Cardiology consult
Confirms pauses on the monitor. (You know the
monitor that the patient probably should not have
been on in the first place)
Dictates that the gravity of the situation was
explained to the family who did not wish to pursue
a pacemaker
Consult ends with the statement: “I will return
tomorrow to impress on them the need for this
intervention”
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Miss Eileen Dover
Here is she, re-admitted to the hospital with an
infection at the site of her newly placed pacemaker
I am consulted to discussed goals with the family
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Mis-Steps on the Journey
87 yo patient not referred to hospice when she was dx’d with
rectal cancer that could not be treated because she was in
poor condition
Dementia pt admitted with change in mental status.
(Happens everyday)
Pt placed on Telemetry with no clear reason
Pauses noted on monitor and goals were not discussed at
the time of the finding
When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail
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The questions you
must ask yourself
Who is this patient?
What is the goal?
Whose goal is it?
What can I do to achieve the goal?
Am I doing the right thing, at the right
time for this patient?
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Another day, another tragedy
62 year old male
History of inoperable brain tumor
Now bed bound and home on hospice
Caring family at his side day and night
Somehow, inexplicably admitted with hip and wrist
fracture that happened in Radiology Dept of this
hospital
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A Patient with an
inoperable brain
tumor on hospice!
What could possibly go wrong?
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Enter well meaning bystander…
(or a few of them)
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Family calls doctor…
Family states patient has been on hospice now for
2 months
He had always gotten regular Ct Scans to evaluate
the brain tumor
Can he have another Ct Scan to see what is going
on with the tumor?
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Family doctor…
Asks: “Who ordered these Ct
Scans in the past?”
Family says: The oncologist
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Oncologist says:
Sure, no problem!
Hospice RN then arranges ambulance to obtain
the much needed Ct Scan
What could possibly go wrong?
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Just the facts, please
Ambulance brings the patient
to the hospital
While transferring pt from
stretcher to Ct Scan he falls/is
dropped
The patient was taken from
home bed to ambulance
stretcher, lifted to ambulance,
driven to hospital, transferred
to hospital stretcher and then
transferred to Ct Scan table
when the crime occurred
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What was the goal?
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Alternate plan of attack
Family asks for Ct Scan
Goal? We want to know what the brain tumor is doing
Reply: The scan will come out one of three ways…the tumor is better,
worse or the same.
If it is better it does not change the goal which is to keep him home
and comfortable
If it is worse it does not change the goal which is to keep him home
and comfortable
It is the same….well you get the idea
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Same for patients with most advanced
illnesses facing end of life
Pt with advanced renal disease who is not a
candidate for dialysis…should we be checking
CR?
Pt with leukemia: do we continue to check WBC
levels?
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You must always ask what the goal looks like
before you proceed
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Remember
When caring for patients with
advanced illnesses let the
goal guide your testing
It is much easier to give in
sometimes, but you will not
help the patient or the family
that way