UnfilterED #13: Dr. Nadia Tremonti

<p>This week’s episode features a fascinating conversation with Dr. Nadia Tremonti, medical director for the pediatric palliative care program at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. Dr. Tremonti was the featured physician in an independent short film <em>Palliative</em> and subsequent New York Times shorter excerpt <em>Dying in your Mother’s Arms</em> that explore her work with terminally ill pediatric patients. From conversations of religion’s role in processing disease to the physician’s role in alleviating suffering for patients and their families, Nick and Nadia explore the existential ground in this thought-provoking segment. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Time Stamps</strong></p> <p>00:47 Introductions</p> <p>3:50 How patients led her to pursue palliative care</p> <p>14:32 Dr. Tremonti’s approach to palliative care</p> <p>21:42 Understanding patients’ and family’s language to guide counseling</p> <p>31:38 Most frequent anxieties and fears of families of pediatric palliative care patients</p> <p>37:21 How emergent interventions can shift burden of decision to continue life-sustaining measures to families</p> <p>47:45 Navigating existential questions of life or death with patients and their families</p> <p>55:38 Saddest part of palliative care</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Emergency Medical Minute is excited to announce that we are now offering</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AMA PRA Category 1 credits™</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">via online course modules. To access these and for more information, visit our website at</span> <a href= "http://www.emergencymedicalminute.com/cme-courses"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.emergencymedicalminute.com/cme-courses/</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and create an account. </span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=6bIZ91UwjZALMiRLAEcQYYPHyLILwbivQwgtGl3JzaB6oGAQK1B2nrGSGvrS-g7zJApXzVlWIO-lmLfB"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Donate to EMM today!</span></a></p>