In the course of your career, you will come across Palliative care emergencies. In most of the episodes we are looking at where it might be less appropriate to take patients to hospital and keeping patients at home is the appropriate and essential decision for all concerned.

In certain cases, the family and patient may be urging you to keep them at home but there are instances where it is more appropriate to take them to hospital as you may well be adding life to days when days cannot be added to life.

We look at:

• JR Calc metastatic spinal cord compression
• Neutropenic sepsis
• Catastrophic bleeds
• Superior venacava compression
• Hypercalcaemia

Rob Whelan Paramedic

A paramedic since 2012 and working as a community specialist paramedic for 3 years. Rob has a parti ...