Allowing Natural Death in EMS

Recorded Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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Webinar Description

The EMS system was designed to reduce death and disability. In contrast, Palliative care and Hospice focus on symptom control and maximizing quality of life. We explore how EMS can leverage the POLST for medical interventions and transportation decisions and how to improve care for patients and families with serious illness, near the end of life.

About the Presenters

Amelia Breyre

Amelia Breyre

Emergency Medicine and EMS Physician

Amelia Breyre is an Emergency Medicine and EMS Physician. She completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University in New York, a Fulbright Student Scholarship in the Philippines and her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She completed her Emergency Medicine training at Highland Hospital in Oakland and then pursued an EMS fellowship at UCSF. She will be joining the Yale Emergency Medicine faculty later this summer. She has a particular research and professional interest in improving end of life care in the out of hospital setting and has published several articles and presented nationally on the topic.
Kenneth Hanson

Kenneth Hanson

Emergency Medicine Physician

Ken Hanson is currently practicing as an Emergency Medicine Physician at a teaching hospital in Michigan. He also supports an EMS Fellowship. He attended Albion College for Undergraduate education and then spent a year on an academic fellowship in a PhD program at Wayne State University studying Immunology. He transitioned to medicine and after completing medical school at Michigan State University in the Health Professions Scholarship Program he entered military service with the U.S. Navy. He completed a transition Internship at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and then attended the Naval Undersea Medical Institute and the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center as part of training for an assignment as an Undersea Medical Officer. After completing his active-duty service in the submarine force, he completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. He joined the Air National Guard and has done multiple deployments as a Flight Surgeon and Critical Care Air Transport Physician. After attending the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago and completing a Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics he then pursued training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine having just finished this year. His current professional interests includes Aerospace Medicine, Wilderness Medicine and end-of-life care and how EM and EMS care for this patient population.

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