Palliative Care Work Group
Mission
To promote delivery of timely, high quality primary and specialty palliative care by supporting training for cardiovascular clinicians, education for persons with heart disease, and research to inform care decisions.
Educational Resources
Palliative Care for the Cardiovascular Clinician
A series of 20+ hours of CE modules developed by the Palliative Care Workgroup to provide clinicians caring for patients with serious cardiovascular disease with primary palliative skills in symptom management, high-risk procedures and device therapies, and serious illness conversation skills. Available for free for ACC members and non-members.
Pinnacle Advance Care Planning Toolkit
A toolkit developed for cardiovascular clinicians to understand, document, and integrate advance care planning into their routine practice.
CardiaCast Palliative Care in Patients with Heart Disease
A series of four podcasts developed in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Team Section.
- CardiaCast Podcast: Palliative Care for End-Stage Heart Failure
- CardiaCast Podcast: Palliative Care: Serious Conversations in the Critical Care Trenches
- CardiaCast Podcast: Palliative Care: High-Risk Procedures in our High-Risk Patients
- CardiaCast Podcast: Palliative Care: Training Trainees in Skilled Communication
From Prognosis to Priorities: Insights on Outpatient Palliative Cardiology, A Webinar
An engaging discussion on how outpatient palliative cardiology supports vulnerable patients by alleviating distressing symptoms and planning for what lies ahead, a presentation of the Work Group's Outpatient Palliative Cardiology Collaborative.
Recent Workgroup Publications
- Palliative Care Education in Pediatric Cardiology Fellowships: A Survey of Program Directors
- Identifying Palliative Care Competencies for Cardiology Fellowship Training: A National Delphi Consensus Study
- JACC Advances Podcast: PC Competencies for Cardiology Fellowship Training
- Design, Creation, and 13-Month Performance of a Novel, Web-Based Activity for Education in Primary Palliative Care
Other Resources
- Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus Based Recommendations from HFSA
- Palliative Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement from AHA
- Palliative Care Across the Spectrum of Heart Failure
- Expanding the Paradigm for Cardiovascular Palliative Care
Resources for Patient Education
