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Headlines, Hopes, and Hardships: Building Prognostic Awareness in Families Affected by HIE
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ICNC2024
Symposia: Understanding Prognosis In Neonates With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Headlines, Hopes, and Hardships: Building Prognostic Awareness in Families Affected by HIE
Lauren Treat
Communicating medical information and expert opinion in a culturally-sensitive manner is a core task of high-quality health care. This information exchange is particularly important after a child has sustained hypoxic ischemic brain injury, as family members are often faced with decision making tasks and look to their medical team for balanced information about possible outcomes. In this talk, a child neurologist who is dual-trained in pediatric palliative medicine will highlight the uniqueness of parental decision making as well as severe acute brain injury as compared to other types of serious illness in order to frame effective communication strategies. The concept of prognostic awareness with be explored alongside tools to help clinicians communicate their own assessments and build prognostic awareness in families over time.
Learning objectives:
• Acknowledge unique factors that require tailored communication strategies for discussing prognosis in children with HIE
• Assess prognostic awareness in families of children with HIE and recognize opportunities to affect the way families build prognostic awareness over time
• Identify concrete communication strategies for incorporation into clinical practice
Dr. Lauren Treat is a child neurologist who has special training in caring for individuals with life-limiting and life-altering diseases. Her focus is on helping individuals with serious illness live as well as possible for as long as possible.
Other Lectures in this symposium
HIE as a Cause of Cerebral Palsy in Low and High Resource Settings
HIE prognosis: can we predict using early neurological examination and blood-based biomarkers?
How advanced technologies can inform HIE prognosis: EEG, MRI, and advanced prediction modeling.
HIE as a Cause of Cerebral Palsy in Low and High Resource Settings