New powerpoint presentations
We are grateful to Dr Oliver for his permission to place two of his presentations from the International Symposium on the MNDcare site. Dr Oliver is a palliative care specialist at the Wisdom Hospice in Rochester, England and Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent. He has been a leading expert in the care of people with MND over many years.
Dr Oliver's papers cover two of the most challenging areas of MND Care:
Management of both these important issues can be confronting to a range of professionals involved in the care of clients with MND and these presentations contain some helpful management strategies.
We also thank Dr Lisa Wolfe, Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Specialist, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, for permission to use her presentation 'Respiratory Update in ALS'.
Follow this link to Dr Wolfe's presentation at the 6th Annual ALS/MND Nursing Mini-Symposium held on 10 December 2010 in conjunction with International Symposium. This talk provides an overview of a comprehensive range of issues involved in managing respiratory difficulties in ALS/MND including:- assessment, dyspnoea rating scale, airways clearance and oral hygiene, NIPPV, strategies for tolerance of masks and guidelines for best-practice.
Updated Cochrane review of enteral feeding in ALS/MND
Katzberg and others 2011- Enteral tube feeding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease.
You will have observed that much of the evidence posted on the MNDcare site involves Cochrane reviews:
What is a Cochrane review?
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, independent, not-for-profit organisation of over 28,000 contributors from more than 100 countries. These contributors work together to produce systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, known as Cochrane reviews, which are published online in The Cochrane Library. Cochrane reviews are intended to help providers, practitioners and patients make informed decisions about health care and are the most comprehensive, reliable and relevant source of evidence on which to base these decisions.
Cochrane Reviews are systematic studies of good quality research, designed to allow conclusions to be made about an effect, lack of effect or adverse effect of a health treatment or intervention.
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