Kidney Supportive Care Symposia

2023: Symposium

Saturday 18 November 2023

• Pain (Dr Sara Rendo) 
• Taste changes (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Advance Care Planning (Dr Andrew Jeyaruban)
• Upper GIT symptoms (Dr Clare Jones)
• Uraemic Pruritus, Restless Legs Syndrome (RSL), Fatigue (Dr Gowri Raman)

2019: PROGRAM
Nephrology: Ethics, Law and Moral Distress

Thursday 1 August 2019

• Symptom Management (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Symptom Management – Taste (Dr Frank Brennan)

Friday 2 August 2019

• Moral Distress in Nephrology (Dr Kathryn DuCharlet)
• Moral Distress – Expert commentary (Dr Christine Sanderson)
• Law & Medicine. Informed consent and dialysis withdrawal (Prof Cameron Stewart)
• Ethics: Withholding and Withdrawal (Dr Linda Sheahan)
• Self-Care in Moral Distress (Hannah Burgess) Plus: Reflective Practice Tool for Moral Distress

2018: PROGRAM
Comprehensive Conservative Care for patients with Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease

Thursday 5 July 2018

• Setting the scene – The modern era of conservative care (Prof Mark Brown – Nephrologist)
• Shared Decision Making – Initiation and Withdrawal of Dialysis (Dr John Obeid – Geriatrician and Dr Linda Sheahan – Palliative Care Physician)
• Communication – (Gowri Raman- Palliative Care Physician, Amy Waters- Palliative Care Physician, Linda Magann- Palliative Care CNC)
• Interventions to delay progression of kidney disease and minimize risk of adverse events or complications (A/Prof Ivor Katz – Nephrologist)
• Health Literacy – (Jessica Stevenson – Dietitian)
• Advance Care Planning within conservative care (Dr Frank Brennan – Palliative Care Physician)
• Cultural and Spiritual Domains of Care (Mary Ashton – Pastoral Care)

Friday 6 July 2018

• Symptom Management – Non-malignant pain (Dr Anica Vasic – Pain Medicine Physician and Dr Peter Langron – Anaesthetic / Pain Registrar)
• Conservative Management and Psychiatric Care (Dr Kirsty Morris – Psychiatrist)
• Symptom Management (Dr Frank Brennan – Palliative Care Physician)
• Management of Nutrition Impact Symptoms (Ann-Marie Randall (Dietitian)
• Interface of Renal Supportive Care, Palliative Care and Geriatrics (Alison Smyth – RSC CNC, Dr Aneesha Gill – Aged Care Consultant, Joshua Cohen – Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner)
• Care of the dying in end stage kidney disease (Elizabeth Josland – RSC CNC)
• Development, Implementation & Evaluation of a Peer Support Group for Renal Supportive Care Patients (Jackie Taylor – Social Worker)

2017: PROGRAM Day 1, PROGRAM Day 2
Psycho-social Dimensions of End Stage Kidney Disease

Thursday 10 August 2017

• Communication Survey
• Discussions with renal Patients and families around deteriorating renal function (Dr Kelly Li – Nephrologist)
• Experiences of a dialysis patient and carer
• Experiences of a non-dialysis patient and carer
• Anxiety and depression in CKD (A/Prof Sam Harvey – Psychiatrist)
• Cognitive impairment in ESRD: A review of the literarature and relevant instruments (Dr Balaji Hiremagalur – Nephrologist)
• Cognitive impairment in ESRD: Study of dialysis patients and cognitive impairement (Dr Elaine Kwan – Psychiatrist) – (Presentation not available)
• Communication Skills in Advance Care Planning (Kelly Li, Amy Waters, Linda Magann)
• Bereavement Best practice:Evidence and communication (Dr Michael Noel – Palliative Care Physician and Hannah Burgess – RSC Social Worker)
• Communication Survey results
• Recommended reading list

Friday 11 August 2017

• New developments in Renal Supportive Care and Research (Prof Mark Brown – Nephrologist)
• Renal Supportive Care Nursing: Escalating Patient and Carer needs towards end of life (Elizabeth Josland – RSC CNC)
• Renal Supportive Care Nurtitional Guidelines (Jessica Stevenson – RSC Dietitian)
• Symptom Management in ESKD (Dr Frank Brennan – Palliative Care Physician)
• Cardio-Renal: Medical Management in Renal Supportive Care (Dr Kelly Li – Nephrologist)
• Who manages the Heart Failure Patient with Renal Failure (Janet Newton – Heart Failure Nurse Practitioner)
• Holisitc Care of Aboriginal patients with CKD: A rural perspective (Jodie Slack-Smith – Renal NUM)
• Evaluation of the Implementation of a novel integrated Kidney Supportive Care Program -Qld Experience (Prof Ann Bonner- Prof of Nursing)
• Psychosocial issues and impacts in Renal Supportive Care using iPOS-Renal (Hannah Burgess – RSC Social Worker)

2016: PROGRAM Day 1, PROGRAM Day 2
RSC – An Evidence Based Symposium

Friday 29 July 2016

• Articles spoken about in the symposium:
  • Pathophysiology of Pruritus, Pain in CKD, An approach to Pain Management in ESKD
• New developments in Renal Supportive Care (Prof Mark Brown – Nephrologist)
• Nursing role:  Incorporating Renal Supportive Care as part of normal clinical practice (Elizabeth Josland – CNC)
• The experience of patients and carers on a conservative renal pathway (Dr Shelley Tranter) – presentation not available
• Digging deeper when stretched thin: delivering renal supportive services with limited resources (Dr Rajesh Raj – Nephrologist)
• Malnutrition in advanced CKD (Jessica Stevenson – dietitian)
• iPOS tool emotional outcomes in renal supportive care (Hannah Burgess – social worker)
• ‘Who holds the can? The optimal setting for Advance Care Planning and difficult conversations around end of life’ (Dr Joel Rhee) – presentation will not be available.
• Ambulance Care Plan (Michelle Shiel (Manager Low Acuity Care NSW Ambulance Service)
• Dilemma of Consent for Renal Replacement Therapy (Prof Mark Brown on behalf of Dr Marina Wainstein) – unpublished data, presentation unavailable

Pain Management in ESKD – An Evidence Based Symposium

Saturday 30 July 2016

• Introduction (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Pharmacology in the context of ESKD (Olly Zekry and Dr Maria Ciglioni) – presentation not available
• Evidence based management of pain secondary to musculoskeletal disease in the general population and in patients with ESKD Includes discussion of pain secondary to osteoarthritis, rotator cuff syndrome/ supraspinatus tendinitis, gouty arthropathy (Prof Allan Sturgess)
• Evidence based management of painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy in the general population and in patients with ESKD (Dr Peter Cox)
• Evidence based management of pain in syndromes experienced by patients with ESKD: polycystic kidney disease; intradialytic headaches; carpal tunnel;      calciphylaxis;  PVD.  (Dr Anica Vasic   /   Dr Frank Brennan)
• Psychology of pain and its management in the general population and patients with End Stage Kidney Disease (Prof Michael Nicholas)
• Evidence based management of cancer pain in the general population and in patients with ESKD (Associate Prof Melanie Lovell) – presentation unavailable

2015: PROGRAM Day 1

Friday 21 August 2015

• Research Findings and what is new (Prof Mark Brown)
• Nursing role in Renal Supportive Care. How far have we come and where to from here?  (Elizabeth Josland )
• The Role of the Social Worker in Renal Supportive Care (Jane Waters)
• Dietary Management of the Renal Supportive Care patient (Jessica Stevenson)
• Management of Complex Pain in ESKD (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Synopsis of paper “Update on End-of-Life Care Training During Nephrology Fellowship: A Cross-sectional National Survey of Fellows” (Dr Sara Combs)
• Advance Care Planning in CKD – results of recent research (A/Prof Josephine Clayton)
• The role of the social worker in consent to treatment (Hannah Burgess)
• An overview of Renal Supportive care in WA – the developments and challenges (Dr Brian Siva)

2015: PROGRAM Day 2: Supportive Care Master Class

Saturday 22 August 2015

• Opening address – Prof Mark Brown
• “Setting the Scene” An introduction to the concept of Renal Supportive Care – Dr Frank Brennan & Dr Kelly Li
• The issues in decision making for patients with ESKD in the commencement of either dialysis or a conservative, non-dialytic pathway- Dr Celine Foote
• Symptom Management in ESKD-Part 1 – Dr Frank Brennan
• Anxiety and Depression – Dr Kirsty Morris
• Advance Care Planning in patients with ESKD – Dr Liz Stallworthy
• Indigenous issues – Dr Cherian Sajiv
• The care of the dying patient with ESKD – Dr Katalin Urban 

2014: PROGRAM

Friday 1 August

• Opening address (Prof Mark Brown) unable to place presentation on the web
• What’s New in Renal Supportive Care (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Nursing Management in Renal Supportive Care – The St George Experience (Elizabeth Josland)
• Renal Supportive Care in Rural and Remote areas of Australia (Sam Harrington)
• Providing support for nephrologists (Dr Anthoulla Mohamudally)
• An exploratory study to identify the clinical course and a group of symptoms that relate to withdrawal from haemodialysis in three tertiary hospitals in South Australia (Dr Nina Vogel)
• Management of complex Symptomatology in ESKD – clinical case studies (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Treatment decision making – patient and physician perspectives (Dr Celine Foote) unable to place presentation on the web
• Patient Journeys (Dr Kelly Li and Panel: Dr Brennan, Dr Stallworthy, Prof Brown)

2013: PROGRAM

Friday 9 August 2013

• Opening address (Prof Mark Brown)
• Dialysis in the Elderly (Sarah Derrett and Bronwen McNoe) unable to place presentation on the web
• End of Life care for CKD patients (Linda Magann)
• Renal Supportive Care in the Paediatric Setting (A/Prof Stephen Alexander)
• Difficult Conversations (Dr Amy Waters)
• What’s New in 2013 for RSC – National Guidelines (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Pathogenisis and management of Restless Leg Syndrome in ESKD (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Renal Supportive Care – Nursing Experience and Perspectives (Elizabeth Josland)
• The Impact of Advance Care Planning for Renal Patients (unable to place presentation on web)
• The role of bereavement counselling and memorial services in supporting bereaved carers (verbal presentation only)
• Management of Depression in ESKD (Dr Samuel Harvey) unable to place presentation on the web
• Renal Supportive Care (backup presentation – not presented on day)

2012: PROGRAM

Friday 10 August 2012

• Opening address and achievements so far (Prof Mark Brown)
• Launch of Renal Palliative Care Reader (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Renal Supportive Care – progress towards building networks (Dr Su Crail)
• End of Life Care (Linda Magann)
• Management of Renal Patient Symptoms (Dr Frank Brennan)
• What is Renal Supportive Care? A nurses perspective (Elizabeth Josland)
• Patients who withdraw from dialysis (Dr Kat Urban)
• Renal Memorial Service (Hannah Burgess and Hassan Bazzi. Social Workers)
• The patients perspective on saying ‘No to dialysis’ (Jacqui Moustakas)
• Latest literature update

2011: PROGRAM

Friday 19 August 2011

• Geriatric Nephrology (Dr Amanda Mather)
• End of Life Care (Linda Magann)
• Symptom Management in CKD (Dr Frank Brennan)
• Nutritional Management in Advanced CKD (Maria Chan)

Workshops

• Having Difficult Conversations (Dr Amy Waters)
• Introduction to Renal Supportive Care (Elizabeth Josland and Shelley Tranter)
• Advanced Care Planning (Anastasia Anastasiou)

2010: PROGRAM

Friday 13 August 2010

• Psychosocial Aspects of Renal Disease
• Renal Conservative Care – The Victorian Perspective
• Symptom Management in ESRD
• A New Initiative- A Renal Palliative Care Clinic
• Palliative Care for Renal Clients Living in a Remote Setting
• Renal Palliative Care Medication Guidelines
• Renal Disease: Pathology, trajectory, numbers and treatment options
• The Marriage of Renal and Palliative Care and First Steps and Barriers (combined talks- Dr Frank Brennan)
• Photo Album