Do Everything, Responding to Requests for Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatments

Authors

Douglas White

Files

Publication Date

4-10-2018

Keywords

ethics, potentially inappropriate treatment, guidelines

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics

Abstract

Managing requests for potentially inappropriate treatment is deceptively complex and exposes unanswered questions about the boundaries of good medical practice in patients with advanced illness. This talk summarizes released guidelines from five major US and European critical care societies on how to respond to such requests and how to proceed in the face of intractable conflict.

Specialty/Research Institute

Biomedical Ethics

Comments

Goldman-Berland Lectureship in Palliative Medicine