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Demand for Pediatric Ethics Consults Is Increasing

As a long-term member of the ethics committee at Akron Children’s Hospital, Julie M. Aultman, PhD, noticed a shift in the types of consultations in which ethicists were engaged. Consults involved a wide range of issues, from end-of-life care to organizational ethics. Overall, cases were becoming more complex.

Ethical Considerations with After-the-Fact Informed Consent

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are seeking to validate a new technology to isolate and identify bacteria in the bloodstream of very sick patients — something that takes more than 24 hours using traditional blood cultures.

Most ED Patients Overestimate Success of CPR

Emergency physicians routinely need to ask patients about their wishes for care if they go into cardiac arrest.

Moral Distress Common in Pediatric ECMO Cases

At Boston Children’s Hospital, 4.5% of pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cases involved ethics consults, found authors of a recent study.

Ethics Concerns over Undisclosed Conflicts in Psychiatric Guidelines

For six years, Brian J. Piper, PhD, has conducted studies on conflict of interest disclosures in the textbooks used to train physicians, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare providers.

Many Ethical Questions Still Unresolved with Xenotransplantation

A group of experts recently convened to explore ethical and legal issues involved with xenotransplantation and attempted to delineate areas of consensus and areas where there is still controversy.