Should families be offered the chance to be present during brain-death evaluation? This 2013 journal club examines a small randomised study of understanding and psychological wellbeing, while considering participation, loss to follow-up and questions about families’ and clinicians’ experiences that the trial could not resolve.
The second instalment of this ethics series revisits a fictional rescue dilemma through the trolley problem and the four pillars of medical ethics. It explores intentions, consequences, action and omission, and asks why apparently similar choices can provoke very different moral judgements.
The opening instalment of an emergency medicine ethics series presents a deliberately extreme, fictional rescue dilemma. It asks readers to weigh saving several lives against actively causing one death, using the thought experiment to begin a wider discussion about the ethics behind clinical decisions.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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