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Medical Ethics Advisor

October 1, 2018

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Growing Evidence That Surrogate Decision-makers Need Help

Surrogates reported better-quality communication with a family support intervention, found a recent study.

Ethics of Industry-Neurosurgeon Relationships

Conflicts of interest are inherent to surgical innovation and can be handled in an ethically sound manner, concluded a recent literature review.

Informed Consent Challenges When Subject Is in ICU

ICU patients frequently lack capacity to provide informed consent for clinical research due to multiple factors. However, the presence of one or more of these characteristics does not automatically designate a potential subject as lacking capacity to provide his or her own informed consent.

Ethics Needs of Pediatric EDs More Prevalent

Ethical challenges in pediatric EDs are more prevalent than in adult EDs, found a recent study. Researchers also found that nurses voice specific moral distress issues that are different than adult EDs.

Orientation for Ethics Consultants? Some Have None at All

Institutions should re-evaluate their orientation practices for ethics committee members that perform ethics consultations, suggests recent research.

Ethics Guidance on Reproductive Issues in Cancer Patients

Multiple ethical issues related to reproduction in the context of cancer are addressed in an updated position statement from The American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s Ethics Committee.

Patients With Language Barriers Less Likely to Limit Life Support and Change Code to DNR

Decisions regarding life support, code status, and advance directives are different for patients with limited English proficiency in the ICU compared with patients whose primary language was English, found a recent study.

Surge in Ethics Consults Outside ICU Setting

Ethicists at Springfield, IL-based Memorial Medical Center have been seeing increased volume of consults for some time. Recently, they have noticed many are occurring outside of the ICU setting.

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