Futility and Moral Distress in Pediatrics; Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatment

 Episode 27: Futility and Moral Distress in Pediatrics

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Futility and Moral Distress in Pediatrics

FACULTY:

Caroline Jones, MD is an assistant professor in the division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. She is currently Medical Director of the PICU and vice chair of the University Health Ethics Committee.

 

OVERVIEW:
Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment talks with Caroline Jones, MD about futility and moral distress in pediatrics.

 

DISCLOSURES:
Caroline Jones, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

 

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION STATEMENTS:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing education for physicians.

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.