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Ethical Considerations in End-of-Life Care with Dr. Robert Truog

OPENPediatrics via YouTube

Overview

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This course examines ethical considerations in pediatric end-of-life care. It discusses hastening death, terminal extubation, sedation, double effect, medication decisions, titration, and the care of pharmacologically paralyzed children.

Syllabus

Introduction
Should physicians ever hasten death
Dr Truogs personal practice
Terminal extubation
Practice location
Approach to sedation
Double Effect
Problems with Double Effect
Options for Double Effect
No Medication for Dying Child
Tension between titration and presumptive dosing
How do you think about titration
What is your practice
Management of pharmacologically paralyzed children
Guidelines for pharmacologically paralyzed children
Conclusion

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