Abstract
Through a focus on one child's extended stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, I raise four general questions about pediatric medicine: How should physicians communicate with parents of very sick children? How should physicians involve parents of very sick children in treatment decisions? How should care be coordinated when a child is being treated by different medical teams with rotating personnel? Should the guidelines for making judgments of medical futility and discontinuation of treatment differ when the patient is a child rather than an adult?
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 262-275 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Mortality |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2005 |
Keywords
- End-of-life decisions
- Informed consent
- Parental permission
- Pediatric intensive care units
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Religious studies
- Philosophy
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