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Ethics roundtable debate: child with severe brain damage and an underlying brain tumour
Scott Gunn1, Satoru Hashimoto, Michael Karakozov
1Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Critical Care (London, England)
|August 18, 2004
Abstract:
A young person presents with a highly malignant brain tumour with hemiparesis and limited prognosis after resection. She then suffers an iatrogenic cardiac and respiratory arrest that results in profound anoxic encephalopathy. A difference in opinion between the treatment team and the parent is based on a question of futile therapy. Opinions from five intensivists from around the world explore the differences in ethical and legal issues. A Physician-ethicist comments on the various approaches.