Ethics Section

Hi everyone, I've heard from colleagues who have shared their interest in Ethics and asked about the following:

1) Ongoing medical futility related project. We have a workgroup currently working on this, and it is in process and not ready for distribution. Once we finalize the writing, it will need to be submitted to Council for review. So I would refer you to the existing SCCM publications and numerous other publications that currently exist in the literature about this topic. It will be a while before our work product is completed!

2) Interest in Ethics. It's great that we have people who are interested, and actively engaged in Ethics at your facilities. 

Best way to get involved: submit a Podcast / Webinar proposal, or share a specific idea for a future Congress session proposal. The forms are accessible via this SCCM website, and if you cannot find it, please post a message here so that SCCM section liaisons can assist. Colette Punda is the Ethics section liaison. 

3) Someone asked about Guidelines and other specific topics such as moral distress. This is the link for SCCM guidelines - https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines   Lots of useful resources here, and if you don't find specific topics, an online search would be best.

4) Someone requested me to email them to provide updates about the Section's work - I unable to respond to each person individually. This is the forum that we will use to share what we are currently planning / working on. We will post something here as soon as we can figure out when to schedule a section-related discussion/meeting. We will meet later this month with section officers and will get official SCCM guidance about Section-related processes.

Please feel free to post here - thank you for your interest and engagement! 

Additional info for those who asked about the "medical futility" topic:

SCCM Publications:

1.      Consensus statement of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Ethics Committee regarding futile and other possibly inadvisable treatments. Crit Care Med. 1997 May;25(5):887-91. doi: 10.1097/00003246-199705000-00028. PMID: 9187612.

2.      Bosslet GT, Pope TM, Rubenfeld GD, Lo B, Truog RD, Rushton CH, Curtis JR, Ford DW, Osborne M, Misak C, Au DH, Azoulay E, Brody B, Fahy BG, Hall JB, Kesecioglu J, Kon AA, Lindell KO, White DB; American Thoracic Society ad hoc Committee on Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment; American Thoracic Society; American Association for Critical Care Nurses; American College of Chest Physicians; European Society for Intensive Care Medicine; Society of Critical Care. An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Jun 1;191(11):1318-30. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201505-0924ST. PMID: 25978438.

3.       Kon AA, Shepard EK, Sederstrom NO, Swoboda SM, Marshall MF, Birriel B, Rincom F. Special Article: Defining Potentially Inappropriate Treatment: A Policy Statement from the SCCM Committee on Ethics. Critical Care Medicine 44(9): 1769-1774. September, 2016. IF 6.312

Hi everyone, I've heard from colleagues who have shared their interest in Ethics and asked about the following:

1) Ongoing medical futility related project. We have a workgroup currently working on this, and it is in process and not ready for distribution. Once we finalize the writing, it will need to be submitted to Council for review. So I would refer you to the existing SCCM publications and numerous other publications that currently exist in the literature about this topic. It will be a while before our work product is completed!

2) Interest in Ethics. It's great that we have people who are interested, and actively engaged in Ethics at your facilities. 

Best way to get involved: submit a Podcast / Webinar proposal, or share a specific idea for a future Congress session proposal. The forms are accessible via this SCCM website, and if you cannot find it, please post a message here so that SCCM section liaisons can assist. Colette Punda is the Ethics section liaison. 

3) Someone asked about Guidelines and other specific topics such as moral distress. This is the link for SCCM guidelines - https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines   Lots of useful resources here, and if you don't find specific topics, an online search would be best.

4) Someone requested me to email them to provide updates about the Section's work - I unable to respond to each person individually. This is the forum that we will use to share what we are currently planning / working on. We will post something here as soon as we can figure out when to schedule a section-related discussion/meeting. We will meet later this month with section officers and will get official SCCM guidance about Section-related processes.

Please feel free to post here - thank you for your interest and engagement! 

Hi everyone, I've heard from colleagues who have shared their interest in Ethics and asked about the following:

1) Ongoing medical futility related project. We have a workgroup currently working on this, and it is in process and not ready for distribution. Once we finalize the writing, it will need to be submitted to Council for review. So I would refer you to the existing SCCM publications and numerous other publications that currently exist in the literature about this topic. It will be a while before our work product is completed!

2) Interest in Ethics. It's great that we have people who are interested, and actively engaged in Ethics at your facilities. 

Best way to get involved: submit a Podcast / Webinar proposal, or share a specific idea for a future Congress session proposal. The forms are accessible via this SCCM website, and if you cannot find it, please post a message here so that SCCM section liaisons can assist. Colette Punda is the Ethics section liaison. 

3) Someone asked about Guidelines and other specific topics such as moral distress. This is the link for SCCM guidelines - https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines   Lots of useful resources here, and if you don't find specific topics, an online search would be best.

4) Someone requested me to email them to provide updates about the Section's work - I unable to respond to each person individually. This is the forum that we will use to share what we are currently planning / working on. We will post something here as soon as we can figure out when to schedule a section-related discussion/meeting. We will meet later this month with section officers and will get official SCCM guidance about Section-related processes.

Please feel free to post here - thank you for your interest and engagement! 

Hello Ethics enthusiasts!

I would love to have folks bounce of initiatives, projects, teaching or educational endeavors here for input from the section.

I have started an Ethics Curriculum for our Anesthesiology residents at BIDMC, Boston and would love to hear more about similar initiatives around the country?

Also attaching a paper I came across in JCRC which is relevant to decision making in the ICU and may be an interwsting read,

Best

Shahla

Hi everyone, I've heard from colleagues who have shared their interest in Ethics and asked about the following:

1) Ongoing medical futility related project. We have a workgroup currently working on this, and it is in process and not ready for distribution. Once we finalize the writing, it will need to be submitted to Council for review. So I would refer you to the existing SCCM publications and numerous other publications that currently exist in the literature about this topic. It will be a while before our work product is completed!

2) Interest in Ethics. It's great that we have people who are interested, and actively engaged in Ethics at your facilities. 

Best way to get involved: submit a Podcast / Webinar proposal, or share a specific idea for a future Congress session proposal. The forms are accessible via this SCCM website, and if you cannot find it, please post a message here so that SCCM section liaisons can assist. Colette Punda is the Ethics section liaison. 

3) Someone asked about Guidelines and other specific topics such as moral distress. This is the link for SCCM guidelines - https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines   Lots of useful resources here, and if you don't find specific topics, an online search would be best.

4) Someone requested me to email them to provide updates about the Section's work - I unable to respond to each person individually. This is the forum that we will use to share what we are currently planning / working on. We will post something here as soon as we can figure out when to schedule a section-related discussion/meeting. We will meet later this month with section officers and will get official SCCM guidance about Section-related processes.

Please feel free to post here - thank you for your interest and engagement! 

Hello Ethics enthusiasts!

I would love to have folks bounce of initiatives, projects, teaching or educational endeavors here for input from the section.

I have started an Ethics Curriculum for our Anesthesiology residents at BIDMC, Boston and would love to hear more about similar initiatives around the country?

Also attaching a paper I came across in JCRC which is relevant to decision making in the ICU and may be an interwsting read,

Best

Shahla

Hi everyone, I've heard from colleagues who have shared their interest in Ethics and asked about the following:

1) Ongoing medical futility related project. We have a workgroup currently working on this, and it is in process and not ready for distribution. Once we finalize the writing, it will need to be submitted to Council for review. So I would refer you to the existing SCCM publications and numerous other publications that currently exist in the literature about this topic. It will be a while before our work product is completed!

2) Interest in Ethics. It's great that we have people who are interested, and actively engaged in Ethics at your facilities. 

Best way to get involved: submit a Podcast / Webinar proposal, or share a specific idea for a future Congress session proposal. The forms are accessible via this SCCM website, and if you cannot find it, please post a message here so that SCCM section liaisons can assist. Colette Punda is the Ethics section liaison. 

3) Someone asked about Guidelines and other specific topics such as moral distress. This is the link for SCCM guidelines - https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines   Lots of useful resources here, and if you don't find specific topics, an online search would be best.

4) Someone requested me to email them to provide updates about the Section's work - I unable to respond to each person individually. This is the forum that we will use to share what we are currently planning / working on. We will post something here as soon as we can figure out when to schedule a section-related discussion/meeting. We will meet later this month with section officers and will get official SCCM guidance about Section-related processes.

Please feel free to post here - thank you for your interest and engagement!