Ethics Rounds : a Casebook in Pediatric Bioethics.

Intro -- Introduction -- End-of-Life Decisions -- Introduction | End-of-Life Decisions -- A Premature Infant With Necrotizing Enterocolitis Whose Parents Are Jehovah's Witnesses -- A Saudi Family Making End-of-Life Decisions in the PICU -- Symbolic Resuscitation, Medical Futility, and Parental Rights -- Palliative Sedation With Propofol for an Adolescent With a DNR Order -- Parental Refusal of a Liver Transplant for a Child With Biliary Atresia -- When Life-Sustaining Treatment Is Withdrawn and the Patient Doesn't Die -- Is Treatment Futile for an Extremely Premature Infant With Giant Omphalocele? -- Cross-Cultural Differences in Communication About a Dying Child -- Are We Allowed to Discontinue Medical Treatment in This Child? -- Two Infants, Same Prognosis, Different Parental Preferences -- Different Philosophies -- Introduction | When Doctors and Parents Have Different Philosophies -- A 6-Month-Old With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents -- Should Pediatric Practices HavePolicies to Not Care for ChildrenWith Vaccine-Hesitant Parents? -- When Parents Refuse a Septic Workup for a Newborn -- Should All Deaf Children Learn Sign Language? -- Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment? -- Genomics -- Introduction | Ethical Issues in Genomics -- Genomic Contraindications for Heart Transplantation -- Please Test My Child for a Cancer Gene, but Don't Tell Her -- Testing Children for Adult-Onset Genetic Diseases -- Severe Disability -- Introduction | Ethical Issues Surrounding Permanent Severe Disability in Childhood -- Mechanical Ventilation for a Child With Quadriplegia -- An Infant With Trisomy 18 and a Ventricular Septal Defect -- A Baby With Meningococcemia and Septic Shock -- Research Ethics -- Introduction | Research Ethics.

Should an IRB Approve a Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial of Analgesia for Procedural Pain in Neonates? -- When Is Waiver of Consent Appropriate in a Neonatal Clinical Trial? -- Risks in a Trial of an Innovative Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy -- Randomized n-of-1 Trials: Quality Improvement, Research, or Both? -- Law and Health Policy -- Introduction | Issues in Law and Health Policy -- Can a Patient Designate His Doctor as His Proxy Decision Maker? -- Who Should Get the Last PICU Bed? -- Was Sarah Murnaghan Treated Justly? -- Should We Tell Parents When We've Made an Error? -- When a Surgical Colleague Makes an Error -- The Dilemma of Predicting Violent Radicalization.

Pediatric medical ethics are very different from any other clinical setting. This collection presents possible cases and scenarios to help caregivers be better-prepared for complicated ethical questions.

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