Brain Death & Futility at ICCEC

I blogged about the upcoming ICCEC this weekend.  Here are a few sessions that caught my eye.



Panel - Comparing Israeli and American Experiences: Families’ requests for continued physiologic support of patients deemed dead by neurological criteria -- 

Anne Lederman Flamm, Jonathan Cohen



Do Everything!” – New aspects of a never-ending story -- Kurt W Schmidt



Decision-Making for the Unbefriended Patient: A model approach facilitated by the Ethics Consult Service -- Joan Henriksen Hellyer



Physician Attitudes Toward Proactive, Triggered (Unsolicited) Clinical Ethics Consultation for the Unrepresented Patient -- Barrie J. Huberman



Panel - Worse than Futile: Medically non-beneficial treatment in the setting of complicated grief --  Annette Mendola, Vicki Cannington, Lynnette Osterlund, Caroline Vogel



The deployment of law in the clinical setting: Strategies for hospital ethics committees to address concerns surrounding clinician citation of the law -- Anya Prince