A Practical Approach to Running a Scarce Resource Allocation Team (SRAT)
Practical guidance on how Scarce Resource Allocation Teams (SRATs) should conduct themselves if hospital resources are overwhelmed.
Tag ethics
Is less best in critical care?
John Myburgh gives a philosophical talk about what life (and death) is really about and what the new challenges are in critical care.
I Don’t Trust Doctors
A growing distrust in doctors presents challenges in the neuroICU. SMACC presentation with Celia Bradford
What is Intensive Care really?
Knowing how to manage dying is just as important as preventing it. - Alex Psirides
Jellybean 103 Butchery and Ethics
@mededgene is a flight paramedic from Vancouver with a soft spot for that soft spot on the front of your neck. You know the one. It has the cricothyroid membrane behind it.
Medical futility
"Futility" means the absence of benefit; a consensus definition of medical futility does not exist; ~80% of ICU patients who die do so as a consequence of a decision to withhold or withdraw life support