Now available to professionals and the public are various resources relevant to critical care ethics:

• End of Life (EOL) decisions are of primary importance to patients, families, and their critical care providers.  The Committee offers a set of resources from the EOL Page on the LearnICU Web site.  
  
• Critical Care Ethics: A Practice Guide is now available in print.  Browse the table of contents, access chapters as PDF files, and submit questions for future revisions of the guide from the dedicated Practice Guide page, download sample chapters from the LearnICU Web site, or order from the SCCM online catalog.
  
• Patient and Family Resources A brochure regarding care at the end of life is available free on the Society's patient and family Web page, MyICUCare. 
  
• End-Of-Life Care Conference  Following the highly successful 2006 EOL Conference, the Society is preparing another for 2007, this time focusing on communications: between patient and caregiver, among the various professionals providing care at the end of life, and more.  Visit the dedicated Web page under the Conferences tab.

David C. Kaufman, MD, FCCM

University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital

Rochester, NY  USA

david_kaufman@urmc.rochester.edu

SCCM Staff
Toya M. Sledd, MPH, MBA
Manager, Professional Affairs
+1 847.827.6866
tsledd@sccm.org 

Mission Statement of the ACCM/SCCM Ethics Committee

"To identify ethical issues which are particularly relevant and important to critical care medicine; develop strategies to recognize a consensus concerning ethical issues in critical care medicine; develop a methodology to disperse knowledge concerning ethical issues to critical care medicine professionals and to implement change; and develop a process of interaction with other organizations that share ethical concerns in critical care areas."

The committee reports to the Chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.