Critical Care Ethics: A Practice Guide from the ACCM Ethics Committee

In an effort to help with some of the many questions individual practitioners have about ethics issues, the Ethics Committee of the American College of Critical Care Medicine prepared this practical guide, presented in a question and answer format. 

  • The complete guide is available now from the SCCM online product catalog.
  • Individual chapters are published online monthly to help distribute this information as widely as possible. 
  • Future editions will incorporate additional questions, including those suggested by readers.

FUTURE EDITIONS

The practice guide will be updated periodically and additional questions added.  If you have questions about the current guide, or suggestions for additional topics to be addressed, please contact us:

AUTHORS

Editors

Dan R. Thompson, MD, MA, FCCM
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY  USA

Heidi B. Kummer, MD, MPH
Carlisle, MA  USA

Contributors

Daniel A. Beals, MD
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington, KY  USA

Marion Danis, MD
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD  USA

April Howard, RN, CCRN, CCRC
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC  USA

David C. Kaufman, MD, FCCM
University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester, NY  USA

Stanley H. Rosenbaum, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT  USA

Robert D. Truog, MD, FCCM
The Children's Hospital
Boston, MA  USA

Kathryn L. Weise, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH  USA

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