Ethical Considerations for Life-sustaining Treatments

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Overview

Ethical Considerations for

Life-sustaining Treatments

 

 

The Main Learning Objectives

To identify life-sustaining treatments for cardiac, pulmonary, hematological, renal, and nutritional systems

To define what is meant by withholding, withdrawing, and foregoing treatment

To discuss the elements of a trial of therapy & to describe how a trial of therapy relates to goals of care

To describe the factors that a surrogate decision-maker should consider when evaluating whether to pursue a treatment

To specify the meaning of "Do Not Attempt Resuscitation" (DNAR) & to describe three ways to consider survival after CPR

To list the resuscitation factors that affect prognosis of CPR & to describe communication strategies to initiate an informed decision-making process for CPR

To provide a rationale for revisiting resuscitation decisions as a patient's condition changes

 

Methods of Education to Achieve the Objectives

Every video has specific objectives to be achieved

Initially , participant will have  pre-test as a part of assessment steps

Participant will watch videos accompanied by  images, pdf files , figures or diagrams. At the end , participant must pass post-test to get certification of completion. Participant must follow the learning path in the platform

 

Evaluation of Scientific Activity by the Participants

By evaluation form after completing course , it will be send to participants. It is an important to know that it will be mandatory to get certification

 

Speaker

Dr. Mark Hughes Mark

MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Medical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Course Policy

This course will be valid for 6 months after subscription date

The subscription will not be refundable for any reason

The course content was reviewed by scientific committee

There is no CME Hours for this kind of teaching content

The course content was designed for pre graduate and recent graduate