The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed ethical tensions as we strive to promote equity in crisis standards of care, navigate shortages of protective equipment, ICU beds, and personnel, balance our own personal safety against our obligation to serve the needs of our communities, and adapt practice and research protocols, responsibly filtering and incorporating the high volume of information on this rapidly evolving topic. These challenges are now familiar to many attendees, but this session will provide an opportunity to learn more about ethical underpinnings and provide a framework to approach this and future public health crises.
CME credits and/or Certificates of Completion are not provided for this session.
1- Apply scarce resource allocation guidelines and principles, and improve understanding of equity in pandemic response
2- More appropriately integrate new research findings in patient care during a rapidly evolving situation, as well as improve understanding of research priorities in a pandemic
3- Better understand moral distress and moral residue when human resources are stretched thin, vital treatment resources and equipment are scarce and family presence is limited
Elizabeth Lee Daugherty, MD, MPH: The Role of Community Engagement in Disaster Resource Allocation Planning
Erin Sullivan DeMartino, MD: Ethically Implementing Crisis Standards of Care
Marianne C. Chaifery, DNP, MS: Prioritizing Our Patients or Our Personal Interests: Ethical Challenges for Health Care Personnel at the Bedside
Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA: COVID and Inequality
Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS: Tragic Tradeoffs in the Quest for Cure
Eric D. McCollum, MD: Pandemic Exacerbated Healthcare Weaknesses
Sarah Beesley, MD, MSc: All Alone Together
David Mcavoy Chooljian, MD, JD: Masking Ordinances and Provider Liability in Crisis Standards of Care: What Physicians Need to Know
Kathleen M. Akgun, MD, MS, ATSF: panel discussion
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