"Do Everything!" Responding to Requests for Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatments
Presenter: Douglas B. White, M.D., MAS Recorded: April 11, 2018 Series: Goldman-Berland Lectureship in Palliative Medicine Managing requests for potentially inappropriate treatment is deceptively complex and exposes unanswered questions about the boundaries of good medical practice in patients with advanced illness. This talk will summarize recently released guidelines from five major US and European critical care societies on how to respond to such requests and how to proceed in the face of intractable conflict.
