Essential Ethics
Essential Ethics
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respecting families' cultural and religious beliefs and practices - going too far or not far enough?
25 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2020 at 9:45 pm.
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What happens when the medical team and parents have divergent views about the best interests of the infant? Dr Sid Vemuri, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program, and Dr Bennett Sheridan, Paediatric Cardiologist, Cardiac Intensivist, RCH, and Nurse Emelina Finnegan present a case of an infant with an inoperable congenital heart malformation whose life is prolonged by prostin infusion.