Caring for children with severe neurological impairments presents multiple challenges. As medical technology advances, the choices for clinicians and families grow in complexity. From life-prolonging interventions to deeply personal decisions, tensions and disagreements often arise, with emotions running high. In this episode, we explore the ethical considerations across this high-stakes area of paediatric care and offer a practical toolkit to help clinicians navigate difficult decisions with confidence, compassion and clarity.
Host: Prof John Massie
Guests:
Dr Zoë McCallum, Paediatrician, Department of Neurodevelopment &amp; Disability at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne .
Clinical Associate Professor Giuliana Antolovich, Paediatrician and Clinical Stream Leader, Physical Disability, Neurodevelopment &amp; Disability at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.

Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.