Explore key ethical challenges in emergency and acute care, including consent, capacity, end-of-life decisions, and resource allocation. Our posts provide practical insights into applying ethical principles in real-world clinical practice.
It’s been a while since we published our last ‘Ethical Dilemmas’ post at St. Emlyn’s. Hopefully you’ve already seen the other posts in this series but, if not, you should […]
Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine 4: The ethics of triage Read More
If you haven’t been following this series, you can also find part 1 and part 2 on the blog. Part 3: Primum, non nocere When I was a green young
Here in Virchester we believe that families are important. Natalie has written before about the benefits of family presence during paediatric resuscitation and it’s pretty much standard practice in both
JC: Family presence for Brain Death Evaluation. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Last week we published our first ‘Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine’ post, complete with a hypothetical scenario that hopefully got you thinking! I was quite humbled by the quality of
Ethical dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 2 Read More
Emergency Medicine is a specialty that you may not think involves a lot of ethical dilemmas. The obvious issues like abortion, euthanasia and reproductive ethics affect other people. However,
Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine Part 1 Read More
