Ethics
The Ethics section is led by Victoria Metaxa.
Ethics News
RESOURCES
Explore the ESICM storytelling for actionable strategies to implement the 3R (Recognise, Reverse, Resilience) approach and combat burnout. Together, We Are Intensive Care!
Education
Courses
Clinical Ethics and End-of-Life Care
Format: Virtual
Dates: 7-8 November, 2024
End-of-Life Care requires specific knowledge and expertise – and probably also a particular temperament.
Join our e-master class and learn how to assess the severity of illness and prognosis, to consider relevant ethical, legal, religious, cultural issues, to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and medical staff and minimize their distress, to boost team-working, to make clear decisions in accordance with the patients’ wishes.
Webinars
Free live webinars are available for members & non members on the ESICM Media Library.
Research
Projects
Ethicus II
End-of-life practices in intensive care units around the world. This multicentre study will allow us to observe and describe actual end of life practices in ICUs in several countries.
We aim to determine their overall incidence, document variations in the pattern of practice and analyse similarities and differences in terms of variables that might explain the findings.
Surveys
Antibiotic Resistance and End-of-Life care
Investigation of a possible correlation between end-of-life care and the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in intensive care patients.
Results:
End-of-life treatment and bacterial antibiotic resistance: a potential association.
Relevant Literature
- Metaxa V. et al. Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients
- Metaxa V. et al. Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients – a systematic review protocol
- Mark J. Peters et al. The intensive care medicine clinical research agenda in paediatrics
- Hans Flaatten et al. The status of intensive care medicine research and a future agenda for very old patients in the ICU
- Rosemond C. et al. How Family Members Perceive Goals for Dying Nursing Home Residents
Article Reviews
- Improving decision-making with family members of nursing home residents
- Dementia is a common disease in old age and most of the patients with late-stage dementia both reside and die in nursing homes.
- Burnout Syndrome in Critical Care: A Call for Action
- Burnout syndrome is triggered by a discrepancy between the expectations and ideals of the employee and the actual requirements of his position.
- Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: Examining the socioeconomic factors
- Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: Is there global variability?