This collection is intended to be a starting point for a discussion on pediatric bioethics and a reference when reflecting on similar cases.
- Introduction
- End-of-Life Decisions
- Introduction | End-of-Life Decisions
- A Premature Infant With Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Whose Parents Are Jehovah’s Witnesses
- A Saudi Family Making End-of-Life Decisions
in the PICU
- Symbolic Resuscitation, Medical Futility, and Parental
Rights
- Palliative Sedation With Propofol for an Adolescent With a DNR Order
- Parental Refusal of a Liver Transplant for a Child With Biliary Atresia
- When Life-Sustaining Treatment Is Withdrawn and the Patient Doesn’t Die
- Is Treatment Futile for an Extremely Premature Infant With Giant Omphalocele?
- Cross-Cultural Differences in
Communication About a Dying Child
- Are We Allowed to Discontinue Medical
Treatment in This Child?
- Two Infants, Same Prognosis, Different Parental Preferences
- Different Philosophies
- Introduction | When Doctors and Parents Have Different Philosophies
- A 6-Month-Old With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
- Should Pediatric Practices HavePolicies to Not Care for ChildrenWith Vaccine-Hesitant Parents?
- When Parents Refuse a Septic Workup for a Newborn
- Should All Deaf Children Learn
Sign Language?
- Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment?
- Genomics
- Introduction | Ethical Issues in Genomics
- Genomic Contraindications for Heart Transplantation
- Please Test My Child for a Cancer Gene, but Don’t Tell Her
- Testing Children for Adult-Onset Genetic Diseases
- Severe Disability
- Introduction | Ethical Issues Surrounding Permanent Severe Disability in Childhood
- Mechanical Ventilation for a Child With Quadriplegia
- An Infant With Trisomy 18 and a Ventricular Septal Defect
- A Baby With Meningococcemia and Septic Shock
- Research Ethics
- Introduction | Research Ethics
- Should an IRB Approve a Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial of Analgesia for Procedural Pain in Neonates?
- When Is Waiver of Consent Appropriate in a Neonatal Clinical Trial?
- Risks in a Trial of an Innovative Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Randomized n-of-1 Trials: Quality Improvement, Research, or Both?
- Law and Health Policy
- Introduction | Issues in Law and Health Policy
- Can a Patient Designate His Doctor as His Proxy Decision Maker?
- Who Should Get the Last PICU Bed?
- Was Sarah Murnaghan Treated Justly?
- Should We Tell Parents When We’ve Made an Error?
- When a Surgical Colleague Makes an Error
- The Dilemma of Predicting Violent Radicalization