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Parental Requests for Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children with Overwhelming Neurological Injury

Speaker(s)

Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture

Commentator: Walter Robinson, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
Case Presenters: Margaret Hood, MD, and Sid Gospe, MD, PhD, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Date 1.20.11

Drs. Robinson, Hood and Gospe discuss how to navigate disagreements between parents and providers about the long-term use of mechanical ventilation, tracheostomies and gastrostomy tubes in children with profound neurological injuries.