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July Webinar – Just Announced!
The Ethics of Real-Time EMS Direction: Suggested Curricular Content
Jay Brenner, MD, FACEP
26 July – 09:30 EDT
Presentation Summary: Ethical dilemmas can create moral distress in even the most experienced emergency physicians (EPs). Following reasonable and justified approaches can help alleviate such distress. This presentation will help guide EPs providing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) direction to navigate through common ethical issues confronted in the prehospital delivery of care, including protecting privacy and confidentiality, decision-making capacity and refusal of treatment, withholding of treatment, and termination of resuscitation (TOR). This requires a strong foundation in the principles and theories underlying sound ethical decisions that EPs and prehospital providers make every day in good faith, but will now also make with more awareness and conscientiousness.
Presenter Profile: Dr. Brenner is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Medical Director of the Community Campus Emergency Department at SUNY-Upstate Medical University. He received his BA in Bioethics and MD from The George Washington University. He teaches as a Small Group instructor in the Clinical Bioethics course. His bioethics and humanities research interests include, but are not limited to, ethical issues in emergency medicine such as EMS medical control, EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act), the difficult patient, discharging against medical advice, psychiatric commitment laws, impaired driver reporting, bioethics in film, preventing gun violence, and providing interpreter services.
PDM 33:3 (June 2018) is now on Cambridge Core!
The June issue (Volume 33, Issue 3) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available through Cambridge Core. This issue features articles on needle thoracostomy, behavioral concerns resulting from the Flint water crisis (Michigan, USA), electronic versus manual MCI triage, as well as three papers by Dr. Mark Keim on defining, assessing, and managing disaster-related health risk. These are in addition to 12 other articles appearing in June’s issue.
WADEM members have unlimited access to every issue of PDM through Cambridge Core. Check back often for the most recent content in disaster and emergency health!
Please log into the website and click on the PDM graphic or link to be directed to PDM’s webpage on Cambridge Core. Click on the “Latest Issue” tab to view 33:3.