Ethics CME Event
Medical Futility Conflicts
Key Strategies for Responding to Patient and Surrogate Requests for Non-Beneficial and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment
WATCH the Recording of this CME Event.
Presenter:
Join the St. Cloud Hospital Ethics Committee and welcome Health Law Professor and Bioethicist, Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C for this in-person and virtual Ethics CME Event.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Describe widely recognized best practices for resolving disputes concerning nonbeneficial or potentially inappropriate treatment (aka medical futility conflicts).
- Recognize that many medico-legal concerns about writing unilateral orders to withhold or withdraw life sustaining treatment are misplaced and not evidence based.
- Explain how Minnesota law authorizes clinicians and hospitals to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment without patient or substitute decision maker consent when the requested treatment is ineffective or contrary to generally accepted health care standards.
Note: Content is offered live at Hoppe Auditorium, Saint Cloud Hospital, and virtually on TEAMS.
CentraCare is accredited by the Minnesota Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CentraCare designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement(s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
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