Time | 1502 - 1520 |
Decisions Made Seconds Before Disaster
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
David Anderson
David is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria, an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital and an adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. He has trained and worked as a paramedic in Auckland and as a doctor in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma, EMCO and bioethics. He has an embarrassingly large collection of Lego.
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