Quick tip for families in ICU: Ethics committees in ICU

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Quick tip for families in ICU: Ethics committees in ICU

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

Today’s tip is about, “Ethics committees in intensive care”. Now, many families in intensive care when they challenge situations in ICU, when ICU says that it’s “in the best interest” for your loved one to have life support withdrawn. And I have yet to find out how it can be in someone’s best interest to have life support withdrawn when they’re in intensive care and fighting for their life. It’s a subjective experience, not an objective experience. And it’s a subjective experience that is unique to a patient and a family.

So, when families in intensive care challenge those situations, ICUs often bring in the ethics committee and say, “Oh, we got to refer this to the ethics committee.” Now I can tell you, after having worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries, from my experience, the ethics committee is just a fuss. You will have a panel of mainly doctors that have done an ethics degree as part of their studies at some point and then they claim that the ethics committee deems them to be fit to make life-or-death decisions.

And from my experience again, after having worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries and having worked for over five years as a nurse unit manager in intensive care, I just felt like the ethics committee is once again, just a fuss. Because it’s just mates covering mates, and everybody says what the hospital wants to hear. How they can manage beds? How they can free up beds? It’s not about being ethical.

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