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Ethics Training Is More Effective In-Person than Online
Graduate students at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX, have received Responsible Conduct of Research/Professional Ethics Training since 2008 with very good results. Cheryl Stenmark, PhD, and colleagues wanted to know if the program would be equally successful if presented as a real-time, video-streamed, remote training.
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Surrogate Decision-Makers Are Most Common Issue in Ethics Consults for Patients with Liver Disease
Surrogate decision-making was the primary ethical issue for clinical ethics consults involving patients with liver disease, according to a recent study.
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Incarcerated Patients Pose Unique Ethical Concerns
Clinicians encounter incarcerated patients in both inpatient and ambulatory settings. Multiple ethical complexities come up with patient care in this population.
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Privacy Is Ethical Concern with Suicide Research Recruitment in ED Setting
Clinical research is necessary to improve the management of potentially suicidal individuals. However, there are multiple ethical concerns about how to protect the rights and well-being of study participants.
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Ethical Approaches for End-of-Life Communication with Non-English-Speaking ICU Patients
When caring for non-English-language-speaking intensive care unit patients, clinicians face all the same ethical issues as they do with any other patient, and some additional ones when cases involve patients who speak rarer languages.
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Emotional Effect of Clinical Ethics Work Often Goes Unrecognized
There is a great deal of focus on the emotional well-being of nurses and physicians, but the effects of clinical ethics work on ethicists are largely undiscussed. Anna Goff, PhD, HEC-C, colleagues interviewed 34 clinical ethicists in 2023 to learn the effect of their professional responsibilities and how coping mechanisms and organizational structures can help.
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Systolic Blood Pressure Targets in Octogenarians
An analysis of a U.S. national database of patients 80 years of age or older taking antihypertensive agents was analyzed to determine the optimal systolic blood pressure associated with the lowest cardiovascular mortality and found that the ideal target was < 130 mmHg.
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Direct Oral Anticoagulants vs. Warfarin for Left Ventricular Thrombus
A small pilot randomized controlled trial, plus a meta-analysis including four other randomized controlled trials, of direct oral anticoagulants compared to warfarin for the treatment of left ventricular thrombus after ST-elevation myocardial infarction has shown that there were no significant differences in the two regimens regarding thrombus resolution and major bleeding events at three-month follow-up.
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The Cause of the ‘Burning?’
The electrocardiogram (ECG) in the figure is from a man with a new and severe “burning” chest discomfort. On seeing this ECG, the paramedic team requested activating the cath lab. Would you have done the same?
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Use of Coronary Calcium Score in Familial Coronary Artery Disease
A randomized trial of computed tomography (CT) coronary artery calcium score augmented management vs. usual care of primary prevention patients at moderate risk of a coronary event and with a family history of premature coronary events has shown that, after three years of follow-up, the calcium score group had lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and smaller total plaque volumes by CT angiography.