Critical Care Ethics EOL Practice Guide

The ACCM Ethics Committee serves the College and all Society members by addressing the special ethical issues related to care for critically ill and injured patients.

Now available to members and the public are two sets of resources relevant to critical care ethics:

• End of Life (EOL) decisions are of primary importance to patients, families, and their critical care providers.  The Committee offers a set of resources from the EOL Page.
• Critical Care Ethics: A Practice Guide is now available in print.  Browse the table of contents, access chapters as PDF files, and submit questions for future revisions of the guide.  For details visit the dedicated Practice Guide page, or order from the SCCM online catalog.

Contacts

ACCM Ethics Committee Chair

David C. Kaufman, MD, FCCM

University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital

Rochester, NY  USA

david_kaufman@urmc.rochester.edu

SCCM Staff

Eric Chandler
Manager of Professional Affairs
+1 847.827.6866
echandler@sccm.org

Mission Statement of the ACCM/SCCM Ethics Committee:
"To identify ethical issues which are particularly relevant and important to critical care medicine; develop strategies to recognize a consensus concerning ethical issues in critical care medicine; develop a methodology to disperse knowledge concerning ethical issues to critical care medicine professionals and to implement change; and develop a process of interaction with other organizations that share ethical concerns in critical care areas." The committee reports to the Chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.