Neuroethics Seminar: Busting Clots on Your Behalf?: The Ethics of Presumed Consent to Thrombolytics in Acute Stroke
Event Description
You've just suffered a large stroke, and are unable to communicate. Your doctor in the ER wants to give you a thrombolytic ("clot-busting") drug. The drug will improve your odds of a good outcome from the stroke, but also comes with a small risk of brain hemorrhage (which might make you worse off). If the doctor can't find your surrogate decision-maker, should she give you the drug anyway?
Panelists will discuss the ethics of presumed (or "emergency", or "implied") consent in the context of caring for patients with acute stroke.
Panel
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Winston Chiong MD, PhD, Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco
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Lee Schwamm MD, Director, TeleStroke and Acute Stroke, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Jolion McGreevy MD, Emergency Medicine, Boston University
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Neuroethics Seminar Series
This event is part of a series hosted by the Center for Biothics at Harvard Medical School. For more information, visit the website.
Co-sponsors
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The International Neuroethics Society
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The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
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Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior, MGH
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Institute for the Neurosciences, BWH
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Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
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Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
With funding from
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Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University
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The Harvard Brain Initiative Collaborative Seed Grant Program