What happens when the medical team and parents have divergent views about the best interests of the infant? Dr Sid Vemuri, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program, and Dr Bennett Sheridan, Paediatric Cardiologist, Cardiac Intensivist, RCH, and Nurse Emelina Finnegan present a case of an infant with an inoperable congenital heart malformation whose life is prolonged by prostin infusion.

2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respecting families' cultural and religious beliefs and practices - going too far or not far enough?

Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respecting families' cultural and religious beliefs and practices - going too far or not far enough?

2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respecting families' cultural and religious beliefs and practices - going too far or not far enough?

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