Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Neal Dickert, MD, PhD, FACC
12:00pm - 1:00pm • Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104
2019-06-03 12:00:00 2019-06-03 13:00:00 America/New_York Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Neal Dickert, MD, PhD, FACC Consent for clinical research in emergency settings: Patient-centered or pointless? Informed consent for clinical research in the context of acute and emergent illness is widely recognized as challenging and is often not possible. There is, however, a wide spectrum of acute and emergent conditions and a similarly wide range of potential for patients and surrogates to engage in decisions about research enrollment. Dr. Dickert will focus on research designed to understand and integrate patients’ and surrogates’ perspectives on consent for clinical trials in the context of acute myocardial infarction and stroke. He will argue that involving patients and surrogates in enrollment decisions in many emergency situations is not pointless despite important limitations that must be recognized. Commentary by Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FAHA Professor and Vice Chair for Research Director, Center for Resuscitation Science Department of Emergency Medicine Perelman School of Medicine To learn more about the speaker, check out Dr. Dickert’s bio: http://medicine.emory.edu/cardiology/emory-first-faculty-directory/profile.html?f=NJR Benjamin S. Abella: https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g321/p8128370 Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 Penn Medical EthicsConsent for clinical research in emergency settings: Patient-centered or pointless?
Informed consent for clinical research in the context of acute and emergent illness is widely recognized as challenging and is often not possible. There is, however, a wide spectrum of acute and emergent conditions and a similarly wide range of potential for patients and surrogates to engage in decisions about research enrollment. Dr. Dickert will focus on research designed to understand and integrate patients’ and surrogates’ perspectives on consent for clinical trials in the context of acute myocardial infarction and stroke. He will argue that involving patients and surrogates in enrollment decisions in many emergency situations is not pointless despite important limitations that must be recognized.
Commentary by
Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FAHA
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Director, Center for Resuscitation Science
Department of Emergency Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
To learn more about the speaker, check out Dr. Dickert’s bio: http://medicine.emory.edu/cardiology/emory-first-faculty-directory/profile.html?f=NJR
Benjamin S. Abella:
https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g321/p8128370