title: Clinical ethics case consultation.
abstract: Nurses in the Pediatric ICU requested an ethics consultation asking "Is it fair to this child to continue painful experimental surgical procedures?"
authors.affiliation: Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont, USA.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Orr
mesh_terms: D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D033061:Ethics Consultation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D008020:Life Support Care; D010146:Pain; D033282:Parental Consent; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical