title: Patient with a devastating embolic stroke: using weekly multidisciplinary ethics rounds in the neuroscience intensive care unit to facilitate care and communication.
abstract: The challenges families face in making decisions for loved ones after a severe stroke are best supported when the treatment team has the opportunity to share information and perspectives. Weekly multidisciplinary ethics rounds provides a very good forum for just such discussions. Using a case example, this article describes the framework for ethics rounds and its utility in a neuroscience intensive care unit.
authors: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Jehle
authors: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Martha
authors: M
authors: Jurchak
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000941:ethics*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009488:Neurosciences; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology*; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation