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Revisiting Ethical Guidelines for Research with Terminal Wean and Brain-Dead Participants

2003; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3527910

1552-146X

Rebecca D. Pentz, Anne L. Flamm, Renata Pasqualini, Christopher J. Logothetis, Wadih Arap,

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Some research is too risky to be conducted on anyone with a life expectancy of more than a few hours. Yet under some circumstances, the research can still be carried out by using subjects who are either brain dead or are soon to undergo a terminal wean, and who have articulated values that inclusion in the study can honor. So argues a team of ethicists and researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where such research was recently undertaken.