Ethics of ICU admission (Clinical lunch chat – On-demand)
Professor Guy Richards provides guidance on how to navigate decision-making in critical care, balance resource limitations, and apply ethical principles such as distributive justice in everyday practice
Learning objectives
You will learn:
- Differentiate criteria for ICU admission and recognise the complexities of determining who qualifies for intensive care
- Evaluate the decision-making process for admission, acknowledging the limitations of human judgment and the influence of systemic constraints such as bed availability
- Discuss access to healthcare as a constitutional and ethical right within the South African context, recognising the balance between rights and resource limitations
- Apply ethical principles, particularly distributive justice, to guide fair allocation of scarce healthcare resources
- Identify lawful versus unlawful clinical actions in end-of-life and ICU care, ensuring alignment with legal and ethical frameworks.
ATTENTIONKindly note that if you attended the live webinar and completed the questions after the event, you have already received 1 CPD point and will not be permitted to receive additional points for the on-demand video and questions. Should this occur, the HPCSA will only record 1 CPD point from the live webinar, invalidating any additional CPD points from this activity.Please note deNovo Medica ensures uploading of your CPD points to the HPCSA: please don't upload these yourself.
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