Ethics

Truog RD. Brain death – too flawed to endure, too ingrained to abandon. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2007; 35(2):273-281

 Truog RD, Christ G, Browning DM, Meyer EC. Sudden traumatic death in children: “we did everything, but your child didn’t survive”. JAMA 2006; 295(22):2646-2654

Truog RD, Brock DW, Cook DJ, Danis M, Luce JM, Rubenfeld GD, Levy MM. Rationing in the intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 2006; 34(4):958-963

Truog RD, Meyer EC, Burns JP. Toward interventions to improve end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 2006; 34(11 Suppl):S373-S379

Truog, RD & Mitchell, C.  Futility—From Hospital Policies to State Laws, The American Journal of Bioethics. 6 (5), 2006, 19-21

Truog RD, Cochrane TI. Refusal of hydration and nutrition: Irrelevance of the “artificial” versus “natural” distinction. Archives of Internal Medicine 2005; 165:2574-2576

Truog RD. The ethics of organ donation by living donors. New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 353(5):444-446.

Mitchell, C. Truog, R. Seeking Blinded Consent, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 14 (1-2), 2003, 88-89

Hardart GE, Truog RD. Attitudes and preferences of intensivists regarding the role of family interests in medical decision making for incompetent patients (Feature Article). Critical Care Medicine 2003; 31(7):1895-1900

Hardart MK, Truog RD. Spinal muscular atrophy–type I: The challenge of defining a child’s best interests. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003; 88(10):848-850.

Mitchell, C. Truog, R. A Bridge to Nowhere, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 14 (3),  2003, 189

Hardart MK, Burns JP, Truog RD. Respiratory support in spinal muscular atrophy type I: a survey of physician practices and attitudes. Pediatrics 2002; 110(2 Pt 1):e24

Meyer EC, Burns JP, Griffith JL, Truog RD. Parental perspectives on end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 2002; 30(1):226-231

Mitchell, C. Truog, R. Irene’s Story, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 13 (3), 2002, 230-231

Burns JP, Mitchell C, Griffith JL, Truog RD. End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care physicians and nurses. Critical Care Medicine 2001; 29(3):658-664

Truog RD, Cist AF, Brackett SE, Burns JP, Curley MA, Danis M, DeVita MA, Rosenbaum SH, Rothenberg DM, Sprung CL, Webb SA, Wlody GS, Hurford WE. Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Critical Care Medicine 2001; 29(12):2332-2348.

Truog RD, Burns JP, Mitchell C, Johnson J, Robinson W. Pharmacologic paralysis and withdrawal of mechanical ventilation at the end of life. New England Journal of Medicine 2000; 342(7):508-511.

Truog, R.  Mitchell, C. Guest Editors, Special Issue on Ethics in Pediatrics, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 11 (2), Summer 2000

Rosenbaum, G. Burns, J. Johnson, J. Mitchell, C. Robinson, M. Truog, R. Autopsy Consent Practice at US Teaching Hospitals: Results of a National Survey, Archives of Internal Medicine, 160(3), 374-80, Feb. 14, 2000

Truog, R. Berde, CB. Mitchell, C. Grier, HE. Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill, New England Journal of Medicine, 327:1678-1682, December 3, 1992