Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Medicine Grand Rounds - Equity, Efficiency, and ICU Triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 6/11/2021 8:00:00 AM - 6/11/2024 9:00:00 AM, Participants in Medicine Grand Rounds will be able to identify the most current treatment guidelines, innovations, and standards of practice, and apply them to improve the care of individual patients, promote health and wellness in the population, and achieve clinical quality and safety goals. These educational activities are grounded in principles of health equity, evidence based medicine, inter-professional teamwork, patient-centered care, and respect for human dignity.
Presenter
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
Vice Chair and Professor of Critical Care Medicine
UPMC Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
About our Presenter
Dr. White graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1995 with a degree in English Literature. He received his medical degree from UCSF and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. While at UCSF, he also completed a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a fellowship in Bioethics.
He directs the University’s Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, which is the first program in the country focused on ethical issues in critical care medicine.
Dr. White’s scholarship focuses on ethical issues that arise in the care of critically ill patients and on developing interventions to improve surrogate decision making for incapacitated, seriously ill patients.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to present strategies to promote equitable allocation of scarce resources during ICU triage using a suite of equity interventions and a multi-principle triage framework.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Planning Committee member role was resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by Marc Bertrand, MD, Associate Dean for GME (as alternate for vacant Associate Dean for CME position). All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Fractyl and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Material
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.
Presenter
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
Vice Chair and Professor of Critical Care Medicine
UPMC Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
About our Presenter
Dr. White graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1995 with a degree in English Literature. He received his medical degree from UCSF and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. While at UCSF, he also completed a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a fellowship in Bioethics.
He directs the University’s Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, which is the first program in the country focused on ethical issues in critical care medicine.
Dr. White’s scholarship focuses on ethical issues that arise in the care of critically ill patients and on developing interventions to improve surrogate decision making for incapacitated, seriously ill patients.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to present strategies to promote equitable allocation of scarce resources during ICU triage using a suite of equity interventions and a multi-principle triage framework.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Planning Committee member role was resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by Marc Bertrand, MD, Associate Dean for GME (as alternate for vacant Associate Dean for CME position). All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Fractyl and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Material
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.
