This webinar will guide NCS members through an experience of creating a reasonable accommodations policy, describing the clinical, ethical, and legal aspects considered and the multidisciplinary process of review and approval.
Webinar Objectives:
1. Analyze the legal and ethical requirements established by the 2023 AAN/AAP/CNS/ASNR Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria guidelines regarding the need for reasonable accommodations in the continuum of care in BD/DNC including the withdrawal organ support.
2. Describe a process for creating an institutional "Reasonable Accommodations" policy that promotes clinical standards of care while recognizing requests for accommodations.
3. Evaluate strategies for utilizing administrative protocols for understanding and resolving conflicts with families to ensure and equitable, ethical, and legally defensible policy implementation.
Speakers:
Debra Roberts, MD, PhD, University of Rochester
Krista Lim-Hing, MD, Northwell
Ariane Lewis, MD, NYU
Casey Hall, MD, Emory
Adgenda:
1:00-1:03 PM: Introduction (Casey Hall)
1:03-1:13 PM: An overview of reasonable accommodations from the 2023 BD/DNC Guidelines perspective (Arinae Lewis)
1:13-1:28 PM: Creating a Reasonable Accommodations policy—the University of Rochester experience (Debra Roberts)
1:28-1:40 PM: Engaging equitably, ethically, and legally with families in the setting of BD/DNC (Krista Lim-Hing)
1:40-1:55 PM: Roundtable discussion
1:55-2:00 PM: Closure (Casey Hall)
Pricing:
NCS Member: FREE
Non-member: $29