Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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Ethics Grand Round: an interactive session

Grand round
Chairs: S. Hartl (Vienna, Austria), M. Muers (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Aims: Awareness of specific ethical questions of actual problems that are relevant in patient treatment supporting decisions in daily practice. It will influence the critical reading of large trials, looking to the unanswered questions. For those who set up trials and are involved in funding it will be helpful to consider the definition of benefit with respect to economics and ethics as discussed in the session. The audience can participate by electronic voting to check their decision in all presentations.

A 60-yr-old ex-smoker with a stage IV dyspnoea J. Aubert (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Domiciliary ventilation: living and dying under a machine? S. Nava (Bologna, Italy)
Palliative care or standard chemotherapy in lung cancer patients? N. Schoenfeld (Berlin, Germany)