Difficult ethical decisions Grand Round - An interactive session

Grand round
Chairs: S. Hartl (Vienna, Austria), S. Nava (Pavia, Italy)
Aims: To discuss with the audience four difficult ethical desicions in four different fields of respiratory medicine such as paediatric, intensive care, chronic care and surgical scenarios.

A time to live, a time to die, but who decides when, and why? Advance decision making for two patients with ALS M. W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Resolving conflict and decision-making in a cerebral palsy patient with recurrent ICU admissions A. Simonds (London, United Kingdom)
Coin lesion in the lung in a functionally marginal patient E. Canalis (Barcelona, Spain)