Effect of Ethics Consultations on Nonbeneficial Life-Sustaining Treatments in the Intensive Care Setting

Key Points

• Investigate the role of ethics consultations in addressing conflicts over life-sustaining treatments in the ICU.
• Conducted in an intensive care unit setting
• Utilized ethics consultations to address patient treatment decisions
• Ethics consultations effectively resolved conflicts over unwanted treatments
• Reduced the duration of nonbeneficial treatments in the ICU