Applying medical ethics to dynamic situations experienced in prehospital medicine can be especially challenging. Between suicidal patients, unclear “Do Not Resuscitate” orders and patients who may lack decision making capacity, doing what’s right for the patient may not always be straightforward. This session will start with a description of the four pillars of medical ethics. Attendees will then learn a method for rapidly approaching emergency ethical problems and three tests to evaluate new ethical dilemmas. The majority of the session will be spent as a discussion, allowing students to apply what they have learned to five actual case studies.
