Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Legal Medicine, Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)
Informed consent for research: the achievements of the past and the challenges of the future. Anesthesiology. 1999 Jun; 90(6):1499-501.
Informed consent for research: the achievements of the past and the challenges of the future.
Studdert DM, Burns JP, Mello MM, Puopolo AL, Truog RD, Brennan TA
Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stay. Pediatrics. 2003 Sep; 112(3 Pt 1):553-8.
Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stay.
Calhoun AW, Rider EA, Meyer EC, Lamiani G, Truog RD
Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Assessment of communication skills and self-appraisal in the simulated environment: feasibility of multirater feedback with gap analysis. Simul Healthc. 2009; 4(1):22-9.
Assessment of communication skills and self-appraisal in the simulated environment: feasibility of multirater feedback with gap analysis.
Refusal of hydration and nutrition: irrelevance of the "artificial" vs "natural" distinction. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Dec 12-26; 165(22):2574-6.
Refusal of hydration and nutrition: irrelevance of the "artificial" vs "natural" distinction.
The cardiopulmonary resuscitation-not-indicated order: futility revisited. Ann Intern Med. 1995 Feb 15; 122(4):304-8.
The cardiopulmonary resuscitation-not-indicated order: futility revisited.
The controversy over artificial hydration and nutrition. Neurology. 2007 Jan 30; 68(5):391; author reply 392.
The controversy over artificial hydration and nutrition.
Ethical assessment of pediatric research protocols. Intensive Care Med. 2008 Jan; 34(1):198-202.
Ethical assessment of pediatric research protocols.
Irene's story. J Clin Ethics. 2002; 13(3):230-1.
Waisel DB, Lamiani G, Sandrock NJ, Pascucci R, Truog RD, Meyer EC
Anesthesiology trainees face ethical, practical, and relational challenges in obtaining informed consent. Anesthesiology. 2009 Mar; 110(3):480-6.
Anesthesiology trainees face ethical, practical, and relational challenges in obtaining informed consent.
Defining Death-Making Sense of the Case of Jahi McMath. JAMA. 2018 May 08; 319(18):1859-1860.
Defining Death-Making Sense of the Case of Jahi McMath.
Wise-Faberowski L, Soriano SG, Ferrari L, McManus ML, Wolfsdorf JI, Majzoub J, Scott RM, Truog R, Rockoff MA
Perioperative management of diabetes insipidus in children [corrected]. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2004 Jan; 16(1):14-9.
Perioperative management of diabetes insipidus in children [corrected].
Should newborns receive analgesics for pain? J Clin Ethics. 1991; 2(2):115-7.
Should newborns receive analgesics for pain?
The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2009 Jun; 19(2):185-93.
The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics.
Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Leone D, Vegni E, Browning DM, Rider EA, Truog RD, Moja EA
Cross-cultural adaptation of an innovative approach to learning about difficult conversations in healthcare. Med Teach. 2011; 33(2):e57-64.
Cross-cultural adaptation of an innovative approach to learning about difficult conversations in healthcare.
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
"What would you do if this were your child?": practitioners' responses during enacted conversations in the United States. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2012 Nov; 13(6):e372-6.
"What would you do if this were your child?": practitioners' responses during enacted conversations in the United States.
Truog RD, Schena JA, Hershenson MB, Koka BV, Lillehei CW
Repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Anesthesiology. 1990 Apr; 72(4):750-3.
Repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Not euthanasia, simply compassionate clinical care. Crit Care Med. 2008 Apr; 36(4):1387-8; author reply 1389.
Not euthanasia, simply compassionate clinical care.
Devictor DJ, Tissieres P, Gillis J, Truog R
Intercontinental differences in end-of-life attitudes in the pediatric intensive care unit: results of a worldwide survey. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 Nov; 9(6):560-6.
Intercontinental differences in end-of-life attitudes in the pediatric intensive care unit: results of a worldwide survey.
Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations. Hastings Cent Rep. 2008 Nov-Dec; 38(6):38-46.
Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations.
Voluntary Stopping and Eating and Drinking Among Patients With Serious Advanced Illness-A Label in Search of a Problem?-Reply. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 05 01; 178(5):727.
Voluntary Stopping and Eating and Drinking Among Patients With Serious Advanced Illness-A Label in Search of a Problem?-Reply.
Hurlbut JB, Jasanoff S, Saha K, Ahmed A, Appiah A, Bartholet E, Baylis F, Bennett G, Church G, Cohen IG, Daley G, Finneran K, Hurlbut W, Jaenisch R, Lwoff L, Kimes JP, Mills P, Moses J, Park BS, Parens E, Salzman R, Saxena A, Simmet H, Simoncelli T, Snead OC, Rajan KS, Truog RD, Williams P, Woopen C
Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges. Trends Biotechnol. 2018 07; 36(7):639-641.
Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges.
The 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death. JAMA. 2018 Jul 24; 320(4):335-336.
The 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death.
Developmental pharmacology and therapeutics
Fetal pulmonary vasodilation by histamine: response to H1 and H2 stimulation. Dev Pharmacol Ther. 1990; 14(3):180-6.
Fetal pulmonary vasodilation by histamine: response to H1 and H2 stimulation.
Anesthesia in neonatal cardiac surgery. N Engl J Med. 1992 Jul 09; 327(2):125; author reply 127.
Attitudes and preferences of intensivists regarding the role of family interests in medical decision making for incompetent patients. Crit Care Med. 2003 Jul; 31(7):1895-900.
Attitudes and preferences of intensivists regarding the role of family interests in medical decision making for incompetent patients.
Saha K, Hurlbut JB, Jasanoff S, Ahmed A, Appiah A, Bartholet E, Baylis F, Bennett G, Church G, Cohen IG, Daley G, Finneran K, Hurlbut W, Jaenisch R, Lwoff L, Kimes JP, Mills P, Moses J, Park BS, Parens E, Salzman R, Saxena A, Simmet H, Simoncelli T, Snead OC, Rajan KS, Truog RD, Williams P, Woopen C
Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design. Trends Biotechnol. 2018 08; 36(8):741-743.
Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design.
Moynihan KM, Jansen MA, Liaw SN, Alexander PMA, Truog RD
An Ethical Claim for Providing Medical Recommendations in Pediatric Intensive Care. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 08; 19(8):e433-e437.
An Ethical Claim for Providing Medical Recommendations in Pediatric Intensive Care.
Anesthesia does not reduce suffering at the end of life. Crit Care Med. 2012 Jul; 40(7):2268.
Anesthesia does not reduce suffering at the end of life.
Conflicts of interest in critical care partnerships: are we living up to our values? Intensive Care Med. 2018 Oct; 44(10):1730-1731.
Conflicts of interest in critical care partnerships: are we living up to our values?
Death and legal fictions. J Med Ethics. 2011 Dec; 37(12):719-22.
Translating research on communication in the intensive care unit into effective educational strategies. Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar; 38(3):976-7.
Translating research on communication in the intensive care unit into effective educational strategies.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Futility--from hospital policies to state laws. Am J Bioeth. 2006 Sep-Oct; 6(5):19-21; discussion W30-2.
Futility--from hospital policies to state laws.
European journal of anaesthesiology. Supplement
End-of-life decision-making in the United States. Eur J Anaesthesiol Suppl. 2008; 42:43-50.
End-of-life decision-making in the United States.
Browning DM, Meyer EC, Brodsky D, Truog RD
Reflections on love, fear, and specializing in the impossible. J Clin Ethics. 2007; 18(4):373-6.
Reflections on love, fear, and specializing in the impossible.
Lewis-Newby M, Clark JD, Butt WW, Dryden-Palmer K, Parshuram CS, Truog RD
When a Child Dies in the PICU Despite Ongoing Life Support. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 08; 19(8S Suppl 2):S33-S40.
When a Child Dies in the PICU Despite Ongoing Life Support.
Waisel DB, Simon R, Truog RD, Baboolal H, Raemer DB
Anesthesiologist management of perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders: a simulation-based experiment. Simul Healthc. 2009; 4(2):70-6.
Anesthesiologist management of perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders: a simulation-based experiment.
Controversies about brain death. JAMA. 2009 Jul 22; 302(4):380-1; author reply 381-2.
Randomized controlled trials of potentially life-saving therapies: are they ethical? Coron Artery Dis. 1993 Sep; 4(9):835-6.
Randomized controlled trials of potentially life-saving therapies: are they ethical?
Organ donors after circulatory determination of death: not necessarily dead, and it does not necessarily matter. Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar; 38(3):1011-2.
Organ donors after circulatory determination of death: not necessarily dead, and it does not necessarily matter.
Brain perfusion scans to diagnose brain death: more than meets the eye. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010 Jul; 11(4):527-8.
Brain perfusion scans to diagnose brain death: more than meets the eye.
Voluntary Euthanasia - Implications for Organ Donation. N Engl J Med. 2018 Sep 06; 379(10):909-911.
Voluntary Euthanasia - Implications for Organ Donation.
Do-not-resuscitate orders in evolution: matching medical interventions with patient goals. Crit Care Med. 2011 May; 39(5):1213-4.
Do-not-resuscitate orders in evolution: matching medical interventions with patient goals.
McGraw SA, Truog RD, Solomon MZ, Cohen-Bearak A, Sellers DE, Meyer EC
"I was able to still be her mom"--parenting at end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2012 Nov; 13(6):e350-6.
"I was able to still be her mom"--parenting at end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Management of pain in the postoperative neonate. Clin Perinatol. 1989 Mar; 16(1):61-78.
Management of pain in the postoperative neonate.
Young MJ, Brown SE, Truog RD, Halpern SD
Rationing in the intensive care unit: to disclose or disguise? Crit Care Med. 2012 Jan; 40(1):261-6.
Rationing in the intensive care unit: to disclose or disguise?
Amnesia instead of anesthesia: not always a question of consent. J Clin Ethics. 1994; 5(2):153-5.
Amnesia instead of anesthesia: not always a question of consent.
A continuum for using placebo interventions in regional anesthesia and analgesia studies. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Jul; 84(1):163-5.
A continuum for using placebo interventions in regional anesthesia and analgesia studies.
Biological, Legal, and Moral Definitions of Brain Death-Reply. JAMA. 2018 10 09; 320(14):1494-1495.
Biological, Legal, and Moral Definitions of Brain Death-Reply.
Burns JP, Mitchell C, Outwater KM, Geller M, Griffith JL, Todres ID, Truog RD
End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit after the forgoing of life-sustaining treatment. Crit Care Med. 2000 Aug; 28(8):3060-6.
End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit after the forgoing of life-sustaining treatment.
Progress in the futility debate. J Clin Ethics. 1995; 6(2):128-32.
Using newly deceased patients to teach resuscitation procedures. N Engl J Med. 1994 Dec 15; 331(24):1652-5.
Using newly deceased patients to teach resuscitation procedures.
Prolonged administration of isoflurane to pediatric patients during mechanical ventilation. Anesth Analg. 1993 Mar; 76(3):520-6.
Prolonged administration of isoflurane to pediatric patients during mechanical ventilation.
The diagnosis of brain death. N Engl J Med. 2001 Aug 23; 345(8):617; author reply 617-8.
Rider EA, Comeau M, Truog RD, Boyer K, Meyer EC
Identifying intangible assets in interprofessional healthcare organizations: feasibility of an asset inventory. J Interprof Care. 2019 Sep-Oct; 33(5):583-586.
Identifying intangible assets in interprofessional healthcare organizations: feasibility of an asset inventory.
Arnold JH, Truog RD, Scavone JM, Fenton T
Changes in the pharmacodynamic response to fentanyl in neonates during continuous infusion. J Pediatr. 1991 Oct; 119(4):639-43.
Changes in the pharmacodynamic response to fentanyl in neonates during continuous infusion.
Life, death, and solid organ transplantation without brain death. Crit Care Med. 1993 Sep; 21(9 Suppl):S356-7.
Life, death, and solid organ transplantation without brain death.
Anencephalic newborns. Can organs be transplanted before brain death? N Engl J Med. 1989 Aug 10; 321(6):388-91.
Anencephalic newborns. Can organs be transplanted before brain death?
Truog RD, Berlinger N, Zacharias RL, Solomon MZ
Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts. Hastings Cent Rep. 2018 Nov; 48 Suppl 4:S2-S5.
Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts.
Lessons from the Case of Jahi McMath. Hastings Cent Rep. 2018 Nov; 48 Suppl 4:S70-S73.
Pain, euthanasia, and anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology. 1993 Feb; 78(2):353-60.
Pain, euthanasia, and anesthesiologists.
Freer JP, Truog RD, Fackler JC, Bartholme WG, Morgan H
Brain death and the termination of life support: case and analysis. J Clin Ethics. 1992; 3(1):78-82.
Brain death and the termination of life support: case and analysis.
An introduction to ethics. Anesthesiology. 1997 Aug; 87(2):411-7.
DNR in the OR: a goal-directed approach. Anesthesiology. 1999 Jan; 90(1):289-95.
DNR in the OR: a goal-directed approach.
Bragdon v. Abbott. J Clin Anesth. 1999 Sep; 11(6):494-8.
To breathe or not to breathe. J Clin Ethics. 1994; 5(1):39-41.
Increasing the participation of children in clinical research. Intensive Care Med. 2005 Jun; 31(6):760-1.
Increasing the participation of children in clinical research.
Yes, Families Really Do Respond to More Empathetic Physicians. JAMA Netw Open. 2018 07 06; 1(3):e180352.
Yes, Families Really Do Respond to More Empathetic Physicians.
Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Rider EA, Browning DM, Vegni E, Mauri E, Moja EA, Truog RD
Assumptions and blind spots in patient-centredness: action research between American and Italian health care professionals. Med Educ. 2008 Jul; 42(7):712-20.
Assumptions and blind spots in patient-centredness: action research between American and Italian health care professionals.
Should patients receive general anesthesia prior to extubation at the end of life?. Crit Care Med. 2012 Feb; 40(2):631-3.
Should patients receive general anesthesia prior to extubation at the end of life?.
Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science. 2012 Jul 06; 337(6090):37-8.
Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time
Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine
Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry
Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time
Michalsen A, Long AC, DeKeyser Ganz F, White DB, Jensen HI, Metaxa V, Hartog CS, Latour JM, Truog RD, Kesecioglu J, Mahn AR, Curtis JR
Interprofessional Shared Decision-Making in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Recommendations From an Expert Panel. Crit Care Med. 2019 09; 47(9):1258-1266.
Interprofessional Shared Decision-Making in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Recommendations From an Expert Panel.
Adashi EY, Caplan AL, Capron A, Chapman AR, Cho M, Clayton EW, Cohen IG, Cook-Deegan R, Faden RR, Friedmann T, Gostin LO, Greely HT, Johnston J, Juengst E, King PA, Knowles LP, Lyerly AD, McGuire AL, Moreno JD, Rothenberg K, Truog RD, Walters L
In support of mitochondrial replacement therapy. Nat Med. 2019 06; 25(6):870-871.
In support of mitochondrial replacement therapy.
Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine
Corresponding Member of the Faculty of Surgery
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Commentary: Defining Death: Definitions, Criteria, and Tests. Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2019 10; 28(4):642-647.
Commentary: Defining Death: Definitions, Criteria, and Tests.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Relevance of the Killing Versus Letting Die Distinction. Am J Bioeth. 2019 03; 19(3):34-36.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Relevance of the Killing Versus Letting Die Distinction.
Of Slide Rules and Stethoscopes: AI and the Future of Doctoring. Hastings Cent Rep. 2019 09; 49(5):3.
Of Slide Rules and Stethoscopes: AI and the Future of Doctoring.
Is 'best interests' the right standard in cases like that of Charlie Gard? J Med Ethics. 2020 01; 46(1):16-17.
Is 'best interests' the right standard in cases like that of Charlie Gard?
How Ought Health Care Be Allocated? Two Proposals. Perspect Biol Med. 2019; 62(4):765-777.
How Ought Health Care Be Allocated? Two Proposals.
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment and Limiting Overtreatment at the End of Life. JAMA. 2020 03 10; 323(10):934-935.
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment and Limiting Overtreatment at the End of Life.
Lewis-Newby M, Sellers DE, Meyer EC, Solomon MZ, Zurakowski D, Truog RD
Location of Clinician-Family Communication at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Clinician Perception of Communication Quality. J Palliat Med. 2020 08; 23(8):1052-1059.
Location of Clinician-Family Communication at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Clinician Perception of Communication Quality.
The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic. N Engl J Med. 2020 May 21; 382(21):1973-1975.
The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic.
Newman LR, Truog RD, Armstrong EG, Hatem CJ, Leichtner AM
Use of Nazi torture device image in digital scholarship article. Med Teach. 2020 06; 42(6):717-718.
Use of Nazi torture device image in digital scholarship article.
Maves RC, Downar J, Dichter JR, Hick JL, Devereaux A, Geiling JA, Kissoon N, Hupert N, Niven AS, King MA, Rubinson LL, Hanfling D, Hodge JG, Marshall MF, Fischkoff K, Evans LE, Tonelli MR, Wax RS, Seda G, Parrish JS, Truog RD, Sprung CL, Christian MD
Triage of Scarce Critical Care Resources in COVID-19 An Implementation Guide for Regional Allocation: An Expert Panel Report of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care and the American College of Chest Physicians. Chest. 2020 07; 158(1):212-225.
Triage of Scarce Critical Care Resources in COVID-19 An Implementation Guide for Regional Allocation: An Expert Panel Report of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Understanding Brain Death. JAMA. 2020 Jun 02; 323(21):2139-2140.
McGrath BA, Brenner MJ, Warrillow SJ, Pandian V, Arora A, Cameron TS, Añon JM, Hernández Martínez G, Truog RD, Block SD, Lui GCY, McDonald C, Rassekh CH, Atkins J, Qiang L, Vergez S, Dulguerov P, Zenk J, Antonelli M, Pelosi P, Walsh BK, Ward E, Shang Y, Gasparini S, Donati A, Singer M, Openshaw PJM, Tolley N, Markel H, Feller-Kopman DJ
Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 07; 8(7):717-725.
Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance.
Sprung CL, Joynt GM, Christian MD, Truog RD, Rello J, Nates JL
Adult ICU Triage During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Who Will Live and Who Will Die? Recommendations to Improve Survival. Crit Care Med. 2020 May 06.
Adult ICU Triage During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Who Will Live and Who Will Die? Recommendations to Improve Survival.
Paquette E, Frader J, Shah S, C Tasker R, Truog R
Beyond the Apnea Test: An Argument to Broaden the Requirement for Consent to the Entire Brain Death Evaluation. Am J Bioeth. 2020 06; 20(6):17-19.
Beyond the Apnea Test: An Argument to Broaden the Requirement for Consent to the Entire Brain Death Evaluation.
Berkowitz I, Burgart A, Truog RD, Mancuso TJ, Char D, Lantos JD
Parents Demand and Teenager Refuses Epidural Anesthesia. Pediatrics. 2020 06; 145(6).
Parents Demand and Teenager Refuses Epidural Anesthesia.
Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA. 2020 Jul 28; 324(4):337-338.
Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Adult ICU Triage During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Who Will Live and Who Will Die? Recommendations to Improve Survival. Crit Care Med. 2020 08; 48(8):1196-1202.
Defining Death: Lessons From the Case of Jahi McMath. Pediatrics. 2020 08; 146(Suppl 1):S75-S80.
Defining Death: Lessons From the Case of Jahi McMath.
Brain Death-Moving Beyond Consistency in the Diagnostic Criteria. JAMA. 2020 09 15; 324(11):1045-1047.
Brain Death-Moving Beyond Consistency in the Diagnostic Criteria.
Trustworthiness before Trust - Covid-19 Vaccine Trials and the Black Community. N Engl J Med. 2020 Nov 26; 383(22):e121.
Trustworthiness before Trust - Covid-19 Vaccine Trials and the Black Community.
Allocating Resources Across the Life Span During COVID-19-Integrating Neonates and Children Into Crisis Standards of Care Protocols. JAMA Pediatr. 2021 04 01; 175(4):347-348.
Allocating Resources Across the Life Span During COVID-19-Integrating Neonates and Children Into Crisis Standards of Care Protocols.
Crisis Level ICU Triage Is About Saving Lives. Crit Care Med. 2021 01 01; 49(1):e102-e103.
Crisis Level ICU Triage Is About Saving Lives.
Sönmez T, Pathak PA, Ünver MU, Persad G, Truog RD, White DB
Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities. Chest. 2021 03; 159(3):1294-1299.
Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities.
What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? AMA J Ethics. 2020 12 01; 22(12):E986-994.
What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death?
Moynihan KM, Taylor L, Crowe L, Balnaves MC, Irving H, Ozonoff A, Truog RD, Jansen M
Ethical climate in contemporary paediatric intensive care. J Med Ethics. 2021 Jan 11.
Ethical climate in contemporary paediatric intensive care.
Barsky EE, Berbert LM, Dahlberg SE, Truog RD
Attitudes towards involving children in decision-making surrounding lung transplantation. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2021 06; 56(6):1534-1542.
Attitudes towards involving children in decision-making surrounding lung transplantation.
Futility: the limits of mediation. Chest. 2008 Oct; 134(4):888-889.
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death. Hastings Cent Rep. 2021 07; 51(4):18-21.
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death.
Young MJ, Bodien YG, Giacino JT, Fins JJ, Truog RD, Hochberg LR, Edlow BL
The neuroethics of disorders of consciousness: a brief history of evolving ideas. Brain. 2021 12 16; 144(11):3291-3310.
The neuroethics of disorders of consciousness: a brief history of evolving ideas.
Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy. Hastings Cent Rep. 2021 09; 51(5):56-57.
Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Seeking Conceptual Clarity in Organ Procurement Following Circulatory Determination of Death. J Law Med Ethics. 2021; 49(3):441-443.
Seeking Conceptual Clarity in Organ Procurement Following Circulatory Determination of Death.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Do Not Attempt Resuscitation in the Operating Room: A Misconstrued Paradox? J Am Coll Surg. 2022 05 01; 234(5):953-957.
Do Not Attempt Resuscitation in the Operating Room: A Misconstrued Paradox?
White DB, McCreary EK, Chang CH, Schmidhofer M, Bariola JR, Jonassaint NN, Persad G, Truog RD, Pathak P, Sonmez T, Unver MU
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 08 15; 206(4):503-506.
A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics.
Apology laws and open disclosure. Med J Aust. 2013 May 06; 198(8):411-2.
Gries CJ, White DB, Truog RD, Dubois J, Cosio CC, Dhanani S, Chan KM, Corris P, Dark J, Fulda G, Glazier AK, Higgins R, Love R, Mason DP, Nakagawa TA, Shapiro R, Shemie S, Tracy MF, Travaline JM, Valapour M, West L, Zaas D, Halpern SD
An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Jul 01; 188(1):103-9.
An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death.
Palliative care in the ICU: lots of questions, few answers*. Crit Care Med. 2013 Jun; 41(6):1568-9.
Palliative care in the ICU: lots of questions, few answers*.
The luck of the draw: physician-related variability in end-of-life decision-making in intensive care. Intensive Care Med. 2013 Jun; 39(6):1128-32.
The luck of the draw: physician-related variability in end-of-life decision-making in intensive care.
Krakower TM, Montello M, Mitchell C, Truog RD
The ethics of reality medical television. J Clin Ethics. 2013; 24(1):50-7.
The ethics of reality medical television.
Wilfond BS, Magnus D, Antommaria AH, Appelbaum P, Aschner J, Barrington KJ, Beauchamp T, Boss RD, Burke W, Caplan AL, Capron AM, Cho M, Clayton EW, Cole FS, Darlow BA, Diekema D, Faden RR, Feudtner C, Fins JJ, Fost NC, Frader J, Hester DM, Janvier A, Joffe S, Kahn J, Kass NE, Kodish E, Lantos JD, McCullough L, McKinney R, Meadow W, O'Rourke PP, Powderly KE, Pursley DM, Ross LF, Sayeed S, Sharp RR, Sugarman J, Tarnow-Mordi WO, Taylor H, Tomlinson T, Truog RD, Unguru YT, Weise KL, Woodrum D, Youngner S
The OHRP and SUPPORT. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jun 20; 368(25):e36.
Sprung CL, Danis M, Iapichino G, Artigas A, Kesecioglu J, Moreno R, Lippert A, Curtis JR, Meale P, Cohen SL, Levy MM, Truog RD
Triage of intensive care patients: identifying agreement and controversy. Intensive Care Med. 2013 Nov; 39(11):1916-24.
Triage of intensive care patients: identifying agreement and controversy.
The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation. N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 03; 369(14):1287-9.
The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation.
International journal of surgical pathology
"Apologies" from pathologists: why, when, and how to say "sorry" after committing a medical error. Int J Surg Pathol. 2014 May; 22(3):242-6.
"Apologies" from pathologists: why, when, and how to say "sorry" after committing a medical error.
Mularski RA, Reinke LF, Carrieri-Kohlman V, Fischer MD, Campbell ML, Rocker G, Schneidman A, Jacobs SS, Arnold R, Benditt JO, Booth S, Byock I, Chan GK, Curtis JR, Donesky D, Hansen-Flaschen J, Heffner J, Klein R, Limberg TM, Manning HL, Morrison RS, Ries AL, Schmidt GA, Selecky PA, Truog RD, Wang AC, White DB
An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: assessment and palliative management of dyspnea crisis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2013 Oct; 10(5):S98-106.
An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: assessment and palliative management of dyspnea crisis.
Gallagher TH, Mello MM, Levinson W, Wynia MK, Sachdeva AK, Snyder Sulmasy L, Truog RD, Conway J, Mazor K, Lembitz A, Bell SK, Sokol-Hessner L, Shapiro J, Puopolo AL, Arnold R
Talking with patients about other clinicians' errors. N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 31; 369(18):1752-7.
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Should we tell parents when we've made an error? Pediatrics. 2015 Jan; 135(1):159-63.
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Deception and simulation education: issues, concepts, and commentary. Simul Healthc. 2015 Jun; 10(3):163-9.
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Lewis-Newby M, Wicclair M, Pope T, Rushton C, Curlin F, Diekema D, Durrer D, Ehlenbach W, Gibson-Scipio W, Glavan B, Langer RL, Manthous C, Rose C, Scardella A, Shanawani H, Siegel MD, Halpern SD, Truog RD, White DB
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