Failure to Thrive or Refusal to Adapt? Missing Links in the Evolution from Ethics Committee to Ethics Program

HEC Forum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Davis
Keyword(s):  
Failure To Thrive ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Ethics Program

scholarly journals Are Ethics Committee Members Competent to Consult?

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Hoffmann ◽  
Anita Tarzian ◽  
J. Anne O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthcare Organization ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Ethics Program ◽  
Special Expertise

A significant amount of discussion in the bioethics community has been devoted to the question of whether individuals performing ethics consultations in healthcare institutions have any special expertise. In addition, articles in the lay press have questioned the “added value” that bioethicists bring to ethical dilemmas. Those at the forefront of the bioethics community have argued repeatedly that those doing ethics consults cannot simply be well-intentioned individuals, that some training in bioethics, group process, and facilitation is necessary to competently execute a consult. As one bioethicist commented:if you approach any endeavor as an amateur activity, you will get, in the end, an amateurish version of the activity. Without a sufficient commitment of personnel, time, support, and financial resources, a healthcare organization will get the ‘ethics’ program … it set out to create: an inept, unskilled, inefficient, and highly risky ‘program’ in healthcare ethics and bioethics.

Ethics Committee DX: Failure to Thrive

HEC Forum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Bayley
Keyword(s):  
Failure To Thrive ◽  
Ethics Committee

Nutritional B12 Deficiency in Infants of Vitamin B12-Deficient Mothers

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 328-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oya Halicioglu ◽  
Sezin Asik Akman ◽  
Sumer Sutcuoglu ◽  
Berna Atabay ◽  
Meral Turker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Megaloblastic Anemia ◽  
Maternal Diet ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Serum Vitamin ◽  
Failure To Thrive ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Hematological Evaluation ◽  
Nutritional Vitamin

Aim: Nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in infants may occur because the maternal diet contains inadequate animal products. Clinical presentations of the infants who had nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency were analyzed in this study. Subjects and Methods: Patients with nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency were enrolled in the study between 2003 and 2010. The diagnosis was based on a nutritional history of mothers and infants, clinical findings, hematological evaluation, and low level of serum vitamin B12. Results: Thirty children aged 1 - 21 months constituted the study group. Poverty was the main cause of inadequate consumption of animal products of the mothers. All infants had predominantly breastfed. The most common symptoms were developmental delay, paleness, apathy, lethargy, anorexia, and failure to thrive. Hematological findings were megaloblastic anemia (83.3 %), thrombocytopenia (30 %), and severe anemia (13.3 %). All of the mothers had low serum B12 levels; eight of them had megaloblastic anemia. Conclusion: The unusual clinical manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency may also be seen apart from neurological and hematological findings. Nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency due to maternal deficiency might be a serious health problem in infants. Therefore, screening and supplementation of pregnant and lactating women to prevent infantile vitamin B12 deficiency should be considered.

Failure to Thrive or Thriving in Failure?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Bischoff
Keyword(s):  
Failure To Thrive
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