Ethical Practice in Kidney Care - Managing Unexpected Challenges

Session Description:
This session will explore the ethical implications of providing kidney care in settings that may be unfamiliar to many attendees. Each speaker will briefly examine the ethical challenges of decision-making and care provision in specific contexts, and discuss how application of common ethical values and principles in novel circumstances may result in unexpected outcomes. Specifically, issues that arise when parents decline dialysis on behalf of children in resource limited settings, when kidney care is provided to refugees during crisis periods, and when determining eligibility criteria for participation in pig kidney xenotransplant trials will be considered.

Learning Objectives:
1. Be familiar with ethical considerations that may arise in resource limited settings when parents may decline dialysis on behalf of their children; in providing kidney care to refugees during crisis periods; and in determining eligibility criteria for participation in pig kidney xenotransplant trials. 2. Critically reflect on key contextual factors that may influence ethical policy and practice in kidney care in a range of settings. 3. Discuss the importance of ethical aspects of decision making in health policy and clinical practice.