The ACCM Ethics Committee serves the College and all critical care professionals by addressing the special ethical issues related to care for critically ill and injured patients.

Contacts:

ACCM Ethics Committee Chair
Brenda Fahy, MD, FCCM
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, US
bgfahy@email.uky.edu

ACCM Ethics Committee Vice-Chair
Alexander Kon, MD, FCCM
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA, US
aakon@ucdavis.edu

SCCM Staff
Trish Glover
Program Development Manager
+1 847.493.6990
pglover@sccm.org

Ginger Johnston
Program Development and Professional Affairs Coordinator 
+1 847.493.6410
vjohnston@sccm.org

Mission Statement of the ACCM/SCCM Ethics Committee

"To identify ethical issues which are particularly relevant and important to critical care medicine; develop strategies to recognize a consensus concerning ethical issues in critical care medicine; develop a methodology to disperse knowledge concerning ethical issues to critical care medicine professionals and to implement change; and develop a process of interaction with other organizations that share ethical concerns in critical care areas."

The committee reports to the Chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.


Additional Links

Now available to professionals and the public are various resources relevant to critical care ethics:

• End of Life (EOL) decisions are of primary importance to patients, families, and their critical care providers. The Committee offers a set of resources from the EOL Page on the LearnICU Web site.
  
• Patient and Family Resources a brochure regarding care at the end of life is available free on the Society's patient and family Web page, MyICUCare.
  
• Professionalism and Ethics (LearnICU) provides additional learning resources for the critical care clinician.