Medical Futility & Surrogate Decision Making at ICCEC 2026

Here are some of the sessions at ICCEC 2026 that focus on medical futility, surrogate decision making, supported decision making, code status, conscientious objection, and related issues. 

Missing Policies and Unbalanced Ethics Committees Threaten Fairness in Potentially Inappropriate Treatment Decisions

Bridging Ingroup/Outgroup Divides in Requests for Nonbeneficial Treatment: Rethinking Best Practices in Clinical Ethics Consultation

Ethical Considerations and Multidisciplinary Perspectives: A Panel Discussion on the Provision and Discontinuation of ECMO Therapy

Supporting Supported Decision-Making (SDM): The Need to Educate Patients, Supporters, and Clinicians

Surrogate Decision-Makers as Quasi-Patients: Resolving the Capacity Question

A Defense and Application of Secular Institutional Conscientious Objection

Rethinking Advance Healthcare Planning: Concise, Precise and Patient-Centered

Preventing Unintended Resuscitation of DNR Patients: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative