P041 Moral dilemmas and ethical discomfort in paediatric pharmacists

Situation A five week old infant admitted to a tertiary paediatric hospital with coryzal symptoms on a background of Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18) and congenital cardiac disease. Despite her grave prognosis, she was intubated and ventilated. She spent many months in hospital, eventually having surgical repair of her cardiac defect which had little or no effect on her clinical condition. She was discharged to a children’s hospice after seven...