Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), Boston Children's Hospital

Pediatrics

Robert Truog practices Pediatrics. He went to medical school at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a top medical university. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is ranked 13/7 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Fellow (FCCM)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Robert Truog has written publications. He has 100 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Relationship between the neurotoxicity and phospholipase A activity of beta-bungarotoxin.'

Publications

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• Medically Inappropriate or Futile Treatment: Deliberation and Justification.
• Prenatal Decision-Making for Myelomeningocele: Can We Minimize Bias and Variability?
• Ethical considerations surrounding lethal injection--reply.
• Physicians, medical ethics, and execution by lethal injection.
• The Meaning of Brain Death: A Different View.
• Measuring the Quality of Dying and Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting: The Clinician PICU-QODD.
• Defining death: the importance of scientific candor and transparency.
• "Apologies" from pathologists: why, when, and how to say "sorry" after committing a medical error.
• The Dead-Donor Rule and the Future of Organ Donation.
• Talking with patients about other clinicians' errors.
• Futile Treatments in Intensive Care Units.
• Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
• Should patients receive general anesthesia prior to extubation at the end of life?*.
• Tolstoy on transparency and authority in end-of-life decision-making.
• Rationing in the intensive care unit: To disclose or disguise?
• Death and legal fictions.
• Are there some things doctors just shouldn't do?
• Do-not-resuscitate orders in evolution: Matching medical interventions with patient goals.
• Counterpoint: are donors after circulatory death really dead, and does it matter? No and not really.
• Brain perfusion scans to diagnose brain death: more than meets the eye.
• The dead donor rule: can it withstand critical scrutiny?
• Translating research on communication in the intensive care unit into effective educational strategies.
• Organ donors after circulatory determination of death: not necessarily dead, and it does not necessarily matter.
• Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR?
• Screening mammography and the "r" word.
• Counterpoint: The Texas advance directives act is ethically flawed: medical futility disputes must be resolved by a fair process.
• Controversies about brain death.
• The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President'...
• Difficult conversations: improving communication skills and relational abilities in health care.
• Anesthesiology trainees face ethical, practical, and relational challenges in obtaining informed consent.
• Anesthesiologist management of perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders: a simulation-based experiment.
• Assessment of communication skills and self-appraisal in the simulated environment: feasibility of multirater feedback with gap analysis.
• Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations.
• The dead donor rule and organ transplantation.
• An apology for Socratic bioethics.
• Not euthanasia, simply compassionate clinical care.
• Consent for organ donation--balancing conflicting ethical obligations.
• Physicians and execution--highlights from a discussion of lethal injection.
• Ethical assessment of pediatric research protocols.
• Futility: a concept in evolution.
• Difficult conversations in health care: cultivating relational learning to address the hidden curriculum.
• The controversy over artificial hydration and nutrition.
• Brain death - too flawed to endure, too ingrained to abandon.
• Reflections on love, fear, and specializing in the impossible.
• Toward interventions to improve end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit.
• Proposed quality measures for palliative care in the critically ill: a consensus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Critical Care Workgroup.
• Futility--from hospital policies to state laws.
• Sudden traumatic death in children: "we did everything, but your child didn't survive".
• Do differences in the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists positions on the ethics of maternal-fetal intervention...
• Appropriate use of artificial nutrition and hydration.
• Improving the quality of end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: parents' priorities and recommendations.
• The truth about "donation after cardiac death".
• End-of-life care: is euthanasia the answer?
• Refusal of hydration and nutrition: irrelevance of the "artificial" vs "natural" distinction.
• Organ donation without brain death?
• New and lingering controversies in pediatric end-of-life care.
• International differences in end-of-life attitudes in the intensive care unit: results of a survey.
• The ethics of organ donation by living donors.
• Increasing the participation of children in clinical research.
• Variability in end-of-life care--how much is too much?
• Will ethical requirements bring critical care research to a halt?
• Informed consent: an end or a means? A response to Miller and Moreno.
• Practicing physicians and the role of family surrogate decision making.
• Are organs personal property or a societal resource?
• Soliciting organs on the Internet.
• Decision making and satisfaction with care in the pediatric intensive care unit: findings from a controlled clinical trial.
• Role of brain death and the dead-donor rule in the ethics of organ transplantation.
• Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stay.
• Conflict in the care of patients with prolonged stay in the ICU: types, sources, and predictors.
• Results of a clinical trial on care improvement for the critically ill.
• Attitudes and preferences of intensivists regarding the role of family interests in medical decision making for incompetent patients.
• Do-not-resuscitate order after 25 years.
• Organ donation after cardiac death: what role for anesthesiologists?
• Dying patients as research subjects.
• A bridge to nowhere.
• Guidelines for perioperative do-not-resuscitate policies.
• Respiratory support in spinal muscular atrophy type I: a survey of physician practices and attitudes.
• Parental perspectives on end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit.
• CPR-not-indicated and futility.
• Randomized controlled trials of innovative therapies: are they ethical?
• To breathe or not to breathe.
• Beyond futility: commentary.
• The "ethics of evidence" and randomized controlled trials.
• Ethical issues in pediatric anesthesia.
• Sedation before ventilator withdrawal: medical and ethical considerations.
• Brain death and the anencephalic newborn.
• Perioperative management of diabetes insipidus in children.
• Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College [corrected] of Critical Care Medicine.
• The conversation around CPR/DNR should not be revived--at least for now.
• Moral fictions and medical ethics.
• When does a nudge become a shove in seeking consent for organ donation?
• Patients and doctors--evolution of a relationship.
• Decapitation and the definition of death.
• Cross-cultural adaptation of an innovative approach to learning about difficult conversations in healthcare.
• Neonatal decision-making: beyond the standard of best interests.
• Intercontinental differences in end-of-life attitudes in the pediatric intensive care unit: results of a worldwide survey.
• Relationship between the neurotoxicity and phospholipase A activity of beta-bungarotoxin.
• A continuum for using placebo interventions in regional anesthesia and analgesia studies.
• End-of-life decision-making in the United States.

Schools

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• University of California At Los Angeles

• University Co

• University Of California Los Angeles

• Harvard University

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FCCM)
• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• UCLA Medical Center
• University of Colorado
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hospital

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• Boston Children's Hospital

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