CPR has become default treatment for all patients in cardiac arrest. The history of how this happened demonstrates the power of CPT coding.

This series of 3 paintings of figures in a bath explores emotional responses of persons experiencing or responding to others’ moral distress. Intricately tied together and connected through time and space, the bodies represented suggest a complex web of relationships between clinicians and patients.

When evaluating a 10-year-old with leukemia and chemo-induced heart failure for VAD placement, a team considers what to do.

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Life extension requires careful consideration of resource scarcity, justice, and what, if anything, is intrinsic to the experiences we define as human.

How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?

When weighing potential benefits of technological advancement against risks of harm, clinicians should prioritize duties to patients.

Devices alter heart failure etiology, and specialists must navigate more ethical complexity than ever. How should curricula evolve to help them respond?

Patients have a right to decline or withdraw LVADs. Informed consent and shared decision making is not easy, however, with treatments that are high risk, high reward.

Case analysis illuminates strategies clinicians can use to reconcile competing duties to patients on ECMO.