We were invited to chair a session at the 2022 Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group meeting at St Mary’s Hospital in London. This is a national meeting of research interested PIC clinicians.
Two excellent speakers contributed. Chris Gale is a neonatologist who has led the WHEAT trial, in to feeding neonates around blood transfusions. This uses opt-out consent: there is no signed informed consent for this trial. Lots of ethics to chew over: how do the rights and needs of the population and the individual balance, and is this a logical end point of deferred consent?
Tony Gordon is the UK lead for the REMAP-CAP trial, one of the two blockbuster platform trials which were able to scale up during Covid. How was this done, how was it maintained, and what can we learn in paediatrics?
A great discussion, lots to think about, and maybe a look in to the future?
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