Online Continuing Education Courses

Ethical Considerations

• Present the basic principles of medical ethics as they relate to the swallowing-impaired patient
• Discuss the risks and bene???ts of alternative types of feeding
• Highlight the differences between factors that predict aspiration and those that predict aspiration pneumonia
• Present an approach for weaning from feeding tubes
• Present examples of ethical dilemmas resulting from the placement or retention of alternative forms of feeding