Pediatric Septic Shock and Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments
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This article was originally published in the Spring 2020 Issue of Critical Connections.
This Exploring Ethics case study is about a 19-month-old male infant with hypereosinophilia due to hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after unrelated-donor allogenic stem cell transplant. Before the transplant, Marcus’s course was complicated by diffuse cerebral ischemic infarcts, bronchiolitis, necrotizing pneumonia, Clostridium difficile colitis, Epstein-Barr viremia, and disseminated Candida infection.
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Alexander A. Kon