{"id":147,"date":"2017-04-07T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/?p=147"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:40:01","slug":"fgdebate-the-role-of-critical-care-in-cirrhosis-futility-vs-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/2017\/04\/07\/fgdebate-the-role-of-critical-care-in-cirrhosis-futility-vs-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"#FGDebate: The Role of Critical Care in Cirrhosis: Futility vs Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Role of Critical Care in Cirrhosis: Futility vs Opportunity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Tuesday 11th April<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 8-9pm GMT<br \/>\n<strong>Guest:<\/strong> Dr Philip Berry @philabery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/files\/2017\/04\/Philip-Berry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/files\/2017\/04\/Philip-Berry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Philip Berry is a consultant hepatologist at Guy&#8217;s &amp; St Thomas&#8217; NHS Foundation Trust, London. His interests include the management of decompensated cirrhosis and approaches to ethical dilemmas on the ward. He writes a regular blog on medical ethics and the psychology of doctors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying which patients will benefit from escalation to ICU<\/li>\n<li>The place of early palliative care in hepatology<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Rescue&#8217; situations<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol dependence and its influence on medical decision making<\/li>\n<li>Futility thresholds on ICU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span class=\"m4573977010279303919m-1001535001240216814729302214-17032017\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Role of Critical Care in Cirrhosis: Futility vs Opportunity? Date: Tuesday 11th April Time: 8-9pm GMT Guest: Dr Philip Berry @philabery &nbsp; Philip Berry is a consultant hepatologist at Guy&#8217;s &amp; St Thomas&#8217; NHS Foundation Trust, London. His interests include the management of decompensated cirrhosis and approaches to ethical dilemmas on the ward. He [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/2017\/04\/07\/fgdebate-the-role-of-critical-care-in-cirrhosis-futility-vs-opportunity\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/fg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}