Ethical and best practice care of emerging adults at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease
- Cost: R740 for the full Ethics Series
- CPD Points: 2 Ethics CEUs
- Retries: 3 attempts
- CPD accredited in South Africa
- Free certification
- Access on desktop, tablet and mobile
- Access from anywhere
- No time limits, work at your own pace
Prof Liesl Zühlke, paediatric cardiologist and vice-president of the South African Medical Research Council (SAM) addresses the challenges facing the clinician as regards the autonomy of the emerging adult patient who needs to transition from paediatric to adult healthcare.
Against the background of the very recent release by the American Heart Association (AHA) of its views on managing cardiovascular care in this transition, Prof Zühlke describes the clinician’s ethical role in achieving social justice in allocating CV resources to these patients in South Africa and how to empower the adolescent throughout this process.
Learning Objectives
You will learn:
- To understand the 4 pillars of ethical medicine; beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice, particularly as these pillars relate to emerging adults and autonomy transfer
- To develop the concept of justice within the social environment of SA adolescents with heart disease
- To reduce the likelihood of patients experiencing interruption of their care as he/she moves into the adult care system
- To encourage the development of autonomy in a young adult with existing heart disease, thereby assisting them to take responsibility for their ongoing health
- To avoid maleficence by encouraging the patient’s voice and participation in his/her planned care options
Meet our expert
Prof Liesl Zühlke
Vice-President Extramural Research & Internal Portfolio
SAMRC
Professor Liesl Zühlke, a paediatric cardiologist and leader in cardiovascular medicine has been appointed the SAMRC Vice-President, Extramural Research & Internal Portfolio.
Prof Zühlke joins the SAMRC from the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she was the Acting Deputy Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences, a paediatric cardiologist in the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at Red Cross Children’s Hospital, and the Director of the Children’s Heart Disease Research Unit. She will retain her UCT affiliation and her research endeavours as a member of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at UCT.
Her research spans congenital and rheumatic heart disease, HIV in adolescents, grown-up congenital heart disease and cardiac disease in women of childbearing age. She is NRF (C1-2016)-rated, with an H-Index of 44 with well over 32 000 citations, eight published book chapters, has edited two books and published 158 articles, including in New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal.
