We have previously written about some of the remarkable recoveries that traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims have made after being enrolled in clinical trials using the pregnancy hormone progesterone. One key catch in those progesterone treatment cases was that a family member of the victims gave consent to doctors to include their loved ones in those trials. As doctors continue to study whether giving a patient progesterone could prevent further neurologic damage, what does that mean for TBI victims who arrive in emergency rooms unconscious without any family members who can speak on their behalf? On June 8, the Boston Globe reported that a group of Boston doctors is proposing to join a study that would provide emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victims’ consent for that very reason. “We have a devastating disease that causes tremendous lifelong disability for people around the country and around the…
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