Lack of assent to dental examination in children with intellectual disabilities: Dentists' practices in Europe and ethical issues.

Aim: (1) To determine the repartition of criteria which can be considered as marks of lack of assent by the child with intellectual disabilities from the dentist's point of view and whether that influences the decision to examine the patient or not. (2) To explain the decision of practitioners and determine the ethical implications of these practices.

Methods: An anonymous and structured questionnaire was distributed online using the scenario of a 9-year-old child with moderate cognitive impairment with eight different oppositional behaviours.

Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death of Children at the End of Life: French Physicians' Opinions.

To evaluate physicians' opinions concerning continuous deep sedation until death (CDSUD) and implementation of Claeys-Leonetti; a law intended to be applicable to all patients, but without a specific framework for children thus giving rise to ethically and legally complex situations. The secondary objective was to identify if physicians' characteristics could influence their opinions. This was a national, multicenter, noninterventional cross-sectional survey from January 30, 2020, until March 1, 2020.

[Ethical issues surrounding death in pre-hospital medicine].

Mobile emergency and resuscitation teams are confronted with death on a daily basis. In the home, the management of a death is complex. It raises ethical questions and sometimes destabilizes personal or collective values.