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Jackson S, Hunter J, Van Norman GA. Ethical Principles Do Not Support Mandatory Preanesthesia Pregnancy Screening Tests: A Narrative Review. Anesth Analg 2024; 138:980-991. [PMID: 37801601 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/08/2023]
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Respect for patient autonomy is a pillar of medical ethics, manifested predominantly through informed consent. Mandatory (routine) nonconsented preoperative urine pregnancy testing does not adequately respect patient autonomy, is potentially coercive, and has the potential to cause harm medically, psychologically, socially, and financially. Inaccuracies in pregnancy testing can result in false-positive and false-negative results, especially in early pregnancy. There is substantial scientific evidence that anesthesia is not harmful to the fetus, raising the question of whether pregnancy testing provides substantial benefit to the patient. Not performing a preanesthesia pregnancy test has not been associated with significant medicolegal consequences. We review the ethical implications of mandatory preanesthesia pregnancy testing in light of these facts.
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- Stephen Jackson
- Department of Anesthesiology, Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, California
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Van Norman GA. Off-Label Use vs Off-Label Marketing: Part 2: Off-Label Marketing-Consequences for Patients, Clinicians, and Researchers. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2023; 8:359-370. [PMID: 37034284 PMCID: PMC10077121 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2022.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Address for correspondence: Dr Gail Van Norman, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, 2601 W Boston Street, Seattle, Washington 98199, USA.
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Van Norman GA. Off-Label Use vs Off-Label Marketing of Drugs: Part 1: Off-Label Use-Patient Harms and Prescriber Responsibilities. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2023; 8:224-233. [PMID: 36908673 PMCID: PMC9998554 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2022.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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Once medical drugs and devices are approved for marketing by the FDA they can legally be used for purposes and in ways other than the ones for which they have been tested and approved. However, it is illegal for manufacturers to advertise or promote such unapproved uses of the drugs and devices. Part 1 of this review focuses on off-label use of FDA-approved therapies. Part 2 addresses illegal off-label marketing of drugs and devices. While off-label use can be beneficial to patients, unless carefully undertaken off label use may undermine the important safety mission of the FDA, can expose patients to elevated risks without proven benefits (or possibly no benefit), and can reduce motivation of companies to study the safety and risks of off-label use of therapies. These problems are further amplified when off-label use occurs among very vulnerable patient populations such as the elderly, patients with mental health disorders, pregnant women and pediatric patients. This review considers ethical issues in off-label use, as well as important steps for physicians considering an off-label prescription of a drug or device.
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Van Norman GA. Data Safety and Monitoring Boards Should Be Required for Both Early- and Late-Phase Clinical Trials. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2021; 6:887-896. [PMID: 34869954 PMCID: PMC8617574 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2021.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Address for correspondence: Dr Gail A. Van Norman, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, 2601 West Boston Street, Seattle, Washington 98199, USA.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019) pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to regulatory organizations, the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, and the publishing industry. This Translational Perspectives paper attempts to highlight some of the challenges and perils of moving extraordinarily fast in an effort to save human lives in the midst of a global pandemic. As with the development of all new therapeutic approaches, it will take time to assess the risks and benefits of developing new therapies at "warp speed".
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Van Norman GA. Limitations of Animal Studies for Predicting Toxicity in Clinical Trials: Part 2: Potential Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Preclinical Trials. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2020; 5:387-397. [PMID: 32363250 PMCID: PMC7185927 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Dramatically rising costs in drug development are in large part because of the high failure rates in clinical phase trials. The poor correlation of animal studies to human toxicity and efficacy have led many developers to question the value of requiring animal studies in determining which drugs should enter in-human trials. Part 1 of this 2-part series examined some of the data regarding the lack of concordance between animal toxicity studies and human trials, as well as some of the potential reasons behind it. This second part of the series focuses on some alternatives to animal trials (hereafter referred to as animal research) as well as current regulatory discussions and developments regarding such alternatives.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Suhre W, Van Norman GA. Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation at End of Life: Defining Death. Anesthesiol Clin 2020; 38:231-246. [PMID: 32008655 DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2019.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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End-of-life vital organ transplantation involves singular ethical issues, because survival of the donor is impossible, and organ retrieval is ideally as close to the death of the donor as possible to minimize organ ischemic time. Historical efforts to define death have been met with confusion and discord. Fifty years on, the Harvard criteria for brain death continue to be problematic and now face significant legislative efforts to limit their authority.
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- Wendy Suhre
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 356540, 1959 Northeast Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Bioethics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Van Norman GA. Limitations of Animal Studies for Predicting Toxicity in Clinical Trials: Is it Time to Rethink Our Current Approach? JACC Basic Transl Sci 2019; 4:845-854. [PMID: 31998852 PMCID: PMC6978558 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2019.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Animal testing is used in pharmaceutical and industrial research to predict human toxicity, and yet analysis suggests that animal models are poor predictors of drug safety in humans. The cost of animal research is high-in dollars, delays in drug approval, and in the loss of potentially beneficial drugs for human use. Human subjects have been harmed in the clinical testing of drugs that were deemed safe by animal studies. Increasingly, investigators are questioning the scientific merit of animal research. This review discusses issues in using animals to predict human toxicity in pharmaceutical development. Part 1 focuses on scientific concerns over the validity of animal research. Part 2 will discuss alternatives to animal research and their validation and use in production of human pharmaceuticals.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Phase II clinical studies represent a critical point in determining drug costs, and phase II is a poor predictor of drug success: >30% of drugs entering phase II studies fail to progress, and >58% of drugs go on to fail in phase III. Adaptive clinical trial design has been proposed as a way to reduce the costs of phase II testing by providing earlier determination of futility and prediction of phase III success, reducing overall phase II and III trial sizes, and shortening overall drug development time. This review examines issues in phase II testing and adaptive trial design.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Shah AC, Ma K, Faraoni D, Oh DCS, Rooke GA, Van Norman GA. Self-reported functional status predicts post-operative outcomes in non-cardiac surgery patients with pulmonary hypertension. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0201914. [PMID: 30114222 PMCID: PMC6095504 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) is associated with increased post-procedure morbidity and mortality. Pre-procedure echocardiography (ECHO) is a widely used tool for evaluation of these patients, but its accuracy in predicting post-procedure outcomes is unproven. Self-reported exercise tolerance has not been evaluated for operative risk stratification of PHTN patients. Objective We analyzed whether self-reported exercise tolerance predicts outcomes (hospital length-of-stay [LOS], mortality and morbidity) in PHTN patients (WHO Class I–V) undergoing anesthesia and surgery. Methods and findings We reviewed 550 non-cardiac, non-obstetric procedures performed on 370 PHTN patients at a single institution between 2007 and 2013. All patients had cardiac ECHO documented within 1 year prior to the procedure. Pre-procedure comorbidities and ECHO data were collected. Functional status (< or ≥ 4 metabolic equivalents of task [METs]) was assigned based on responses to standard patient interview questions during the pre-anesthesia clinic visit. Multiple logistic regression was used to develop a risk score model (Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Risk Score; PHORS) and determine its value in predicting post-procedure outcomes. In an adjusted model, functional status <4 METs was independently associated with a LOS >7 days (p < .003), as were higher ASA class (p < .002), open surgical approach (p < .002), procedure duration > 2 hours (p < .001), and the absence of systemic hypertension (p = .012). PHORS Score ≥2 was associated with an increased 30-day major complication rate (28.7% vs. 19.2%; p < 0.001) and ICU admission rate (8.6% s 2.8%; p = .007), but no statistical difference in hospital readmissions rate (17.6% vs. 14.0%; p = .29), or mortality (3.5% vs. 1.4%; p = .75). Similar ECHO findings did not further improve outcome prediction. Conclusions Poor functional status is associated with severe PHTN and predicts increased LOS and post-procedure complications in patients with moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension with different etiologies. A risk assessment model predicts increased LOS with fair accuracy. A thorough evaluation of underlying etiologies of PHTN should be undertaken in every patient.
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- Aalap C. Shah
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Van Norman GA. Expanded Patient Access to Investigational New Devices: Review of Emergency and Nonemergency Expanded Use, Custom, and 3D-Printed Devices. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2018; 3:533-544. [PMID: 30175277 PMCID: PMC6115642 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2018.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Class III medical devices can take from 3 to 7 years. Although this is shorter than times for drug approvals, patients with serious or life-threatening diseases and disorders may not have time to wait for device approval to access needed treatments. The FDA has a number of pathways, similar to drug approval processes, for expanded use of unapproved medical devices in patients for whom no reasonable alternative therapy is available. Additionally, the FDA regulates the manufacture and use of "custom" medical devices-those made for use by 1 specific patient. With the advent of 3-dimensional printing and bioprinting, new rules are evolving to address concerns that lines may be blurred between "custom" treatments and unregulated human experimentation.
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Key Words
- 3D printing
- 3D, 3-dimensional
- AM, additive manufacturing
- CDE, custom device exemption
- CUR, compassionate use request
- DBS, deep brain stimulator(s)
- EA, expanded access
- FDA device approval
- FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- HDE
- HDE, humanitarian device exemption
- IDE, investigational device exemption
- IRB, institutional review board
- OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder
- PMA, pre-market approval
- TIDE, treatment investigational device exemption
- compassionate use
- custom medical devices
- device regulations
- expanded access
- medical devices
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, Washington
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Van Norman GA. Expanding Patient Access to Investigational New Drugs: Overview of Intermediate and Widespread Treatment Investigational New Drugs, and Emergency Authorization in Public Health Emergencies. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2018; 3:403-414. [PMID: 30062226 PMCID: PMC6058931 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2018.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Individual patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating diseases can petition the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through their physicians to have expanded access (EA) to drugs that are in clinical trials but have not reached full FDA approval (the "single-patient" investigational new drug [IND] application). Additionally, recent state and federal laws-so-called "right to try legislation"-allow patients to approach drug companies directly for access prior to FDA approval. While these pathways provide potential access for individual patients to investigational drugs, different EA pathways permit entire groups of certain patients to access investigational drugs prior to FDA approval. This review focuses on special categories of EA INDs intended for multiple patients-the intermediate-group IND and the widespread-treatment IND-as well as emergency authorization for use of investigational drugs and biological products (e.g., vaccines) in public health emergencies.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Van Norman GA. Expanding Patient Access to Investigational Drugs: Single Patient Investigational New Drug and the "Right to Try". JACC Basic Transl Sci 2018; 3:280-293. [PMID: 30062214 PMCID: PMC6059004 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2017.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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With drug approval times taking an average of 8 years from entry into clinical trials to full U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, patients with life-threatening and severely debilitating disease and no reasonable therapeutic options are advocating for expanded access (EA) to investigational drugs prior to approval. Special investigational new drug (IND) application categories allow patients who meet specific criteria to receive treatment with non-approved drugs. The FDA approves over 99% of all single-patient INDs, providing emergency approval within hours, and non-emergency approval within an average of 4 days. "Right-to-try" laws passed in 38 states would allow patients to bypass FDA processes altogether, but contain controversial provisions that some claim risk more harm than benefit to desperate and vulnerable patients. This review focuses on FDA EA to non-approved drugs through a special category of IND-the single-patient IND-and "right-to-try" (R2T) access outside of the FDA.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Washington
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Van Norman GA. Overcoming the Declining Trends in Innovation and Investment in Cardiovascular Therapeutics: Beyond EROOM's Law. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2017; 2:613-625. [PMID: 30062175 PMCID: PMC6058942 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2017.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Eroom's law (Moore's law spelled backwards), describes adverse trends towards declining innovation and rising costs of drug development over the last several decades. Therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) appear to have been particularly sensitive to these trends. Thirty-three percent fewer CVD therapeutics were approved between 2000 and 2009 compared to the previous decade, and the number of CVD drugs starting all clinical trial stages declined in both absolute and relative numbers between 1990 and 2012. In the last 5 years, drugs to treat CVD disease comprised just 6% of all new drug launches. This review discusses the decline in CVD therapeutics, the reasons behind it, and ways in which this trend is being or might be addressed.
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Key Words
- CVD, cardiovascular disease
- Eroom’s law
- FDA, Food and Drug Administration
- NIH, National Institutes of Health
- OD, orphan drug
- PPMD, parent project muscular dystrophy
- R&D, research and development
- RCT, randomized controlled trials
- ROI, return on investment
- SDLT, severely debilitating or life-threatening
- TB, tuberculosis
- drug approval
- innovation
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Decisions to forego life-sustaining treatments are complex, and disagreements between physicians and patients occur. This review discusses recent findings regarding what factors influence physicians and patients or their surrogates in these decisions and considers whether futility arguments regarding life-sustaining treatments should be abandoned. RECENT FINDINGS Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is one paradigm in the literature for studying end-of-life decision-making. Outcomes for cardiopulmonary resuscitation are poor, and physicians tend to over-rely on tacit versus evidence-based knowledge for resuscitation decisions. Physician decisions are often inherently biased regarding elderly and intellectually impaired patients. Patient decisions regarding life-sustaining treatments are poorly understood by physicians, and also include inherent bias against the elderly and intellectually impaired. Although patients and their decision-makers frequently incorporate religious or spiritual beliefs in their decisions, physicians rarely discuss these factors with them. Defining 'futility' is problematic, and futility arguments have limited utility in clinical end-of-life treatment discussions. SUMMARY Further research is needed about factors that affect both physicians and patients with regard to forgoing life-sustaining interventions. Physicians need more information regarding religious/spiritual preferences of patients and decision-makers. 'Futility' arguments in end-of-life decision-making are flawed and should probably be abandoned.
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and as Adj Professor of Bioethics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Van Norman GA, Eisenkot R. Technology Transfer: From the Research Bench to Commercialization: Part 2: The Commercialization Process. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2017; 2:197-208. [PMID: 30167567 PMCID: PMC6113541 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2017.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Technology transfer (TT) encompasses a variety of activities that move academic discoveries into the public sector. Part 1 of this 2-part series explored steps in acquisition of intellectual property (IP) rights (e.g., patents and copyrights). Part 2 focuses on processes of commercialization, including the technology transfer office, project development toward commercialization, and licensing either through the establishment of startup companies (venture capital-backed or otherwise) or directly to industry. In private industry, TT often occurs through the sale of IP, products, or services, but in universities, the majority of TT occurs through the licensing of IP.
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Key Words
- COI, conflict of interest
- CRADA, cooperative research and development agreement
- IP, intellectual property
- MTA, materials transfer agreement
- NIH, National Institutes of Health
- SBIR, small business innovation research (grant)
- SRA, sponsored research agreement
- STTR, small business technology transfer research (grant)
- TT, technology transfer
- TTO, technology transfer office
- VC, venture capital
- commercialization
- licensing
- technology transfer
- venture capital
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- CoMotion, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Van Norman GA, Eisenkot R. Technology Transfer: From the Research Bench to Commercialization: Part 1: Intellectual Property Rights-Basics of Patents and Copyrights. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2017; 2:85-97. [PMID: 30167556 PMCID: PMC6113542 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2017.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Progress in medicine hinges on the successful translation of basic science discoveries into new medical devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics. "Technology transfer" is the process by which new innovations flow from the basic research bench to commercial entities and then to public use. In academic institutions, intellectual property rights do not usually fall automatically to the individual inventor per se, but most often are the property of the institution. Technology transfer offices are tasked with seeing to it that such intellectual property rights are properly managed and commercialized. This 2-part series explores the technology transfer process from invention to commercialization. Part 1 reviews basic aspects of intellectual property rights, primarily patents and copyrights. Part 2 will discuss the ways in which inventions become commercialized through startup companies and licensing arrangements with industry players.
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- CoMotion, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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The regulation of medical drugs and devices involves competing goals of assuring safety and efficacy while providing rapid movement of innovative therapies through the investigative and regulatory processes as quickly as possible. The United States and the European Union approach these challenges in different ways. Whereas the United States has always relied on a strictly centralized process through 1 agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Commission synchronized the regulations of 28 different countries as they combined to create the European Union. The FDA historically developed as a consumer protection agency, whereas the regulations from the European Commission arose out of a need to harmonize inter-state commercial interests while preserving national "autonomy." Thus, whereas the FDA has the advantages of centralization and common rules, the European Union regulates medical drug and device approvals through a network of centralized and decentralized agencies throughout its member states. This study explores some of the similarities and differences in European and U.S. regulation of drugs and devices, and discusses challenges facing each.
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Key Words
- BMJ, British Medical Journal
- CE, Conformité Européenne
- DAD, drugs and devices
- EC, European Commission
- EMA
- EMA, European Medicines Agency
- EU, European Union
- European Commission
- FDA
- FDA, Food and Drug Administration
- MHRA, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
- NB, Notified Bodies
- PMA, pre-market approval
- device approval
- drug approval
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- Gail A. Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Over the last 150 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has evolved from a small division of the U.S. Patent Office to 1 of the largest consumer protection agencies in the world. Its mission includes ensuring that new medical treatments reach the public as quickly as possible while simultaneously ensuring that new treatments are both safe and effective. In the face of urgent consumer need, the FDA has faced criticism that its processes are too lengthy and costly and that the time to new drug release is significantly longer in the United States than in other Western countries. Calls from the public to loosen FDA regulations to facilitate more rapid approval of drugs and devices have been countered by the occurrence of patient harm and deaths after some approved drugs have reached the marketplace. New drug and device approval in the United States take an average of 12 and 7 years, respectively, from pre-clinical testing to approval. Costs for development of medical devices run into millions of dollars, and a recent study suggests that the entire cost for a new drug is in excess of $1 billion. For investigators seeking approval for new drugs and devices, FDA processes can be formidable. This 2-part series is intended to provide an overview of the steps involved in bringing new drugs and devices through the FDA process. Part 1 concerns the process of new drug approvals. Part 2 continues with approval of medical devices.
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine and an adjunct professor of biomedical ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and an associate editor of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
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Van Norman GA. Five Days at Memorial. Anesth Analg 2014. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000000297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Informed consent in elderly patients presents many ethical and legal challenges. Most aging patients are competent to provide consent for medical care. The purpose of informed consent is to promote autonomy, to protect a patient from undesired treatment, and to help the patient to make appropriate medical care decisions that correlate with his or her personal values. A surrogate decision-maker should be sought for an incompetent patient. Advance directives are legally and ethically binding tools by which patients can express their decisions regarding medical care before they lose capacity to do so. Discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders is part of informed consent, and patients' wishes regarding resuscitation in the operating room should be respected. Surrogate consent for participation in research is not necessarily allowed by IRB approval and research protocols.
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- Yulia Ivashkov
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
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Palmer SK, Van Norman GA, Jackson SL. Routine Pregnancy Testing Before Elective Anesthesia Is Not an American Society of Anesthesiologists Standard. Anesth Analg 2009; 108:1715-6; author reply 1616. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819b34cf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Affiliate Associate Professor, Biomedical History and Ethics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, (Van Norman) Department of Anesthesiology, Providence Milwaukie Hospital, Milwaukie, OR, (ASA Ethics Committee Member 1992-2005 and Chair 2004-5) (Palmer) Department of Anesthesiology, Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, CA (Jackson)
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Demand for vital organs for transplantation continues to increase, and the supply of organs has not kept up with demand. The use of organs harvested immediately after death from patients who have requested withdrawal of life support may be one way to increase supply. Anesthesiologists frequently become involved with such 'non-heart-beating' organ donations when they are asked to withdraw life support from patients in the operating room and monitor them, providing terminal care, until death ensues. RECENT FINDINGS Despite thorough debate in the literature and reviews by the Institute of Medicine, ethical controversies remain concerning the use of non-heart-beating donors. Further, non-heart-beating organ donation has failed to produce the windfall of vital organs for transplant predicted by optimistic early estimates. There is agreement in the medical specialties of palliative care, intensive care medicine, internal medicine, and family practice that competency in end-of-life care requires specialty training. Most anesthesiologists are poorly qualified to carry out the tasks involved in non-heart-beating donation, and may even potentially compromise care. SUMMARY Ethical controversies in the use of non-heart-beating donors remain despite thorough review. No physician should be involved in withdrawal of life support in non-heart-beating donors, unless specialty trained in end-of-life care. Most anesthesiologists should not be involved in non-heart-beating organ donations; potential exceptions include those with specialty training or experienced in palliative care or intensive care medicine.
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98053, USA.
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Van Norman GA. Another matter of life and death: what every anesthesiologist should know about the ethical, legal, and policy implications of the non-heart-beating cadaver organ donor. Anesthesiology 2003; 98:763-73. [PMID: 12606924 DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200303000-00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Gail A Van Norman
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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Van Norman GA, Patel MA, Chandler W, Vocelka C. Effects of hemofiltration on serum aprotinin levels in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2000. [DOI: 10.1053/cr.2000.5860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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