# Exception from Informed Consent in Emergency Care Research: Reports from a Workshop Addressing “Edge Cases”

## TL;DR

This paper discusses ethical challenges in emergency care research involving critically ill patients and suggests improvements based on a recent workshop.

## Contribution

The paper introduces suggestions for improving emergency care research under the exception from informed consent framework.

## Key findings

- Ethical challenges persist in enrolling critically ill patients in emergency care trials.
- A recent NIH-sponsored workshop proposed ways to improve research under the exception from informed consent framework.

## Abstract

The ethical challenges of enrolling critically ill patients into emergency care clinical trials without their consent remain, despite a 30‐year regulatory framework for conducting research in the emergency setting. In this series introduction, we outline some suggestions to improve studies conducted under the regulatory framework involving an exception from informed consent for emergency care research. These suggestions were made at a recent workshop sponsored by the National of Institutes of Health.