“A student volunteered for a phase 1 clinical trial of a new anaesthetic.He went into cardiac arrest and was left with brain damage.”
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PRIMUMnon nocere First, do no harm. There is little room for ambiguity in the principle that governs all medical practitioners, but the same rule does not necessarily apply when it comes to clinical trials. For example, in one recent trial the 73 patients in the placebo group were put under general anaesthetic and had a small femoral incision made for no reason other than to provide a control for those having a genuine surgical procedure. Some members of this control group had serious, albeit transient, adverse events hardly what you expect from a...
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