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Ethics in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

  • 2 Edición - 11 de julio de 2003
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Heather Draper, Wendy E. Scott
  • Idioma: Inglés

A group of expert contributors have provided perspectives on areas of common concern to the anaesthetist and intensivist, and nursing staff, giving both the clinical and… Leer más

Descripción

A group of expert contributors have provided perspectives on areas of common concern to the anaesthetist and intensivist, and nursing staff, giving both the clinical and theoretical perspective. By understanding the underlying principles, the reader will be able to create their own framework from which to reach a decision. It is anticipated that the arguments given may challenge the reader's personal ethical stance. Those who are new to ethics will find the examples given help them to see how these underlying principles are put into everyday practice.

Puntos claves

  • Expert contributors from around the world discuss ethical issues in anaesthesia and intensive care in all of the commonly encountered areas such as:
  • Consent
  • Patient confidentiality
  • Fitness to practice
  • Whistle-blowing on colleagues
  • Clinical research
  • Maternal-foetal conflicts
  • Children
  • Palliative care
  • Withdrawing and withholding therapy
  • Euthanasia
  • Infectious disease control
  • Each chapter focuses on the needs of the clinician, presenting both the underlying principles and how these are used in practice
  • Real cases are used to illustrate the principles, and to highlight how these are interpreted in each case

    • Índice

    1. Introduction
    Heather Draper

    2. Consent and Adult Patients in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
    Alan Aitkenhead

    3. Fitness to Practice, Self-regulation and Clinical Governance in Anaesthesia
    David Hatch

    4. Confidentiality, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
    Catherine Hale

    5. Cultural Relativism, Tolerance and Respect for Autonomy
    Andrew Fagan

    6. Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting the Treatment of Children
    Nicholas Pace

    7. Clinical Research
    Mike Harmer

    8. Research Ethics
    Richard Nicholson

    9. Evidence Based Medicine and Anaesthesia
    Lucy Frith

    10. Maternal Foetal Conflicts and the Anaesthetists' Role
    Wendy Scott, Heather Draper

    11. Resource Allocation in Critical Care
    Richard Wenstone, June Jones

    12. Ethical Management in Intensive Care
    June Jones

    13. Withdrawing and Withholding Life Sustaining Therapy and Euthanasia
    Heather Draper

    14. Brain Death and the Cadaveric Organ Donor
    David Lamb

    15. The Acceptability of Routine Testing for Blood Borne Communicable Diseases
    Rebecca Bennett

    16. Teaching and Assessing Medical Ethics
    Lisa Schwartz

    17. Ethical Issues in Private Practice
    Chris Bareham, Tom Sorrell

    Detalles del producto

    • Edición: 2
    • Última edición
    • Publicado: 11 de julio de 2003
    • Idioma: Inglés

    Sobre los editores

    HD

    Heather Draper

    Afiliaciones y experiencia
    Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, The Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham

    WS

    Wendy E. Scott

    Afiliaciones y experiencia
    Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK