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Ethics in intensive care medicine

Contributor(s): Series: Lessons from the ICUPublication details: Springer 2023Description: xx, 173 pages : 24cmsISBN:
  • 9783031293894 (hbk)
Contents:
Part I. Principles of clinical ethics in intensive care medicine. -- Clinical ethics and ethical principles. -- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (I): Indication. -- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (II): The Patient's Wishes and Consent. -- Part II. Decision-making. -- Inter-professional shared decision-making. -- Shared decision-making with patients and families. -- Cultural diversity. -- Part III. -- Goal of therapy and extent of treatment. -- Life-sustaining therapies: indication, prognostication, and the patient's wishes. -- Limiting life-sustaining therapies. -- Focus topic: resuscitation in the ICU. -- Palliative care in the intensive care unit. -- Part IV - Appropriateness of care Ethical climate and proportionate care. -- Clinical ethics and the law. -- Distributive Justice: Ethics during health care crises. -- Part V -- Ethics in the ICU: The way ahead. -- Making choices in uncertainty. Educating clinicians in clinical ethics.
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Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Library (St Helens and Knowsley) Main Shelves 174.2 MIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SHK00000216

Part I. Principles of clinical ethics in intensive care medicine. -- Clinical ethics and ethical principles. -- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (I): Indication. -- The two pillars of intensive care medicine (II): The Patient's Wishes and Consent. --
Part II. Decision-making. -- Inter-professional shared decision-making. -- Shared decision-making with patients and families. -- Cultural diversity. -- Part III. -- Goal of therapy and extent of treatment. -- Life-sustaining therapies: indication, prognostication, and the patient's wishes. -- Limiting life-sustaining therapies. -- Focus topic: resuscitation in the ICU. -- Palliative care in the intensive care unit. -- Part IV - Appropriateness of care Ethical climate and proportionate care. -- Clinical ethics and the law. -- Distributive Justice: Ethics during health care crises. -- Part V -- Ethics in the ICU: The way ahead. -- Making choices in uncertainty. Educating clinicians in clinical ethics.