Ethics in intensive care medicine 

 -  Springer  2023 
 - xx, 173 pages :  24cms 
 - Lessons from the ICU .
<br/><br/>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. --<br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783031293894 (hbk)