Ethics in emergency medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tucson, Ariz. :
Galen Press,
[1995]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- General introduction
- Unique aspects of ethics in emergency medicine
- Legal setting of emergency medicine
- What is ethics?
- An approach to ethical problems in emergency medicine
- Cases and commentaries
- Autonomy and informed consent
- Informed participation in decisions
- The question of competence
- Suicide
- Rights of minors
- Uncertain diagnosis and the uncooperative patient
- A slight postmortem disagreement
- Impaired decision making
- Consent: explicit and presumed
- Education and research
- Research and student exploitation
- Faculty-student relationships
- Paramedic education
- Practicing procedures on the newly dead
- Human subjects in resuscitation research
- Human subjects in trauma research
- Prehospital research and informed consent
- Phase 4 research projects
- Privacy and confidentiality.
- Legal requirements for notification
- Answering questions from "relatives"
- Security of the emergency medical service system radio network
- Police information
- Request for special treatment.
- Potential harm to a third party
- Calling other emergency departments about suspicious patients
- Life-sustaining treatment, emergency department
- Resuscitating a patient with no vital signs
- When not to resuscitate
- Pediatric patients- do we try too hard?
- Community standards for resuscitation, are they valid?
- Organ donation, the uncertain donor
- Organ donation, the willing donor
- A questionable parental request
- Life sustaining treatment- prehospital
- Prehospital do-not-resuscitate orders
- Medical futility
- Disagreement on "optimal" treatment
- Unauthorized lifesaving procedures
- Professional relations
- Nurse-physician relationships
- Conscientious objections (bad orders)
- Telephone orders from local physicians
- Delegating notification of death to others
- Consultation dilemmas
- Referral back to an incompetent primary care provider
- Referral to specialists at another hospital.
- The questionably impaired health care professional
- Relationship to biomedical companies
- Relationship with hospital and community
- Allocation of health care resources.
- The manipulative patient; the irresponsible family; and the nursing home "dump"
- Allocation of resources: social and political factors
- Allocation of resources: Economic factors
- Fee-for-service system of care
- Increased charges for third-party-payer patients
- No payment, adult or child
- "Gatekeeper's" role
- Patient transfers
- Patient-requested laboratory requests
- Quality of care
- Continuous quality improvement and peer review
- Responsibility to monitor and remedy quality-of-care mistakes
- Physicians' attitudes toward patients
- Physician's quality of life vs. patient care
- Solo nurse in the emergency department
- Treating cases beyond your abilities
- Telephone consultations with health care providers or others
- Physician calls re: Do-not-resuscitate orders
- Denial of antipregnancy prophylaxis to a rape victim
- Threatening situations
- Resuscitation of an AIDS patient.
- Failure-to-stop laws and good samaritan behavior
- A desperate fight
- Patient confidentiality vs. the rights of ED personnel
- ED personnel's safety vs. a duty to treat
- Prehospital personnel's safety vs. a duty to treat
- Use of patient restraints
- Wilderness medicine.
- Ethical statements pertaining to medical care
- Ethical statements: Overview
- Hippocratic oath
- Oath of Louis Lasagna
- Emergency medical technician's oath
- Prayer of Maimonides
- Flight nurse's creed
- Declaration of Geneva
- American Medical Association's principles of medical ethics
- American Osteopathic Association's code of ethics
- Canadian Medical Association's code of ethics
- Autralian Medical Association's code of ethics
- American Nurses' Association's code for nurses
- Emergency Medical Technician's code of ethics
- Emergency Nurses Association's code of ethics
- Emergency Medicine Residents' Associaton's principles of medical ethics
- International Council of Nurses' code for nurses
- World Medical Association's international code of medical ethics
- American Hospital Association's patient's bill of rights
- Nuremberg code
- Declaration of Helsinki.
- American Medical Association's ethical guidelines for clinical investigation
- Regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the protection of human subjects
- Prehospital advance directives
- Arizona living wills and health care directives act
- Montana's comfort one protocol.