Clinical ethics in anesthesiology : a case-based textbook /
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- Informed consent: respecting patient autonomy
- Informed refusal: DNR orders in the patient undergoing anesthesia and surgery, and at the end of life
- Informed refusal: the Jehovah's Witness patient
- Surrogate decision-making
- Informed consent and the pediatric patient
- Do not resuscitate decisions in pediatric patients
- Consent in laboring patients
- Maternal-fetal conflicts: cesarian delivery on maternal request
- Consent for anesthesia for procedures with special societal implications: psychosurgery and electroconvulsive therapy
- Ethical use of restraints
- The use of ethics consultation regarding consent and refusal
- Consent and cultural conflicts: ethical issues in pediatric anesthesiologists' participation in female genital cutting
- Communitarian values in medical decision-making: Native Americans
- Informed consent for perioperative testing: pregnancy testing and other tests involving sensitive patient issues
- The principle of double effect in palliative care: euthanasia by another name?
- Surgical interventions near the end of life: 'therapeutic trials'
- Withholding and withdrawing life support in the intensive care unit
- Discontinuing pacemakers, ventricular assist devices and implanted cardioverter-defibrillators in end-of-life care
- Brain death
- Ethical issues in organ donation after cardiac death
- Revising the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: the role of physicians in shaping legislation
- Physician aid in dying and euthanasia
- Ethical considerations in interventional pain management
- Conjoining interventional pain management and palliative care: considerations for practice, ethics and policy
- Opioid therapy in addicted patients: background and perspective from the UK
- Opioid therapy in addicted patients: background and perspective from the US
- Ethics in anesthesiology research using human subjects
- Animal subjects research part I: do animals have rights?
- Animal subjects part II: ethics of animal experimentation
- Ethical function of human subjects review boards: a US perspective
- Research with vulnerable patients such as children and prisoners
- The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist
- Quality improvement initiatives: when is quality improvement actually a form of human subjects research?
- Conflicts of interest in research funding
- Publication ethics: obligations of authors, peer-reviewers and editors
- The impaired anesthesiologist: addiction
- The impaired anesthesiologist: sleep deprivation
- Ethical considerations regarding the disabled anesthesiologist
- The abusive and disruptive physician
- Sexual harrassment, discrimination and faculty-student intimate relationships in anesthesia practice
- Conflicts of interest: industry gifts to physicians
- Disclosure of medical errors in anesthesiology practice
- Physician conscientious objection in anesthesiology practice
- The ethics of expert testimony
- Ethical principles regarding physician response to disasters: pandemics, natural disasters and terrorism
- Triage in civilian mass casualty situations
- Triage and treatment of wounded during armed conflict
- Physician facilitation of torture and coercive interrogation
- Physician participation in execution.