Difficult Decisions in Surgical Ethics : An Evidence-Based Approach /
This book provides a detailed guide to the ethical considerations involved when making decisions in surgery. Chapters feature a uniform format, which feature a case that represents a real-life problem, discussion of the medical indications of that issue, the latest available medical solutions, and r...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- In the Beginning
- Importance of Formal Education in Medical Ethics in the XXIst Century
- What Makes Surgical Ethics Unique?
- Notable Ethical Sugeons
- Communication
- Transparency in Surgery
- Is Informed Consent Truly Informed? And Does It Matter?
- Shared Decision Making. "What would you do in my case, Doctor?"
- Obtaining Surgical Consent Under Duress. When Not to Operate?
- Goals of Care Discussions in High Risk Surgery.
- When Surgeons and Patients Disagree
- How to Deliver Bad News. A Family Post-mortem
- Surgical Empathy. - Surgical Education
- Teaching Surgical Ethics
- Training Residents: Disclosure to Patients, Communication During Awake Surgery
- Informed Consent of Patients Regarding Trainee Participation
- Can Professionalism be Taught During Residency?
- Autonomy In Residency: the Dual Role of the Academic Surgeon
- Medical Discrepancy/ Medical Error
- Concurrent Operations in Different ORs
- Disclosure of Surgical Errors
- Expert Witness Testifying Against Colleagues
- Cultural / Religious Diversity
- Acceptance of Refusal of Surgery due to Religious or Cultural Reasons
- Is it Inappropriate to use the Word "Death" when obtaining Surgical Consent?
- Bloodless Surgical Strategy for Jehovah's Witness Patients
- Surgery on the Incarcerated Patient
- Surgical Dilemmas in the Adult Patient
- Surgical Buy-in for Major Surgical Procedures
- Ethics of Caeserian Delivery on Maternal Request (CDMR)
- Fertility Sparing Surgery Instead of Definitive Cancer Resections
- Ethical Decision-Making in Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms, Elective or Emergent (Ruptured)
- Denial of Mechnical Assist Devices/Transplantation Due to Disability, Economics or Social Status
- Surgical Dilemmas in the Pediatric Patient / Family
- Changing Landscape of Surgical Ethics
- Management of Fatal Diseases in the Neonate
- Destination ECMO in the Pediatric Patient. (Pro/Con)
- ECMO as a Terminal Event
- Brain death in NICU/PICU
- Ethics of Fetal Interventions for Lethal Anomalies
- Critical Care
- Dealing with Families of Patients with severe Brain Injury: Turning off Support, Organ Donation
- Ethical Dilema when a Mechanical Assist Device is Futile
- Burned Beyond Recognition. Ethics of Care
- Do Not Resuscitate/ Palliative Care/ End of Life
- Peri-Operative DNR: An Ethical Dilema
- Approach to Palliative Surgery at End of Life
- Conflicts with Surrogate Decision Makers and Goals of Care
- Global Surgery
- Medical Missions to Developing Countries (Pro/Con)
- Rebuttal: The View From The Lake Tanganyika Floating Clinic
- Why is No Program Training "The Complete Surgical Missionary?"
- One Can Make a Difference in National Health Policy. The Transplant Program in China
- Surgical Innovation/ Research
- Ethical Questions of Surgical Trials
- Introducing New Techniques, Technology and Medical Devices
- Uterine Transplantation: More than Saving a Life.