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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lonchyna, Vassyl A. (Editor), Kelley, Peggy (Editor), Angelos, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.