Ethics in anaesthesia and intensive care / [edited by] Heather Draper, Wendy E. Scott.

Other author Draper, Heather.
Other author Scott, Wendy E.
Format Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh ; New York : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003.
Descriptionxii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Variant title Ethics in anesthesia and intensive care
Contents Consent and adult patients in anaesthesia and intensive care / Alan Aitkenhead -- Fitness to practise, self-regulation and clinical governance in anaesthesia / David Hatch -- Confidentiality, anaesthesia and intensive care / Catherine Hale -- Cultural relativism, tolerance and respect for autonomy / Andrew Fagan -- Ethical and legal issues affecting the treatment of children / Nicholas Pace -- Clinical research / Michael Harmer -- Research ethics / Richard Nicholson -- Evidence-based medicine and anaesthetics / Lucy Frith -- Maternal foetal conflicts and the anaesthetist's role / Wendy Scott -- Response to Scott / Heather Draper -- Resource allocation in critical care / Richard Wenstone -- Response to Wenstene [sic] / June Jones -- The nature of dilemmas in intensive care / June Jones -- Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining therapy and euthanasia / Heather Draper -- Brain death and the cadaveric organ donor / David Lamb -- The acceptability of routine testing for blood-borne communicable diseases / Rebecca Bennett -- Teaching and assessing medical ethics / Lisa Schwartz -- Ethical issues in private practice / Chris Barham -- Response to Barham / Tom Sorell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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