Ethical problems in emergency medicine : a discussion-based review / John Jesus, ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jesus, John.

Series:

Current topics in emergency medicine.

Current topics in emergency medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Emergency medicine.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is designed to consolidate the relevant literature as well as the thoughts of professionals currently working in the field into a practical and accessible reference for the emergency medical technician, student, nurse, resident, and attending emergency physician. Each chapter is divided into four sections: case presentation, discussion, review of the current literature, and recommendations. Designed to serve simultaneously as a learning and reference tool, each chapter begins with a real case that was encountered in an ED setting. The case presentation is followed by a short discussi

Contents:

Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Section One: Challenging professionalism; 1: Physician care of family, friends, or colleagues; 2: The impaired physician; 3: Disclosure of medical error and truth telling; 4: Conflicts between patient requests and physician obligations; 5: Judgmental attitudes and opinions in the emergency department; 6: Using physicians as agents of the state; Section Two: End-of-life decisions; 7: Family-witnessed resuscitation in the emergency department: making sense of ethical and practical considerations in an emotional debate

8: Palliative care in the emergency department9: Refusal of life-saving therapy; 10: Revisiting comfort-directed therapies: death and dying in the emergency department, including withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; 11: Futility in emergency medicine; Section Three: Representing vulnerable populations; 12: The care of minors in the emergency department; 13: Chemical restraints, physical restraints, and other demonstrations of force; 14: Capacity determination in the patient with altered mental status; 15: Obstetric emergency: perimortem cesarean section

Section Four: Outside influence and observation16: Non-medical observers in the emergency department; 17: Religious perspectives on do-notresuscitate (DNR) documents and the dying patient; 18: Non-physician influence on the scope and responsibilities of emergency physicians; 19: Privacy and confidentiality: particular challenges in the emergency department; Section Five: Emergency medicine outside the emergency department; 20: Short-term international medical initiatives; 21: Disaster triage; 22: The emergency physician as a bystander outside the hospital

23: Military objectives versus patient interestsSection Six: Public health as emergency medicine; 24: Treatment of potential organ donors; 25: Mandatory and permissive reporting laws: conflicts in patient confidentiality, autonomy, and the duty to report; 26: Ethics of care during a pandemic; Section Seven: Education and research; 27: Practicing medical procedures on the newly or nearly dead; 28: Ethics of research without informed consent; Appendix: useful resources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613686008

9781280775611

1280775610

9781118292129

111829212X

9781118292150

1118292154

9781118292136

1118292138

OCLC:

774213764