04913nam 2200721Ia 450 991014125810332120230801223315.01-280-77561-097866136860081-118-29212-X1-118-29215-41-118-29213-8(CKB)2670000000205663(EBL)945109(OCoLC)774213764(SSID)ssj0000677473(PQKBManifestationID)11437045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677473(PQKBWorkID)10694715(PQKB)10660356(MiAaPQ)EBC945109(DLC) 2012003991(MiAaPQ)EBC4033851(Au-PeEL)EBL945109(CaPaEBR)ebr10570727(Au-PeEL)EBL4033851(CaPaEBR)ebr11109411(CaONFJC)MIL368600(OCoLC)927507553(EXLCZ)99267000000020566320120127d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEthical problems in emergency medicine[electronic resource] a discussion-based review /John Jesus, ... [et al.]1st ed.Hoboken, N.J. Wiley20121 online resource (347 p.)Current topics in emergency medicineDescription based upon print version of record.0-470-67347-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 debate8: 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 sectionSection 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 hospital23: 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; IndexThis 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 discussiCurrent topics in emergency medicine.Emergency medicineMoral and ethical aspectsMedical ethicsEmergency medicineMoral and ethical aspects.Medical ethics.174.2/96025Jesus John927327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910141258103321Ethical problems in emergency medicine2083551UNINA