Ethical problems in emergency medicine [[electronic resource] ] : a discussion-based review / / John Jesus, ... [et al.]
| Ethical problems in emergency medicine [[electronic resource] ] : a discussion-based review / / John Jesus, ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174.2/96025 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JesusJohn |
| Collana | Current topics in emergency medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics |
| ISBN |
1-280-77561-0
9786613686008 1-118-29212-X 1-118-29215-4 1-118-29213-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141258103321 |
| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ethical problems in emergency medicine : a discussion-based review / / John Jesus, ... [et al.]
| Ethical problems in emergency medicine : a discussion-based review / / John Jesus, ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174.2/96025 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JesusJohn |
| Collana | Current topics in emergency medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics |
| ISBN |
9786613686008
9781280775611 1280775610 9781118292129 111829212X 9781118292150 1118292154 9781118292136 1118292138 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820646803321 |
| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||