Law and Ethics in Intensive Care
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With complex legal and ethical dilemmas arising daily in intensive care medicine, it can be hard to know who to admit and when, the stage at which invasive management should be withdrawn, or who should even decide. Clinically focused, this book explores landmark rulings on controversies in critical care to aid your day-to-day decision making.

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With complex legal and ethical dilemmas arising daily in intensive care medicine, it can be hard to know who to admit and when, the stage at which invasive management should be withdrawn, or who should even decide. Clinically focused, this book explores landmark rulings on controversies in critical care to aid your day-to-day decision making.
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Dr Christopher Danbury is a Consultant Intensive Care Physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. With almost 30 years of experience as a Doctor, he graduated from St George's Hospital Medical School in 1990, before switching his focus to intensive care medicine. In 2002, Dr Danbury was appointed a consultant intensive care physician in one of the busiest District General Hospital Intensive Care Units in England. His research work focuses on bio-legal research, particularly decision making in the critical care unit. In 2005, Dr Danbury was appointed as Visiting Fellow in Health Law at the School of Law at the University of Reading, a post he still holds. He is an experienced expert witness, giving oral evidence regularly in the Court of Protection. Chris Newdick is the Professor of Health Law at the University of Reading. He is an advisor to the Thames Valley Priorities Committee, has served on the Medicines Commission and was a member of the Independent Review of Individual Patient Funding Requests in Wales. He is the author of Who Should We Treat? - Rights, Rationing and Resources. Alex is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers specialising in mental capacity and mental health law. He also writes extensively, has numerous academic affiliations, including as Visiting Lecturer and Wellcome Research Fellow at King's College London, and created the website www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk. Carl Waldmann is Consultant in ICM and Anaesthesia at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and Dean of the Faculty of Critical Care. Apart from his interests in the management of Head Injured patients in a DGH, the procurement and implementation of a Clinical Information System in ICU, his passion has been setting up and running an ICU follow-up clinic in Reading. From May 2007 to May 2009 he was President of the ICS, editor of Care of the Critically Ill and until 2004 the editor of JICS. Carl was also Chair of the section of Technology Assessment and Health Informatics [TAHI] of the ESICM until 2008. He was a member of the PACT editorial board of the ESICM and between 2015 and 2018 served as the Treasurer for the ESICM. Carl also has an interest in pre-hospital care and is club doctor for Leyton Orient FC.